A boy growing up in postwar Barcelona finds that sometimes loving books can be dangerous. Comparable to the wonderful Club Dumas, but so much more.

Everyone's favorite, windpassing hound is back, this time involved with robbery, balloons, and clowns.

Daughters come to terms with their mothers' memories and expectations in these lovely, true stories of how they all came together in the kitchen.

The latest trend in cooking is non-cooking. Our favorite local genius is back to tell us how to make it taste great even when it's raw.

Boris Akunin's popular detective Erast Fandorin is back, this time solving theft and murder on the high seas.

Craftswoman extraordinare, Byatt works dark magic in these tales of imperminance, fraility, and the failures of the body.

Alright, we are all tired of how men for some reason claim they can't explain themselves, even though they have had the last few thousand years to try, but let's give them one, last chance.

Babs' favorite, Chaon, follows up his two beautiful and eloquent short story collections with a novel about identity, and the stoicism behind so many, seemingly small, lives.

A selection of savvy observations on urban ecology set in our own backyards. A look at Chicago's unique Urban ecology, just as the weather gets nice enough for you to look for yourselves.