By Scott Lasser | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Divorced and bereft over the death of his young son, lawyer David Halpert pilgrimages to his Detroit suburb to care for his ailing parents. Then he sees it splashed across...

By Tie Ning | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Chinese novelist Tie Ning tells of four friends who come of age during the Cultural Revolution and wrestle with the fallout as adults in the ’90s. Sisters Tiao and Fan...

By Emily Giffin | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Television producer Marian Caldwell lives a self-scripted, picture-perfect New York life. All that’s missing is a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Peter, the...

By Anita Amirrezvani | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Princess Pari assumes control of late-16th-century Iran after the sudden death of her father, the Shah. While she waits for her brother to return from exile to rule...

By Joel Dovev | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | We all know the feeling: making a homecoming visit only to wander through the rooms of your childhood home and wonder, what is that? Based on his popular Crap at My...

By Jack Hitt | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Whether they were flying a kite in a storm or building a computer in a garage, people like Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs have driven American progress for centuries. Author Jack...

This Lower Peninsula town embraces its natural wonders, reveling in fine wine, locally sourced food and breathtaking scenery. Traverse City is a Northern Michigan paradise, especially this time of year, when millions...

By Jennifer Miller | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Iris Dupont begins her freshman year at elite Massachusetts prep school Mariana Academy with a mission: to kick-start her journalism career by ferreting out the truth...

By Jennifer DuBois | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | Harvard grad Irina Ellison is 30 years old and facing certain death. Diagnosed with the same debilitating disease that killed her father, she has given up on a future....

By Adam Levin | Reviewed by Jaclyn Trop | This collection of ten short stories may be unlike any other. Author Adam Levin has a gift for the grotesque, the vile, and the absurd, packaged as our darkest but truest...