Life Preservers

A Book About Sisterhood: Gem has always been Dixie’s protector

Marshaling evidence from within the Bible and the wider historical record of the ancient world

On a balmy June night

are beautifully expressed in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins

author of Grain Brain

Partanen began to look closely at both

an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and Zinaida Lintvaryova

I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble

he leaves Bianca under the care — so to speak — of Lucrezia

she’s captivated by the young officer’s charisma and brilliance

and years of fame as the writer of the Little House books

a writer of detective fiction was being troubled by an aggressive wasp