Pinch your pennies with The Backyard Homestead, Carleen Madigan's all-purpose guide to living simply and efficiently during any pesky recession.

Alice Blackwell is a fictional character: She isn’t Laura Bush, but the veil is thin enough to set tongues wagging in Washington and beyond.

Some of Nelson's stories can get repetitive, but they remain funny, dark, graceful, and engaging anyway.

A first novel explores themes of love, loss, and family.

Jan Wong manages to infuse humor and hope into bleak subject matter in this memoir.