Throughout these stories, emotional storms gather in original, biting scenes. In China Girl: And Other Stories, Ho Lin examines the unease of living with memories: some brutal,... Read More

Sharp and sensual, Roxie and Fred is a provocative love story that explores a May-December relationship. Is it ever too late to fall in love again? On her way into her eighties,... Read More

During the 1960s, many Jews began immersing themselves in Buddhism, Shamanism, Sufism, Hinduism, yoga, Christianity, Taoism, witchcraft, among other traditions.. In "Crossing... Read More

Over the centuries, Americans have held conflicted feelings toward North America’s vast, treacherous, majestic wilderness, headed up by the cocksure, heavily-armed desire to... Read More

The Gold Rush is over, and San Francisco teems with entrepreneurs of all stripes—shady and otherwise. Set in 1851, after the height of the Gold Rush, Ken Salter’s novel on... Read More

As voices from America’s different political camps vie for supremacy, explanations about why our society contains the imbalances and injustices that it does often rely on... Read More

In 1945, two young boys survive World War II and begin a life-long friendship. Franz, blond and fair-skinned, is an orphan child of Nazi Germany. He finds a nearly dead boy,... Read More