Two deserted women forge a lifelong bond based on disappointment and subverted ambitions in a maternity ward when faced childbirth without their betraying men. Their daughters the dual protagonists react quite differently to neurotic... Read More

Ira Foxglove is a fixer. He can repair a car engine in the wild with few tools. He can tinker with an uncooperative motorbike and get it running. His biggest challenge, however, is to fix his marriage and restore his family to... Read More

Following the trail of Lewis and Clark while researching this novel, the author came upon a white rock near Decision Point, the spot where a group of white explorers took the humble advice of Sacajawea, one of their interpreters and the... Read More

This lively coming-of-age memoir tells why the author, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn, decides to spend his career teaching African-American studies, a discipline in which white males have often been regarded as curiosities. His biography is... Read More

Lori Neiwert lost her twin Mike in a car accident. She was traveling in the middle of Canada and “I felt him die. I didn’t want to know that was what I was feeling but in my heart I knew. I have always said that I had two hearts, his... Read More

‘Everybody goes to Heaven, Eloise,’ he said.‘It’s just different for everybody.’ Ray’s story begins in his own heaven, which consists of a coveted spot in the Last Words group where everyone lies about their last words to... Read More

In the first of what is to be a series of mysteries with young Swedish immigrant Hilda Johansson as heroine, Agatha Award winner Dams’ (The Body in the Transcript) new novel is more reminiscent of Nancy Drew than of most contemporary... Read More

“Trauma (is) a crucible for developing excellence … through which we turn life’s wounds into gifts.” Sustaining that positive note throughout, Gravitz offers a guidebook for the families of those suffering from... Read More