A historical novel about the Alcott’s financial difficulties, abolitionist views, and her friendships with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo...

A fragmented autobiography about adolescence, coming of age, and sexuality.

In this 1927 novel, a priest and his friend set up a diocese in the New Mexico Territory.

Comfort and compassion from the people of Newfoundland, after a 9/11 jet is stranded.

West was the Executive Mansion’s chief usher from 1941 through 1969, from the Franklin Roosevelts through the Richard Nixons.

A harmonious home is turned upside down when a couple’s last child is born.

A socialite lobotomizes her niece to protect family secrets.

Fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar; editor-in-chief at Vogue; the Met.

Prisoners revolt during a hunger strike, while a romance brews between a warden and an inmate.

A biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens; Mark Twain’s wife.

An impoverished student commits two murders and confesses.

Socialite; activist; and Harry Truman’s Ambassador to Luxembourg, she was the Hostess with the Mostest.