Books & Authors

As our knowledge of science grows, Americans’ participation in religious life dwindles. Reverend Geungerich, senior minister at New York City’s All Souls Unitarian church, argues for an evolved concept of God, to meet contemporary needs.

Jonathan Miles's insightful new novel WANT NOT explores waste, our consumer culture and all its excesses, and what we choose to throw away and to keep.

In this new novel by Lisa Gornick, Myra, a Manhattan psychotherapist, has an orderly life. She’s raised her kids and gotten rid of her cheating husband. She has herself and her patients to care for. But then her son moves back in, bringing his wife and young child. Myra hires them a nanny, thinking it will help maintain order. But it does just the opposite.

A young girl tries to find her sister's true killer, as she exonerates a man wrongly convicted. A new mystery in the Rosato & Associates series, from Edgar Award winning, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline.

In this dark and thoroughly entertaining satire, doll company mogul Happy Masters sets about remodeling Equinox, NY, into HappyLand, a sort of amusement park-slash- tourist destination for fans of her dolls.

Part memoir and part keen investigative journalism, Knocking on Heaven’s Door traces the journey through the death of Katy's Butler's parents and at the same time, through the heartbreaking rabbit hole of the American medical system.

Adam and Thomas were best friends as adolescents until a prank took a tragic turn, and they went their separate ways. Now Thomas’s parents are calling for Adam’s help in reaching out to the troubled Thomas. At the Bottom of Everything traces the journey that brings the two back together, to reckon with their past.

This beautiful novel traces the ways we are all connected with one another.

Celia is the young and recently widowed landlord of a house full of apartments in Brooklyn. She carefully selects her tenants to ensure herself a quiet and isolated domestic life. But when beautiful, charismatic Hope arrives in the building, things start to change.

Iris Smyles the writer follows a character called Iris Smyles through the awkward stage between adolescence and adulthood in this engaging and entertaining novel.

Mitchell Jackson, The Residue Years by Books & Authors

Brewster is an intense, beautiful novel about friendship and loyalty. Two teenage boys forge a tight friendship in upstate New York in the 1960s, against a soundtrack of The Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan, Woodstock and Kent State. I talk with author Mark Slouka here.

A family living "the American Dream" falls apart, and goes on to deal with the consequences.

August's beach read! I couldn't put down this plot-twisting psychological thriller. It traces the scars left on a young woman held in captivity.

Bestselling author Courtney Sullivan’s latest is a novel about marriage in its many forms. The sprawling story also weaves in a history of diamonds, and how they came to symbolize hope and love in our culture.