Irving Stone’s ADVERSARY IN THE HOUSE; a historical novel about Eugene Debs, a 1920 Presidential candidate, and relentless advocate of Union reform.

Shirley MacLaine’s DANCING IN THE LIGHT; after garnering an Oscar for Terms of Endearment, a celebrated return to Broadway in a one-woman show, and turning fifty, the actress looks into her past.

Barbara Pym’s EXCELLENT WOMEN; in 1950s England, a religious, gadfly spinster interferes in the lives of others.

Justin G. Turner’s and Linda Levitt Turner’s MARY TODD LINCOLN: HER LIFE IN LETTERS; ambitious, difficult, and tragic: a First Lady’s correspondence, 1840-1882.