Webster County Library

Paperback books of particular interest.    

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.    

In early-20th-century America, two powerful men were engaged in a contest to possess the world’s most remarkable watch.    

A mysterious Fabergé egg encodes secrets at the heart of Danielle Trussoni’s second tale of evil fallen angels..    

Peter Dimock’s narrator, haunted by the treatment of political detainees, writes to a former Bush administration official.    

Anne Perry’s novel “Midnight at Marble Arch” is a sweeping and scandalous exposé of sexual brutality amid the upper classes.    

New books by Chip Walter, Jesse J. Prinz, Torkel Klingberg and Ray Kurzweil.    

The theoretical physicist Lee Smolin examines the role of time in the universe.    

In André Aciman’s novel, an alienated immigrant grad student befriends a volatile immigrant hack.    

The Polish singer Vera Gran survived World War II, but at a heavy price.    

Fiction meets history in Ismail Kadare’s novel.    

David Sedaris, the humor essayist who calls his work “realish,” is at No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list this week, with “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls.”    

Helen Oyeyemi can’t remember when she started writing.    

Ramona Ausubel’s fantastical story collection traces a cycle of transformation: from love to conception to gestation to birth.    

The centenary of H. G. Wells’s book that started a hobby and continues to inspire war-game designers.    

Claire Messud’s latest novel depicts a thwarted artist bewitched by a boy and his parents.    

This biography of William Colby, onetime director of the Central Intelligence Agency, reveals a spy who could blend in anywhere.    

David Rohde shows the consequences of raising U.S.A.I.D. budgets and cutting its staff.    

What sports taught her about raising a family

Plus, Spielberg is directing 'American Sniper' and send a haiku to Mars!