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JUST WHAT KIND OF A MOTHER ARE YOU? Paula Daly Daly gets the action moving on the first page with a creepy man watching young girls on their way home [...]

THE SISTERS Nancy Jensen Jensen's ambitious first novel chronicles the lives of two sisters, Mabel and Bertie, over the course of nearly a century. The saga begins in pre-Depression Kentucky [...]

REQUIEM Frances Itani When his wife suddenly dies of a stroke just shy of her 50th birthday, Bin Okuma and his son Greg cope with the shock and loss in [...]

THE GAP YEAR Sarah Bird Cam Livesey wakes up one day to discover that her teenage daughter Aubrey is missing. Or rather, the daughter Cam once knew is missing. In [...]

DOWN THE UP ESCALATOR Barbara Garson Downward mobility is counterintuitive to the American Dream; no wonder our neighbours to the south are having trouble adjusting to the American Nightmare. With [...]

What is a woman to do when she gets the itch to change direction? What is she to do when the direction itself is as mystifying as the reason to [...]

THE MAID: A NOVEL OF JOAN OF ARC Kimberly Cutter They burned her body three times; that's how desperate the English, the Church and the French were to pulverize her. [...]

ELIZABETH AND HAZEL: TWO WOMEN OF LITTLE ROCK David Margolick It's a disturbing photograph--the venom practically spewing beyond the frame--and in 50-plus years it has not lost its power to [...]

FICTION RUINED MY FAMILY Jeanne Darst This memoir about growing up in a family of eccentrics opens with the author's father the magazine writer Stephen Darst, cashing in his job [...]

RECENT RESEARCH from the University of Innsbruck in Austria revealed that Westerners no longer give a fig about whether their lives have meaning. Tell that to the more than 400,000 [...]

BOUND TO LAST: 30 WRITERS ON THEIR MOST CHERISHED BOOK Edited by Scan Manning At first glance, a book about writers opining about their favourite books is about as interesting [...]

THE PAPER GARDEN: MRS. DELANY BEGINS HER LIFE'S WORK AT 72 Molly Peacock Mary Granville Pendarves Delany, aged 72, was in the throes of grief over the death of her [...]

SHE HAD GROWN into a tall, gorgeous blond, but it was her intelligence and kind heart that won him over. He was thankful to have grown into a taller-than-her fellow, [...]