- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By...
- Location(s): Cincinnati
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three generations of women—and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane,...
- Location(s): Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, New York State
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a “send away” in 1962. Known as Linda in those days, her strong-willed grandmother put her on a greyhound bus to travel alone, cross-country,...
- Location(s): Southern Jordan, Wadi Rum
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 2000s
Million Star Hotel, the delightful sequel to Through a Mud Wall, by Rana Azzoubi, is a charming children’s book that explores the ways in which friendship can bridge all differences. Nadia, a young Jordanian girl, is excited to have...