Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising new titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider in December.

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

Columnist Donna Liquori recognizes end-of-year book lists are aplenty, but she includes "Orbital," "Layers," poetry by Leonard Cohen among her top picks ...