Books & Media

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Michael Morpurgo Candlewick, $17, 64 pages, ages 5-10 Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo captivates readers with his superb retelling of the classic fable about greed. Life in Hamelin emerges through the voi...

Pam Houston, director of the UCD Creative Writing Program, will embark on a January book tour to promote "Contents May Have Shifted."It's easy to confuse author Pam Houston with the "other Pam," the one she created as the "fearless narrator" of h...

Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo captivates readers with his superb retelling of the classic fable about greed. Life in Hamelin emerges through the voice of an orphan boy who walks with a cane and scavenges for food and shelter.

1. The Drop by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch of the LAPD uncovers both the operations of a sadistic killer and a political conspiracy. (1 week on list)

That brainy Sacramento science writer-professor Judith Horstman is at it again, this time with her third brain-centric book. "The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love" is due Dec. 27 (J...

The authors of a new history book about the rural community of Rescue – between Folsom and Placerville – will have a gathering and book signing today.

The authors of a new history book about the rural community of Rescue – between Folsom and Placerville – will have a gathering and book signing today. "History of a Place Called Rescue" has maps, mining information and more than 800 photo...

Kali lives for the hunt. While at school one day , she makes friends with Skylar who is the school slut and a psychic. She isn't a slut, she just becomes enemy because she flirted with the wrong person. She meets Bethany who has a tattoo of a chubar...

Some of the best B books I have read this year and I know that the list is long. Hourglass Forgive My Fins

'Christmas Jars'Author: Jason F. WrightFormat: PaperbackPublished: Shadow Mountain; Oct. 2005Pages: 122Genre: Holiday fictionGrade: BSource: Personal copySynopsis: A journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons...