Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e
Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Black Marks | ‘In this wonderfully intelligent novel, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte explores a young woman’s complicated struggle to come to terms with her fractured past.
Catherine Jones | Wonder Girls | In 1928, Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda. In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a nurse at a maternity
Hazel Lin | The Moon Vow | Dr. Lien-Hua Wu, an Asian gynecologist, attempts to solve a patient’s sexual problems with her husband. She soon discovers the truth through a grueso
Stacey Donovan | Dive | Sometimes questions have no answers. Fifteen-year old Virginia Dunn discovers this after her dog is run over, her dad is diagnosed with a mysterious i
Helga Sandburg | The Wheel of Earth | Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve
Rita Mae Brown | The Hand That Cradles The Rock | As a poet, Brown has a decidedly tin ear. First published in 1971 and 1973 as The Hand that Cradles the Rock and Songs to a Handsome Woman, these poem
Bernard De Voto | Mountain Time | Mr. De Voto at a lower literary level, if a more surely successful one, with a surgeon’s story and a love story sustained by a fair amount of emotiona
