Rick Riordan, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-11097-5 Powerful writing about a palpable evil distinguishes Edgar, Anthony and Shamus award-winner Riordan's fourth Tres Navarre novel.

In April, children's book publisher Scholastic, the company that brought Harry Potter to America, flew San Antonio author Rick Riordan to Bologna, Italy. There, Riordan's job was to help explain ...

I still have very fond memories of my local branch library in San Antonio. It was a form of magic that you could go into this building, pick books, and they would just let you leave with them, read ...