Two generations of women lose their innocence, while finding love and friendship, in this coming-of-age story that reflects Jamaica’s own bid for independence. Their family’s lineage follows Jamaica’s history from the Maroons,... Read More

In 1704 England, the work of “wisewomen” gives way to the emerging class of male physicians who seek to supplant, by decree or by force, these folk-healers, herbalists and midwives. Deborah Smith, the last in a long line of pagan... Read More

Culled from the collegiate fruits of a required freshman writing course, this collection of 38 student memoirs illustrates challenges, tragedies and revelations of those who stand at the threshold of adulthood and contemplate their... Read More