Webster County Library

The author of “Hollywood Wives” and, most recently, “The Power Trip,” believes “The Great Gatsby” is the best love story ever. Fitzgerald, she says, had sexual chemistry down.

Susan Straight’s characters have fled to California.

These four stories capture the pathos of life in the Internet age.

The American anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon defends his decades of work with an indigenous group in the Amazon.

Garry Wills maintains that the Roman Catholic priesthood has arrogated to itself powers unimagined by Jesus and his disciples.

André Brink imagines the life of a slave who was owned by one of his ancestors.

Paula Byrne’s biography uses everyday objects to explore influences on Austen’s work.

Stories about women dealing with shortages (of housing and more) by the Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Almost half a century after his death in 1967, the folk singer Woody Guthrie hits the extended hardcover fiction list with the novel “House of Earth,” new at No. 20.

Charles Joseph Scarborough, known to almost everyone as “Joe,” is a man of many parts.

In “Ike and Dick,” Jeffrey Frank writes about the strange relationship that would help shape America’s foreign and domestic agenda for much of the 20th century.

How an early plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was foiled.

In “Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism,” John Burt highlights the difficulties Lincoln confronted in steering between philosophical principle and practical politics.

A reader responds to a recent review of Ros Barber’s “Marlowe Papers.”

A reader responds to a recent review of Charles R. Morris’s “Dawn of Innovation.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “The Pinecone.”

A reader responds to a recent review of “The Lady and Her Monsters.”