Honore de Balzac | Seraphita | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv
Kate Carroll De Gutes | The Authenticity Experiment | The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life, essays from Kate’s critically-acclaimed blog, has been called “a pilgrim’s
Rose Franken | Intimate Story | The petticoated pitfalls of the woman alone, afraid to trespass on her children’s lives, unsure of her own, this has of course the expected womanly wa
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | A Love Affair | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was not only a sculptor; she was a patron of the arts who founded the Whitney Museum in New York. She is also remembered f
George W. Morrison | Out From It All | Kera McLain has known since her youngest years that she’s a lesbian. Despite her oppressive father and acquiescing mother, Kera explores her orientati
Cat Cora | Cooking As Fast As I Can | “AffectingÂ….as warm and comforting as a home-cooked meal” (People), a no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage–and
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Lyn Gardner | Mistletoe | Four-year-old Diana Clarke sends her wish to Santa Claus, but lost in the lining of a sack it isn’t discovered for thirty years. Now, Santa has a prob
