Genres

Career coach and expert on life transitions Joan Tabb has a new book, 'Building Blocks for the New Retirement'. Patricia Gale chatted with the author about the best ways to head into a retirement filled with joy and meaning. Don't call it retirement, Tabb said. Call it revitalment.

'Hekla's Children' by James Brogden is a stylish dark fantasy novel that begins with the disappearance of four British schoolchildren.

In his first book, 'In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's', Joseph Jebelli, a British neuroscientist, has the optimistic view that we may be 10-20 years out from a preventative medication for Alzheimer's.

In Christine Mangan's 'Tangerine,' madness, murder, and betrayal are brought forth by an exotic yet ominous landscape.

The noted Serbian author muscles this Kafkaesque short novel into the war-is-absurd literary tradition in one tremendous 183-page paragraph.

'The Small Things That End The World' by Jeanette Lynes is a remarkable and beautiful book describing both the external and internal journey three women travel over the course of three generations.

Joan Tabb's new book, 'Building Blocks for the New Retirement,' is a step-by-step guide to a meaningful and rewarding retirement.

In 'The Word Is Murder' Anthony Horowitz has created something unique and fun. A murder mystery which will have you blurs the lines between reality and fiction until they no longer exist.

In this novel the prizewinning Spanish author skillfully weaves minutely imagined personal stories into the wide sweep of history. One gets the sense Árbol has gazed long and deeply into the human soul, found little redeeming there, and nonetheless felt compelled to lay it all out for us in glorious, gritty, and sometimes gory detail.

'Lagos Noir' from editor Chris Abani may not be the book the Nigerian tourist industry wants you to read as an inducement to come visit their country, but it sure is a lot of fun to read.