Sylvia Finkelstein, the reference librarian at the Brandenburg Public Library, intends to save a floundering romance, even though she knows next to nothing about the woman or her despondent fiancé.
Thirteen-year-old George Weiner has fallen in love with the girl next door. The romance is unfolding like a contemporary Romeo and Juliette with an Afro-American twist.
Seventeen-year-old Laurel Evers is running off to a fictional village in rural Maine in search of an idyllic existence that hasn't existed since the era of the horse and buggy.
In his inscrutable, divine logic, God blessed the cocktail pianist with a singular gift but little else.
I’m fourteen years-old and can’t make much sense out of the adult world, but at least I’m not a mentally unbalanced doofus like Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.
The Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, was an existentialist and mystic long before Sartre, Camus or Hermann Hesse made the concept fashionable.
Marcus Granger is changing careers. The clinical psychologist is abandoning a well-paid, administrative position at the local mental hospital to become a modern-day Lao Tzu.
Evan Turcotte’s future sister-in-law, Rita, is urging him not to marry her younger sister. Cancel the wedding and run for your life - that’s her basic message.
Iktómi, the Lakota spider god, played a clever trick on the girl who busses tables at the local diner. He struck Rita Brooks dumb, utterly speechless, even though her vocal cords worked just fine.
Harry Chen will be accompanying Ida Goldfarb to her grandson’s bar mitzvah, and the unsettling news has catapulted her daughter, Naomi, into a blind frenzy.
Are you familiar with the novelist, Honoré Morrow? Born in 1880 she was one of the most remarkable writers of her day.
Buddy Hazelton, who taught linguistic philosophy at Brandenburg College, believed that humans were imprisoned in a room with an unlocked door that opened inward - imprisoned only as long as it never occurred to them to pull rather than push.
Peter Ostrowski, who is dating a Puerto Rican, once studied at a yeshiva in Jerusalem and wanted to become an orthodox rabbi. But that was then and this is now.
While on vacation in New Hampshire, Lester McSweeney is trying to catch the biggest pickerel he ever laid eyes on, but instead he must contend with Tovah Moshel, the equally uncooperative Israeli girl.
Hattie Mae Johnson, who serves boiled hotdogs and French fries in the high school cafeteria, wants to write a personal memoir, but the gangly black women with the granny glasses wouldn’t know a dangling participle from a split infinitive.
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