Editor Pick: Books

New book, 'The Essence of Lean,' explores core of lean business methodology.

Does Joel Selvin's 'Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hell's Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day', maintain a proper perspective on the events that have made the concert notorious?

New book, 'Trusting Your Inner Physician,' offers self-prescription for greater happiness and success

Fredrik Backman's 'And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer': "It turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth."

"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."

A kid dressed as a clown and an adult killer clown's paths cross on Halloween night.

'Digital Selling' by Grant Leboff is canny, readable, and authoritative guide to selling in the transformed digital environment. Packed with strategies, it's a must-read for anyone in sales and marketing.

"I think a novelist has to feel a bond with all their primary characters, has almost to love them, in spite of or perhaps even because of their flaws. Unless you feel them deeply, they never truly come alive."

Ransom Stephens’ 'The Left Brain Speaks, The Right Brain Laughs' is a cleverly written, irreverent take on neuroscience. But it's also illuminating — and the science is real.

New book, 'No Such Thing as Death,' teaches people not to grieve death but surrender to the divine.