Kristin Hunter Lattany Now swinging on the far side of forty, best friends Patrice Barber and Cherry Hopkins came of age in the sixties, becoming single mothers by choice. So...

Anne Tyler A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more...

Alice Kuipers "Life on the Refrigerator Door" by Alice Kuipers is a unique and moving contemporary fiction novel that is told entirely through notes exchanged between a mother and her...

Celeste Ng   Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the...

Alexandra Kennedy Kennedy shares her own story of facing the loss of a parent and offers innovative strategies for healing and transformation. June 21, 1991 by HarperOne

Sue Miller   For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and...

Belinda Luscombe A smart and concise guide to staying together that draws on scientific findings, expert advice, and years in the marital trenches to explain why marriage is better for...

Anya Von Bremzen A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963,...

Joshua Henkin It's the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives at Graymont College in New England. Here he meets Carter Heinz, with whom he develops a...

David Clarke, PhD It's not news to say that men and women are different...what's worth discussing is how to deal with those differences. Men Are Clams, Women Are Crowbars looks...

Anne Tyler Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. He has seven daughters and a warmhearted wife, but as he journeys into the gray area of middle...

Anne Brener “It is hard to work through one’s grief when there are so many cover-ups and so many different kinds of denial at work within the culture. And that...