My Month in Books After a slower month in June, I thought the downward trend might continue through the summer, but that didn't end up b...

We are fully in summer mode here now. We began the month in North Carolina visiting one side of the family and ended the month in New York w...

One day, when she is going through some of her belongings from childhood, nineteen-year-old Polly is suddenly flooded with a second set of m...

When Omri's best friend Patrick gives him an Indian figurine for his ninth birthday, Omri is vaguely disappointed, thinking his friend i...

Armand, a homeless old Parisian man, has never wanted to be tied down by traditional family life.  When three children and their mother move...

Hero, whose mother wrote a famous parenting book and raised several academically gifted children, is the youngest in her family, and she alm...

Miyax, also known as Julie, who has been forced into a marriage she does not want, decides to run away into the Alaskan tundra. There she ta...