For nine-year-old Mickey, the early fifties were not the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy of love and security. Instead, they were years of abandonment, unimaginable cruelty, and virtual slavery. This memoir reveals Mickey's devastating experiences of being handed off from one abusive person to another ... all in the name of survival.

The Golden Sun follows a rootless protagonist named Cezal as he leaves everything behind and journeys toward his mother’s hometown after her recent passing. Set in the early 20th century, Robert Shafer’s novel largely takes place on a train, and Cezal realizes many of the passengers are there for similar reasons. Some are attempting to run from the meaninglessness that continues to creep into their lives, or heading in the direction of a new life altogether. As late summer turns t...

The Golden Sun follows a rootless protagonist named Cezal as he leaves everything behind and journeys toward his mother's hometown after her recent passing. Set in the early 20th century, Robert Shafer's novel largely takes place on a train, and Cezal realizes many of the passengers are there for similar reasons. Some are attempting to run from the meaninglessness that continues to creep into their lives, or heading in the direction of a new life altogether. As late summer turns t...

very unusual family saga written with unusual intelligence and compassion. Erica Witsell has a gift for depicting complex relationships. -Phyllis Rose, author of Parallel Lives, The Year of Reading Proust, and The Shelf.Every summer, Jessie and Emma leave their suburban home in the Central Valley and fly north to Baymont. Nestled among Mendocino's golden hills, with ponies to love and endless acres to explore, Baymont should be a child's ...

"A socialite bride, a $1 million inheritance, an older husband of questionable social rank, Yankees misbehaving on Southern soil . . . [A] web of intrigue" ( Our State).A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst, North Carolina, into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler's adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February morning weeks after her wedding day. A politically charged coroner's inquest...

The twelve-year rampage of "Missoula Mauler" Wayne Nance—and the shocking end to his murder spreeTo his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986.Nance's only requirement for murder was accessibility—a preacher's ...

Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel...

“Sinuous and captivating.”— Foreword ReviewsShortlisted for the 2019 Staunch Book PrizeFor readers of Sharp Objects comes a thrilling modern noir with a fresh narrative voice that explores coming of age, desire, and the lengths we’ll go to for loveWhen 24-year-old Nicole Hewett’s beloved childhood friend, Honey, returns to their small northern town after an unexplained six-year absence, Nicole real...

From the global bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE LETTER comes a gripping and heartbreaking novel of family secrets**.**'Utterly gripping, taut and powerful. An emotionally charged, compulsive, moving novel' Adele Parks'Captivating and suspenseful' Jessica Fellowes'I so enjoyed it. Twists and turns... Hours of gripping entertainment and a great many tears' Lesley Pearse__...

A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth CenturyFlora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world.But money itself is not the source of happiness. Glimpses into the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her great-grandparents and the yearly pr...

A twentieth-century saga about love, class, and the decisions that shape us from "one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America" (Michael Schaub, NPR).Now 101 years old, Prudence O'Connor is visited by her estranged brother's granddaughter—and shown a series of mementos that bring a century of family drama back to the surface of her memory. She and her brother spent their early childhood in Oyster Bay, Long Island, in the shadow of the ecce...

The "powerful and moving" true story of a Long Island family torn apart by drugs, violence, and the unbridgeable divide between generations ( Kirkus Reviews).George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations: a home, a family, the pleasure of watching their two sons grow up. But in February 1972, an unthinkable tragedy occurred in the basement of their Nassau County residence, ...