Mark Budman draws on his own life to recount the fictional story of Alex, who dreams of escaping Stalin's dictatorship to find his American cousin and become a writer in the free world.
Sixty-year-old Sully is down on his luck and has to deal with a landlady who wants him evicted, an estranged son who is headed down the same road as Sully, a neurotic ex-wife, unreasonable girlfriend, and the ghost of his own abusive father.
Tells of a seemingly ordinary, successful family who is nearly torn apart when tragedy strikes but finds a way to remain happy and loyal despite rumors, secrets and strife.
Eva Khatchadourian has been living a life plagued by guilt and denial since her son opened fire and killed seven of his classmates two years earlier, and as she tries to come to terms with her son's actions, she examines the parenting choices she made when raising him and wonders where she went wrong.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years from his birth in 1858 to 1901 when, with the death of President McKinley, he became the youngest president of the United States.
In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.
Free-thinking librarian Glynis Tryon is in the midst of organizing the historic Woman's Rights Convention of 1848 to be held in the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, when a body turns up in the canal, drawing her attention and talents toward sleuthing.
Frannie decides she would rather be a designer than a model in a mother-daughter fashion show, but when her fashion sense goes unappreciated and she is entirely excluded from the event, she tries to find a way to shine.
Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.
