After a terrible storm kills her husband in 1830, Polish peasant Regina sets off on a walking pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Black Madonna. When an accident disrupts her plans and throws her faith in doubt, a strange band of gypsies offers help. Time Is a Pilgrim is a tale of women living in […]
Kat is at loose ends after her husband ditched her and their daughter followed suit. When a lost time traveler appears in her Pennsylvania kitchen, she grasps at the chance to give her life meaning by helping the woman find her way home. But a mysterious stranger insists they are together for a purpose. Slipping […]
Wherever the Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van takes you on a stunning two-year adventure. Newlyweds (an artist and an engineer) meet the rigors of international travel and the ups and downs of married life in a Volkswagen microbus that continually needs repair. A delightful memoir about a two-year, 40,000-mile journey […]
In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago’s western suburbs between the 1960s and ‘80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight as the two strive for identity, individuality, and belonging. But as Julie’s parents continue adding children to the family, some painful and tragic experiences […]
In 1910, fearing escalating violence against the Jews in Russia, Feige’s father arranges for her to marry a wealthy cousin in New York City. She will no longer be her parents adored “little bird.” As she adapts to life in America, she goes from being an obedient daughter to a dutiful wife, even allowing her […]
Gardens often serve as metaphors for life, representing cycles of patience, nurturing, loss, and bounty. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote in The Secret Garden, “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” This sentiment captures the spirit of this anthology, which highlights how we experience gardens, both literal and […]
