We may be biased, but our top pick for this week is companion to the PBS series, “The Great American Read.”  The Book of Books presents all 100 novels with fascinating information about each book, author profiles, a snapshot of the novel’s social relevance, film or television adaptations, other books and writings by the author, and little-known facts. Also included are themed articles about banned books,…

Almost weekly there are new publications portraying our politically polemic climate.  We don’t offer them all, but a few are on this week’s list.  From a Presidential Twitter Library to Judge Jeanine, you are sure to find something with which to agree or to be offended.   Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou recounts…

This week’s list offers several new science fiction books with dystopias, apocalypses, plauges and viruses, and even alien abductors.   In addition, there are some nonfiction books covering such topics as the worst sea disaster in U. S. Naval history,  Americans in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq,  Al Capone and Eliot Ness, and the reading brain in a digital world.   Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu…