It happens every month. About eight to ten days before your period starts, you notice the symptoms. Maybe you cry for no apparent reason. Maybe you’re anxious or short tempered or depressed…Then your period appears and miraculously,... Read More

Short story collections are tricky beasts, mixing many lives in a unifying style, be the tone wry, solemn, anxious, or deadpan. In this, her second collection after The Circles I Move In, Lefer might be narrating a museum’s audiotape,... Read More

When narrator Frederick Quist phones his recently deceased father’s home, Quist, “half expecting him to answer the phone” gets Isabel instead, “his fourth and last wife, by whom he had had four girls in a vain attempt to replace... Read More

Here’s a book for women of a certain age who know they aren’t just cars whose “end value [is] based on an odometer reading.” Brings and Winter disarmingly and persuasively contend that a woman has the right to be openly and... Read More

“Never for one second have you been face to face with anyone in your life. It’s always been face to No-face…face there, Space Here.” Meaning, Harding is pointing first to his own self while speaking, and then to a different... Read More

“Your divorce doesn’t have to damage your children,” writes the author in this practical guide for divorced parents. Every year in the United States more than one million children see their parents divorce. Here, in... Read More

Schneider, acclaimed creator of the nationally syndicated Eek & Meek comic strip, writes and illustrates this hilarious tale about his family’s dog Louie. Given the tremendous damage levied against the household furniture and... Read More

Ben wished he could trade in his sister, Allison, for a happy-go-lucky puppy! While Ben and his friends were having a snowball fight after school, Allison showed up in the middle of it. When his friends made fun of Allison for being in... Read More