With wit and emotional drive, a family lawyer sensitively reveals the changing laws regarding marriage in the modern era. The definition of family has changed over the years.... Read More

Complex characters grapple with loneliness in the wake of tragedy in this author’s emotion-driven tenth novel. “She had lied when she told him there were no ghosts. There... Read More

It’s present-day in the small town of Fulton, North Carolina, but readers get more than just an accounting of day-to-day goings on at the Pine Haven Retirement Center, where... Read More

“Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn’t live very long,” observes the narrator of Heading Out to Wonderful, a lyrical... Read More

"The Aleppo Codex" is part historical exposé, part international thriller, and part meditation on the passions awakened by religion and religious artifacts. In this book, Matti... Read More

In his humorous new book about his life with six felines, Tarte writes, “By then I had long since recovered from my early misconception that cats were either devious creatures... Read More

Frank W. Dixon, the narrator of Ted Heller’s satirical novel Pocket Kings, is not someone you want to play a lot of poker with. He’s really good at it. He is also not... Read More

Journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood’s book encourages thinking outside the Wonder bread version of US parenting. "How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm" (the baby is kept in a carrier... Read More

There is properly no history, only biography. Admired for his bestsellers, a novel*, Gap Creek,* and a biography of Daniel Boone, Robert Morgan subscribes to Ralph Waldo... Read More

“When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign.” In Hillary Jordan’s dystopian novel When She Woke, Hannah Payne is... Read More

Marriage counselors might consider offering a copy of this text to their clients. Fathers donning aprons to cook for their families so that busy working mothers don’t have to... Read More

"Wicked Bugs" is a good example of what a natural science book should do: that is, integrate many different disciplines—history, biology, chemistry, medicine, and art—into... Read More