Its 1929 and fourteen black teenage boys from South Cairo Missouri leave town to join the Negro Baseball League. Two of these boys are Obie Poole and Madewell Brown. The team travels throughout the United States and one day in El Paso... Read More

Successful Minneapolis lawyer Elena Grant feels obligated to represent ex-husband/environmental lawyer Nick Ward when his latest antic—dumping more than a hundred live lobsters into the mayor’s swimming pool—gets him bounced into... Read More

Conventional wisdom has it that college-educated women account for the single largest segment of the book-buying market, with privileged thirty-somethings (single, married, or married-with-children) at the heart of this demographic: good... Read More

Asher’s name “sounds like the name of a dying thing,” declares his future love at their introduction. On the contrary, the title character of this novel is very much alive, though by story’s end he is intimately familiar with... Read More