"1927. Olivia 'Livy' West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race—a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawai'i—she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...

Jerome Sugar learned the art of baking in his grandma's bakery, also called Sugar, on historic Perdita Street in San Francisco. He supplies baked goods to the Lost and Found Bookshop across the street. When the restaurant that shares his commercial kitchen loses its longtime tenant, a newcomer moves in: Margot Salton, a barbecue master from Texas. Margot isn't exactly on the run, but she needs a fresh start. She's taken care of herself her whole life,...

"Baker extraordinaire Rylee Harris has a recipe for everything—except love. It’s been five years since she lost her husband, but romance is still a struggle for Rylee. In her small hamlet of Honey Hill, North Carolina, Rylee knows she’ll be the talk of the town when she finds someone new. To ease her mother’s worries about her love life, Rylee impulsively invents a fake relationship with the only man who’s caught her eye: the town sheriff,...

"Dan Gerber’s poems remind us that the very fact of being alive—of experiencing our fleeting, fragile, existence—is our only source of joy, our only avenue of consolation and compassion. These poems of late-life experience wake us up, revivify our existence, and nurture our desire to go on living, despite our times, to counter our times, to open ourselves to both beauty and terror, and to Rilke’s reminder that, 'No feeling is final.'" --publisher's...

"The lives of a middle-aged doctor and a love-struck young woman intersect across time in Sleeping in Eden, Nicole Baart's haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the boundaries between loyalty and truth.On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried...

The Ewing family is struck by tragedy when Jock is presumed dead in a plane crash. J.R. schemes to gain ultimate power of the Ewing business and tries to win Sue Ellen's love back.

"This book is a collection of stories about the life of a remarkable woman, Rosemary Wilson, who had a deep-rooted appreciation for her heritage in the idyllic town of Meadowvale, Ontario, Canada. When a development hit the area in the 1970s, and destroyed much of the old-world charm of the village, Rosemary and her son Terry, the author of the book, sought to salvage all they could of the history-laden buildings that were sadly torn down. Terry used...

"Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners...