By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe” by Chris Taylor; Basic Books ($28.99, 448 pages) ——— “How Star Wars Conquered The Universe” by...

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “The Abduction” by Jonathan Holt; HarperCollins, NY (457 pages, $26.99) ——— In Jonathan Holt’s first book, he introduced readers to Capt....

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “World of Trouble” by Ben H. Winters; Quirk Books ($14.95, 328 pages) ——— How would you behave the end of the world? In “World of Trouble,”...

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) WASHINGTON — In “Enduring Courage” John F. Ross aims to revive the memory of World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, who was also an early racecar...

By Rick Bentley The Fresno Bee (MCT) Ivor Davis knows exactly where he was 50 years ago today—hanging out with The Beatles. As the West Coast bureau chief for the London Daily Express, Davis was...

By Tish Wells McClatchy Washington Bureau (MCT) “Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Plot for Global Revolution” by Giles Milton; Bloomsbury Press, NY (400 pages, $28) ——— If...

By Carolyn Kellogg Los Angeles Times (MCT) “Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932” by Francine Prose; Harper ($26.99) ——— “Police! Open Up!” is regularly heard at the door of the...

Flipping through the channels the other day while at my parents house I stopped on a channel where they were talking about an author with a plan to destroy people’s lives-How to be Anorexic. The...