An illegal immigrant is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten. Six months later...
A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steve Lopez
When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers was a...
Here begins one of the most remarkable works of history ever fashioned. All the great battles are here, of course, but so are the smaller ones: Ball's Bluff, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Island Ten,...
In this psychological thriller with supernatural overtones, a young couple, Conrad and Joanna Harrison, attempt to save their marriage by starting anew in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing...
This extraordinary, prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln by one of the most highly regarded historians on the subject examines Lincoln both as a rising politician and as...
After finally achieving some measure of peace and contentment on the tip of Oak Point overlooking the Little Peconic Bay, Sam Acquillo is yet again an accidental player in other people’s dramas. It...
Walker & Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Its Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who...
Martha Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, speaks for victims of crime and their families and sees the system as a means for doing right. After she wins a murder case, a suspect is...
