If Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife," was based on love, her follow-up calls on much darker fare: jealousy, possessiveness, immaturity and dishonesty.

The "Young Jesus Chronicles," a book of cartoons created by Framingham friends, will soon join the publisher of "Dilbert," "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side."

After years coping with her own personal losses, Susan A. Berger has devoted her second career as a psychologist to helping others turn their grief into growth.

Long before Edward Cullen of the "Twilight" series and Bill Compton of HBO's "True Blood," there was the original vampire, Bram Stoker's Prince Dracula, in the gothic horror novel "Dracula."

Tammy Jo Trask comes from a long line of witches who have drawn power from the earth. Their abilities appear at 17, but late bloomer Tammy Jo, 23, is only now realizing hers. Most of the time, her spells do more harm than good.

Readers familiar with Hornby's previous books will notice several recurring themes. He writes about fanaticism and dysfunctional relationships as he did in "Fever Pitch"...and "High Fidelity."

In 1933, Theo Mykolayenko and his family fled to Canada from their home in the Ukraine, a land ravaged by starvation under Stalin's regime.

Wine writer George M. Taber has turned his sights on wine tourism, examining 12 regions on six continents.

If you Googled Howard Dean, rogue cops, Satchel Paige and China's Cultural Revolution what would possibly come up? Only one thing, the Concord Festival of Authors.

Talk show host Craig Ferguson also happens to be a fine writer. Granted, "American on Purpose" won't come as much of a surprise to any reader who's already a Ferguson fan. For four and a half years on his late-night show, he has regularly drawn on his full and tumultuous life to nourish his monologues as well as the intimate way he connects with his viewers.