"Political campaign advisor Lucy Toomey is forced to return to her hometown when her mentally impaired sister dies. In order to inherit their family home, her sister's will requires Lucy to reside there for eight weeks. Her return to Nilson's Bay, Wisconsin, is a time of reflection, healing, acceptance and romance"--

Shattered by the sudden loss of his wife, home, and business, once-successful advertising executive Alan Christoffersen embarks on a cross-country backpacking journey during which he meets people who help him to gain profound spiritual understandings.

Surviving a horrific school shooting, six-year-old Zach Taylor retreats into the world of books and art. He makes sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents, and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy.

"From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's...