When a young Liz Gilbert married and settled down in New York City, she believed she could handle anything and everything by age 30. Just after reaching 30, all Gilbert wanted was to get far, far away from the life she was living.
After struggling through a life-changing divorce, isolation, and severe depression, Gilbert made [...]

The year is 1539, and Jane Boleyn is waiting for her inheritance after the death of her husband. Anne, Duchess of Cleves, is to become the next Queen of England, and a young maiden by the name of Katherine Howard is eagerly anticipating the day she will be sent to the Tudor court. Philippa [...]

Summer jobs are never fun. Summer jobs at a lost and found center is definitely not any more appealing. This is the dilemma facing the soon-to-be young hero, Duncan, who spends his day lounging around in the Toronto Transit Authority Lost and Found in Graham McNamee’s novel Acceleration.
This 17 year-old one day happens to [...]

Augusten Burroughs takes us back to his childhood with “A Wolf at the Table,” his latest memoir about the struggles, fears, and hardships he endured growing up with a father he hardly knew. His father was a man who simply didn’t seem interested in being a part of his son’s life, even up to the point when he takes his last breath.