Empty-nester Grace Dowben finds solace in her marriage, community, and volunteer work, but she suddenly must decide how to resolve her love for a newcomer who is young enough to be her son.

In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite, this novel challenges assumptions about kinship and selfhood, crime and punishment, and appearance and reality when Steven Howe-Boomer learns his father--assumed to have died in 1958--is, in fact, incarcerated in the Colorado State Penitentiary.

From girlhood through middle age, Rachel and Miri, two Jewish women living in Colorado, struggle to sustain a complex, often competitive friendship throughout the challenges that arise over many decades.

For more than 150 years, Hans Christian Andersen s beloved fairy tales have charmed and entertained audiences around the world. Blending old folk tales with fantasy, the Danish bard s stories are rich in humor and sharp with irony. The forty-seven fables in this beautifully translated collection tell of kings and princesses, of farm boys and mermaids, of witches and ogres. Some of the tales like The Little Match Girl and The Emperor s New Clothes we know by heart. Others like The Jumpers and The Flying Trunk are sure to become instant favorites. Packed with...