For a girl like Melody and a dog like Mo, life can be both sticky and sweet. Melody has lived in Royal, Indiana, for as long as she can remember. It’s been just her and her father, and she’s...

Bakken, a poet and university professor of creative writing, leads the reader on a lyrical tour of Greek cuisine – from foraged greens, freshly caught octopus, wild thyme honey, showing us how Greek food is produced, procured, prepared, and...

When Rachel Prince cruises. It’s no honeymoon! Rachel’s dream honeymoon is disrupted when Sarah’s eccentric cousin is found dead. With wedding plans up and down, Rachel and Carlos have finally managed to tie the knot and head off on...

A cancelled engagement. A non-refundable honeymoon. A Christmas Robin will never forget. Robin Ellis has had a year she’d like to forget. She’s tired, overworked and most definitely not ready to spend the holidays with her rowdy family in...

Azadeh Moaveni, longtime Middle East correspondent for Time magazine, returns to Iran to cover the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Living and working in Tehran, she finds a nation that openly yearns for freedom and contact with the West...

In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world’s most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty,...

Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena – a...

Author Norma Khouri and her friend Dalia were like sisters. Since the age of three they were inseparable, sharing in all the childhood joys that a modern, middle-class life in Amman, Jordan, had to offer. By all appearances, they...

Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel – and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set...

Eriko really wouldn’t mind being savaged, if it was her best friend doing the savaging … Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies....