With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Henry--lonely, friendless, not too good at sports--spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of hi[...]

It's the summer of 1979, and a dry, hot, northern California school vacation stretches ahead for Rachel and her younger sister Patty - the daughters a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome and chronically unfaithful detective father who loves to make women happy, and the mother whose heart he brok[...]

It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving conc[...]

Actor and award-winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy leads the charge in ancestral travel as he masterfully describes his own quest to uncover his Irish roots, followed by twenty-five other compelling stories that span the globe. From Sicily to Russia to Taiwan and beyond, each of the 26 stories pr[...]