eemed accidental, a respected pediatrician is charged with murdering a man who had been his friend. In those intervening years, the pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Weber, has married his friend's widow an
Two people, two faiths, one hope, one destiny . . . A white woman and a black man, stranded in the desert in a land laid waste by an undeclared war. She is a campaigning academic and believes in just
On the brink of her fortieth birthday, Katie Olmstead is in no mood to celebrate. Still tending bar to support a stalled art career, she continues to struggle with her temperamental teenage son, C.J.,
All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens. The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is as
Rand Taber, one of The Times'"25 artists under 25 to watch" has painter's block. He needs to get out of New York and work again. Introduced to Harris Montrose, an artistic giant and eccentric who has
While investigating the death of a teen movie star, Captain Josie Corsino has to sort through a myriad of suspects and risks losing her career, family, and life.
Police detective Irene Chavez, newly returned to a small town in Puget Sound with her fourteen-year-old-son, finds herself in the middle of a mystery as she investigates what appears to be a sailing a
A memoir about an illicit love affair that the reader comes to realize is different than the author confesses. Alfred Buber is a pillar of his community, a respected man with a secret, and a secret li
In 1988 Alan Ripley is a successful suburban lawyer, happy at home as well as at work, with a deep sense of gratitude at having found his way to this place. Given his history, he has every reason to f
When Doll, a British painter just out of art school at Slade, arrives in New Mexico in 1925, she is certain only of her faith in the man who invited her: social philosopher Abe Bronstein, who has lef
Planet of the Dates follows the exploits of Phil Corcoran, a girl-crazed Milwaukee teen stumbling toward adulthood in the summer of 1980. Phil's personal transition coincides with a cultural shift: f
Dwight Lockwood, son of the Secretary of Defense, crafts his life under his father's shadow. Brought up in a world of family secrets and taboos, Dwight struggles to create an independent psychic life
In the year 1938, when Russia was paralyzed by Stalin's terror, a small state archives in Moscow received an old manuscript called Revelation of Fire that had in earlier days been kept secret in a mo
In steamy, corruption-ridden Manila, at the height of Ferdinand Marcos' brutal regime, two unlikely young lovers come together: Rue Caldwell, the wife of an American counter-insurgency specialist and
Pushed by his grandson Seabold, William, dying of old age, describes his life in a diary, where he unlocks disturbing memories about his childhood, fears about the future, and impressions of the peopl
