Saving RuthA wonderful coming of age novel from Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts, Saving Ruth tells the story of a fish out of water young Jewish woman, returning to her Alabama hometown after a semester at a Yankee college, only to discover that lifeand she, herselfhavent really changed in the ways shed hoped. Southern fiction with a pungent twist, Saving Ruth is a wonderfully evocative, delightfully engaging tale that, nonetheless, seriously addresses

in the Little House books

Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband

which is hardly surprising

Everyone is keeping secrets

But when a marriage dispute spins out of control

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House series captured her childhood adventures growing up on the American frontier

Psychologically nuanced

ultra-competitive suburb

Giani Zail Singh's tiff with Rajiv

Some things are worth experiencing

thrilling story of the Texas Revolution from its humble beginnings to its dramatic conclusion

endlessly jostling its subjects to make room for new ones