Family relationships are prime topics in this week’s small, but interesting, list of books.  From finding out dark secrets about family, to rethinking family bonds, to the intricate workings of blended families, many of these books examing the strings attached to the ties that bind.   All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth Seventeen-year-old Charlie seeks to become a member of an elite secret society…

This week’s nonfiction presents Lincoln’s last murder trial before his presidency, the Flint water crisis, a critical reading of 20th-century Cherokee writers, a journalist’s battle to expose racism and class corruption, and some political observations.  On the fiction side, murder and mayhem abound.   All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin When her golden-boy son posts a controversial photograph of a scholarship student online, triggering…

For some readers there is nothing better than a good adventure, where the main character is on some type of mission and meets lots of obstacles and danger along the way.  Two authors on this week’s list personify the genre – Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy.  However, you may realize that Tom Clancy died in 2013.  Mike Maden is one of several authors that has…