Books
The Book of Wonders
Colm Tóibín and Joyce Carol Oates agree that The Book of Wonders is a wonder. Tóibín says that the book contains “Deftly controlled narratives which are, by turns, darkly humorous, teasingly satirical and wickedly erudite. Oates says the stories are “Richly inventive and deftly executed.”
Today is not your day
Biotech entrepreneur Tess Whitford has built her life around the certainty of science and logic, and she thrives on solving problems. But when one of her dearest friends exhausts the reaches of medicine while fighting cancer and grabs onto the hope...
Today is not your day
With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters—every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her sharply observant but always compassionate gaze...
Girl Sent Away
Terrified by his daughter’s increasingly reckless behavior, Toby Sedgwick takes a tough love approach and enrolls Ava in Mount Hope, a wilderness behavioral camp for troubled teens. Ava quickly realizes that the camp is little more than a prison...
Gut First, Science Second
President Trump has launched a barrage of rulings that favor the profitability of corporations at the expense of children and the environment. He is poisoning our air and water, resulting in collateral damage not only to children and the environment but to senior citizens...
Hippie Inc
The original hippies weren’t baby boomers or freeloaders or communists or a passing fad with few lasting accomplishments. They were an amazing group of highly intelligent, creative, innovative, and industrious freethinkers.
Girls I know
In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman—grad school dropout, sperm donor, and holder of other odd jobs—survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In this tragedy’s wake, Walt is forced to contemplate what...
Twelve Weeks
Very healthy for most of her life, at age fifty-six Karen Lee Sobol received a shocking diagnosis. A rare incurable blood cancer raged through her. Unwilling to accept conventional chemotherapy, she chose to…
The Bookie's SOn
The year is 1960 and the place is the Bronx. All twelve-year-old Ricky Davis wants to do is play stickball with his friends and flirt with the building super’s daughter. But when his father crosses gangster Nathan…
Annie Begins
At almost 29, Annie Thompson is as brilliant in business as she is disastrous in relationships. It’s the dawn of the dot-com boom, and Annie is determined to make it big. But her single-minded focus on work is put to…
Veronica's Nap
Veronica Berg has everything she needs to make her dream of becoming a painter come true: a charming home studio in Provence, a hard-working husband and a nanny who watches her two-year-old twins…
