National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. From all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still t...

An impressive overview of a writer whose career is still climbing, Worship of the Common Heart allows us a rare opportunity to observe twenty years in the evolution of a writer of uncommon talent and heart. Emotionally complex, achingly real, thes...

When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat - she knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the childre...