Ellie Maas Davis regularly reviews books for The Post & Courier, Charleston's daily newspaper.
This Is Where I Leave You. By Jonathan Tropper
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. By Charlie Huston.
The Puzzle King. By Betsy Carter.
The Foremost Good Fortune. By Susan Conley.
Three Stages of Amazement. By Carol Edgarian.
Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley. By Stephan Faris.
Some Dream for Fools. By Faïza Guène.
Censoring an Iranian Love Story. By Shahriar Mandanipour
THE RIGHT MISTAKE: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow. By Walter Mosley.
Hard Ground. Photographs by Michael O’Brien. Poems by Tom Waits.
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. By Robert V. Remini.
THE ENTIRE EARTH AND SKY: Views on Antarctica. By Leslie Carol Roberts.
Bordeaux: A Novel in Four Vintages. By Paul Torday.
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde. By Thomas Wright.