After his father is murdered, Jimmy Dolan returns to the town where his affair with his high school teacher ended with an island in flames and the death of a classmate, seeking to make peace with thos
In The Ferryman Will Be There, Ellis Portal is recruited by Toronto police detective Matt West to help after a famous movie director, filming in Toronto, is murdered in full view of fans as he arrive
A young, modern farm woman observes with a poetic and appreciative eye the transformation of the plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons--and through the enroachment on the env
A fourteen-year-old English girl is seduced by an older Indian man while on vacation in Tanzania and finds herself skillfully manipulated by her lover, in a novel of forbidden desire set in the pulsi
Beth Riordan, a fortyish woman whose marriage has gone stale, begins an e-mail correspondence with her neighbor, Thomas, a travel writer in the midst of a divorce
After World War II Manya Gerson, a member of the Polish resistance, discovers her Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw has been obliterated and moves to a displaced persons camp in occupied Germany, where sh
When her eighty-year-old mother starts painting erotic nudes, Dorcas Buchanan returns to her hometown, and with the arrival of her own daughter, the secrets and revelations of three generations of wom
