After serving in Afghanistan for seven months in the Helmand River Valley, where the single bloodiest battle of that war took place, resulting in the deaths of 25 Marines and the wounding of 200 more, Marine Major Thomas Schueman redeployed to Afghanistan for a second time.
Her brother is on the fast track to a successful career in finance and has plans for his sister to follow along. But in Jane Pek’s debut novel, “The Verifiers,” Claudia Lin secretly drops out of the corporate rat race without telling her siblings or mother and takes a job at Veracity, a new …
Two identical twins as different as can be. Molly, anxious and reserved, lives a quiet, contained life in London. Katie, gregarious and fun-loving, is now attending school in New York where she has a great apartment, lots of friends and a handsome, athletic boyfriend.
With her golden eyes and short brown coat, Al is unlike most Newfoundland dogs not only in color. She’s also bigger than a bear cub at an equivalent age and able to pull two to three times her weight. Al is also exuberant, intelligent, and eager to please. But in her overwhelming enthusiasm,…
The first line of Olivia Harrison's book of poetry captures a feeling universal to everyone who has lost a loved one. “All I wanted was another spring,” she writes. “Was it so much to ask?”
In a time not too far in the future and in a world tantalizing familiar but not quite recognizable, Agent Myles arrives at Ondstrand Biologic, a bio-tech firm headquartered in a large brooding manor set on a cliff along a remote coastline. He is there to investigate the murder of Allegra Sta…
Consuelo Vanderbilt had it all. A lovely young lady with closets full of dresses and shoes, and servants to help her dress for dinner and draw her bath in her family’s French Renaissance-style chateau, which took up the entire block of Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd streets on the west s…
Men arriving in big cars with women swathed in diamonds and furs walking into softly lit dining rooms filled with the sounds of music, laughter and the clinking of ice cubes in cocktail glasses. Relish trays and sizzling thick steaks placed on white linen tablecloths next to crisply starched…
Edie first exhibited signs of severe anxiety at her first puppy social at the San Francisco SPCA. Unlike the previous two dogs Meredith May had owned, whom she describes as typical goofy, playful, curious, undaunted puppies from Golden Retriever Central Casting, Edie was absolutely terrified…
His village sadly slipping away, self-appointed mayor and radiator repairman Signor Speranza listens in horror as a water commission official tells him that the water pipes must be replaced or the commission will shut the village’s water supply off — making Prometto uninhabitable.
In 1914, Marian Graves and her twin brother, James, are among the last to be saved when the Josephina Eterna sinks in the North Atlantic. With their father in prison and their mother gone, the two babies are bundled off to live with their Uncle Wallace, an artist in Missoula, Montana. Wallac…
Author Karen White has added another page-turner to her repertoire of haunted houses and ghosts who won’t stay put in her latest book, “The Shop on Royal Street.”
Chicago native Greg Borzo has always been fascinated by the city of his birth. A graduate of Grinnell College where he studied anthropology, Borzo now lectures at both Harper and Oakton community colleges. As a member of the Chicago Tour-Guide Professional Association, he conducts bus, bicyc…
Seventeen-year-old Lily Grunfeld survived the Holocaust by hiding in a crowded attic room in a burned-out building in Budapest. She was twice saved by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. Once when he issued false citizenship documents to Hungarian Jews in Hungary, and again at the end of the …
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