Complete book coverage for Aug. 30, 2009

A mystery series featuring the globe-trotting adventurer is just the right antidote for grim headlines.

The author tells another uniquely American story with an imagined life of the Collyer brothers, but he falls short of a big challenge.

The one-time Chicago White Sox owner’s classic guide to gimmicks, crowd-pleasers and backroom dealings.

Dirac made vast contributions to the field of physics -- among them, the prediction of antimatter -- but was a socially elusive, difficult person to know.

As though struck by a lightning bolt, a married woman is at the mercy of her passions for a photographer in this story by a contemporary Irish master.

How much evidence do you need? Is the truth out there? New books consider our tireless fascination with unsolved mysteries.

The Nigerian writer’s third book is a collection of stories in which individuals struggle for freedom but are caught at the ends of invisible tethers.

A collection of poems that capture the subtleties of society and meaning in a pastoral setting.

The author of ‘Forever Barbie’ would be OK with another author citing her work, had the source been made clear.

The search for meaning takes many routes -- as “Traveling with Pomegranates,” ’In Cheap We Trust’ and ‘No Impact Man’ attest.

Fiction Weeks on list1.South of Broad by Pat Conroy (Nan A.

Fiction 1. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger($14.95) 2.