This is a true “popcorn movie”, the kind you put in your DVD player for a nice evening of “no thinking, just enjoying”. This is a Hollywood family movie, with 3 great stars, fancy costumes, beautiful scenery, great music, clean language and no overt sexual content.

A graphic sexual assault scene in the award-winning book has led to a school board member objecting to it being on the summer reading list for high school juniors.

Jim Albright worked as a prison guard through the last four years that Alcatraz operated as a federal penitentiary. He escorted the last inmate, No. 1,576, off the island on March 21, 1963. He's told his story in a new book, "Last Guard Out."

“If you want to be successful, here’s what you need to do. You don’t sit around and complain about it. You go out and do what you say you’re going to do.”

Two new books about Bonnie and Clyde are among events surrounding the 75th anniversary of a shoot-out between law enforcement officers and the Clyde Barrow gang.

Figuring out your own life is difficult enough. Add to that several generations, past and present, and the task is nearly impossible for Phoebe Lange in “The Memory Book” by Penelope J. Stokes.

If you want to know how forensic science can solve a murder investigation, read “Deja Dead” by Kathy Reichs.
Reichs’ books inspired the Fox television show “Bones”, but fans of the show who pick up the book expecting it to be like the show, should know a few things.
First, the book is set in Montreal, where Temperance Brennan has been living since splitting with her husband, Pete, about a year ago. Their daughter, Katy, is thinking about dropping out of college.
There’s no cute Agent Booth to trade one-liners with, no lab “squints” to form a pseudo-family. This is much grittier.
It was supposed to be routine: two city workers found bones near a traditional historic burial site. Tempe’s asked to go to the site and determine whether they are old bones from an old grave.

“The Freedom Plant: A Novel of New England Fishermen,” is about what Kevin McCormick calls “the glory days of commercial fishing in 1970s New England,” although the “glory days” included cutthroat competition from Soviet factory ships, frustrating government regulations and the daily peril of bad weather.