A boy and a girl meet, fall in love, move away, and make a happy life despite difficult circumstances.

Newark, New Jersey tries to beat back the polio epidemic during the summer of 1944.

The daughter of Jackie Robinson recalls “living” through the tenuous times of the Civil Rights movement.

Micah Mortimer’s particularly planned life is disrupted when his girlfriend drops him; then, an adolescent appears, and claims to be...

Growing up privileged in a fractured family; the author’s final book.

A former American wife and mother turned Buddhist, explains how to turn established patterns of suffering into second nature ease.

Tormented by gender conflicts, “Polly” gives way to “Carl”.

Sloppy advice, poor planning, and the wrath of the Amazon nearly kills the former president, during a six-month expedition.

A daughter tends to her parent when he contracts Alzheimer’s disease.

An unlikely romance between a Southern writer, and a Polish woman who holds a horrifying secret.

A potpourri of people who influenced the writer’s work — and life.

A 1906 San Francisco earthquake catapults a roughneck into a wealthy shipping magnate; book one of six.