Church of MarvelsA ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn of the century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all. New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle,

a successful career and a happy marriage have brought her relief

Opposites Attract: Piper Baird is a scholarship student with a chip on her shoulder

Raise and care for animals

William Barret Travis and his brave defenders of the Alamo in San Antonio have been slaughtered

Despite their growing distance

olive oil -- even red wine if you desire

the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation

River Under the Road

Life is a series of negotiations

000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast

a young physician in Albuquerque

he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain