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Here are some of the authors visiting Triangle bookstores this week.

Children’s Books:  There’s just a little time left to explore the natural world before summer heat strikes. While new green beckons, find inspiration too from new picture books that offer opportunities to see nature in new ways.

book review:  John Irving’s 13th novel, “In One Person,” has plenty to offer fans and critics alike.

‘Silver Sparrow’ by Tayari Jones features the relationship between two sisters, one the ‘outside’ child of their father.

How many ways can you say “build fire – cook food”? Must be a lot. Every summer brings a new stack of books on grilling and barbecue. We took a minute to smoke over some of this year’s offerings.

Sure, we’ve all got a skeleton in the family closet. But Geoffrey C. Ward’s is particularly haunting.

Short Takes:  Linda Rodriguez delivers a lively, perceptive look at a woman rebuilding her life in “Every Last Secret.”

Reynolds Price, the prolific writer and Duke professor who rose above the paralysis that kept him in pain for the last 25 years of his life, died before finishing his memoirs.

In “Drop Dead Healthy” A.J. Jacobs describes taking the Staten Island Ferry en route to the starting line of his first triathlon. A passenger notices Jacobs’ duffel bag not because it is camouflage patterned but because the camouflage colors are red and pink.

The author who told us more than we ever thought there was to know about cod (“Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World”) and salt (“Salt: A World History”) is back with a more traditional biography.

book review:  When a strong scholar turns his attention to the home front, it can be both enlightening and daunting. We might come to understand, more insightfully, where we are and how we got here. Chances are good, though, we’ll also discover that the challenges lying beyond the horizon are more imposing than we believed.

Brief reviews of some recent releases.

Wake County doesn’t think the erotic trilogy has staying power. Johnston just ordered it. Durham has a waiting list to read it.

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan. (Vintage) Jake Marlowe – a wry, lustful, centuries-old werewolf – has slipped into an existential crisis in Duncan’s playfully brainy novel.

Vanessa Williams could have easily written a memoir at several points over the last 30 years.

“Home,” Toni Morrison’s new novel, is smaller in scope than her previous works. But there’s depth in this 147-page story, which is so stripped of extraneous action and detail that it treads tantalizingly close to allegory.

Best-selling author John Grisham visited A. B. Combs Elementary School, where his daughter Shea Grisham teaches, to speak to students about his newest children's book, Theodore Boone: The Accused.

Mysteries:  To borrow the TV pitchman lingo sprinkled through this book, “Fun House” is “Jersey Shore” meets “Big Brother” meets Dudley Do-Right.

A look at some of the authors visiting Triangle bookstores this week.