Aberdeen District Library

Vietcong guerrillas capture a female reporter in this vivid Vietnam War novel.

Mystery novels by Jo Nesbo, Cara Black, Simon Lelic and Robert Goddard.

Novels by Dominick Dunne, Sadie Jones, Melanie Benjamin, Brian Hart and Elizabeth Kostova.

The boldness and the folly of the explorers who sought the Northwest Passage.

A journalist’s adventures in the world of taxidermy, where she observes the art of incising, skinning, sculpturing and reassembling.

Work has become central to most people’s self-conception. Why does fiction have so little to say about it?

With an assist from others’ quotations, David Shields argues that our deep need for reality is not being met by the old and crumbling models of literature.

A science writer addresses the question: What makes a sage?

This “character driven” account of two centuries of religious combat is the best recent history of the Crusades.

A riveting account of the flawed leadership, bad luck and virulent personalities that led to the 2006 murder of an entire Iraqi family by American soldiers.

A documentary approach to Anne Frank’s life and diary; and a novel about Jewish refugee children during World War II.

More children’s books reviewed.

An entertaining, graphic-novel style account of Amelia Earhart’s stay in Newfoundland before she crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.

Paperback books of particular interest.

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

As Newsweek’s Jerusalem bureau chief from 2001 to 2004, Joshua Hammer “covered Iraq extensively, embedding with United States troops as the insurgency spiraled out of control.”

As death draws near, Chang-rae Lee’s heroine, a Korean War orphan who now lives in New York, sets off for Europe to look for her wayward son.

New collections of classic comics, including “Peanuts,” “Bloom County” and “Popeye.”