Carolyn Alessio

MIDNIGHTS: A Year With the Wellfleet Police By Alec Wilkinson Ruminator Books, 200 pages, $14 paper Don't expect accounts of shootouts in this chronicle of a year spent on the...

MAN AND WIFE IN AMERICA By Hendrik Hartog Harvard, 408 pages, $29.95 Published just in time for the wedding season, "Man and Wife in America" is more about affadavits than...

BETSY-TACY By Maud Hart Lovelace, illustrations by Lois Lenski HarperTrophy, 122 pages, $5.95 paper Though first published 60 years ago, this children's book presents girls' friendships in a timeless, unsentimental...

Cybill Disobedience By Cybill Shepherd with Aimee Lee Ball Harper collins, 294 pages, $26 The most startling parts of Cybill Shepherd's new autobiography are not her revelations about sex with...

SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN: Women Writers and the Art of Survival Edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer University of Georgia Press, 221 pages, $16.95 paper Not many...

LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET By Rainer Maria Rilke New World Library, 98 pages, $15 In 1903, poet Rainer Maria Rilke began to receive letters from an aspiring writer named...

TOWER By Bill Henderson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 215 pages, $22 When author Bill Henderson decided to build a wooden tower in Maine several years ago using only simple tools,...

SUBURBAN NATION By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck North Point Press, 289 pages, $30 In this vigorous and detailed critique of suburbia, town planners Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk...

MILES AND ME By Quincy Troupe University of California Press, 189 pages, $19.95 Many memoirs of friendships with famous people tend toward the sycophantic and predictable, but Quincy Troupe's "Miles...

MY SENSE OF SILENCE By Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois Press, 158 pages, $23.95 Author and professor Lennard Davis grew up as the hearing child of deaf parents. This...