Stuck in a long, stale marriage, Doc fantasizes about their young, perky border, and Lola grieves for their long-lost dog.

An itinerant worker encounters an order of nuns who believes he was sent by God to build a new chapel.

A family accommodates to socialite society.

A book for caregivers.

After a father is injured in an accident, his son enters skating competitions to turn around the family’s fortunes.

The author's agent-husband gets her the literary fame she covets--despite years of secret, serious illness.

A husband's suicide, rejection from the showbiz industry, bankruptcy and rebound.

A look into the thoughts of Colin Powell and Dick Cheney during the first Bush Administration.

A perfectly proper English nanny disrupts a staid household.

A St. Bernard is abducted, beaten, and sent to the Yukon.

Brand new to her school, a teacher discovers troubled students–and teachers.

Widow; long-reigning Louisiana congresswoman; ambassador to the Vatican.