The story of David Hartman, a chaplain fresh out of the Army, who comes to serve as rabbi to fourteen Jewish families in a rural New England town just after World War II.
Two ordinary families face an extraordinary crisis when ten-year-old Josh Learner is killed by hit-and-run driver Dwight Arno, a small-town lawyer who is also the father of a ten-year-old boy.
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Twelve-year-old Louise Lambert accepts an invitation to a private sale of vintage clothing but upon donning an evening gown, she finds herself in 1912 aboard the Titanic as the gown's original owner, silent film star Alice Baxter.
After their family is torn apart by tragedies and the publicity that they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison try to pull together and protect their brother from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
Helle Crafts had mysteriously disappeared. Herzog observed her dispassionate husband and skillfully recreated the hour-by-hour details of this grisly true-crime.
The author recalls his fears as a first-grader during the initial days of World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, air raid drills, and blackouts, and the reassurance he received from his parents.
