Books & Authors

Mireille Duval Jameson is visiting her native Haiti with her husband and infant son when she is kidnapped from in front of her parents’ home. She’s repeatedly beaten and sexually assaulted by her captors, who resent her family’s wealth in that very poor country. The novel follows Mireille as she waits for her father to pay the ransom, which he refuses to do, and traces the changes that her kidnapping brings about in her life.

Miles Adler-Hart and his best friend Hector are young boys who spend a lot of time spying on Miles’s mother, in the hope that they will understand what's going on in the family. But like many young sleuths, they end up learning things they really didn’t want to.

Main Line Philadelphia wife and mother Alice Gregory discovers she needs her first pair of reading glasses to aid her middle-aged eyes. When she puts them on, she finds an entirely new perspective on life, and as this novel progresses, Alice’s husband borrows the glasses and gets a new outlook too.

This essay collection explores how we feel pain -- our own and that of others. The author describes attending a conference for a bizarre, niche disease; playing a sick patient to help assess a doctor’s empathy; observing poverty tourism, and other offbeat experiences that allow her to comment on human behavior. Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

The Man Who Walked Away follows Albert, who walks, in a trance-like state, all over France and eventually all over Europe. He’s denigrated as a mad man, ridiculed, thrown into prison. There’s very little help for him until he finds a doctor who eventually starts to help him. The book is based on a true story, and takes us back to a time when mental health problems were little understood. For more, go to bksandauthors.com.

In The Book of Why, an acclaimed self-help writer named Eric Newborn has given up his career and is living in self-imposed exile on Martha’s Vineyard. One day a stranger knocks on his door, and she unspools a string of discoveries in both their lives.

In March of 1964, 27-year-old Catherine Genovese, known as Kitty, was sexually assaulted and murdered in her quiet neighborhood in Queens, New York. The case became famous for illustrating the so-called “bystander effect,” the idea that people in urban settings don’t want to get involved in other people’s troubles, and besides, they figure, someone else must have called for help by now. This new book, though, unearths some different facts. Win a signed copy of this book! Email cary@bksandauthors.com for a chance.

Two intrepid reporters from the Philadelphia Daily News root out widespread police corruption in this true story that reads like the best crime novel.

Explore the world of the Lower East Side tenements in the 1990s and the squatters who claimed them in this riveting novel.

The Lion Seeker is a sprawling coming of age story in which Isaac Helger, the son of Jewish immigrants, makes his way in Johannesburg, South Africa, as World War II looms.

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The Peerless Four explores the world of female athletes in the 1920s as they strive to compete in the Olympics. It’s a look back on the rights of women at the time. And it’s also a fascinating view into the world of world-class athletes and what they give up -- and gain -- in practicing their sport at the highest level.

BUYING IN tells the story of Sophie Landgraf, a recent college graduate in her first job as a Wall Street analyst. Sophie makes some missteps as well as some smart moves as she learns the ways of the brutal business she has signed on for.

In Stop Here, three women friends work together at Murray’s Diner on Long Island. The present-day war in Iraq and the decades-old war in Vietnam weigh heavily on all their lives, and the novel explores how they support each other and make their way through the challenges that come at them every day.

This is Between Us looks at an intense 5-year relationship from inside the heart and soul of the man and woman involved.