"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home"--

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dr. Susan Forward's Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them.
When you were a child...
Did your parents tell you were bad or worthless?
Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?
Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?
Were you frightened of your parents?
Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?
Now that you...

Gilbert Morris takes the Winslow family beyond the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth to the Salem witch trials. Book 2 from the bestselling House of Winslow series.

A young woman races to save her kidnapped husband, a used bookstore owner deals with the loss of a son on an Afghan battlefield, a mother travels to Kabul to tend to her wounded son, and two Afghans reveal the complexity of their culture.

Cal and Betsy Kusek leave their hectic lives in New York City in 1950 to settle on a ranch outside Rapid City, South Dakota, and four years later they're considered valued members of their community. Cal is a partner in a local law firm, and Betsy and their two children, Jo and Lance, manage the ranch. Smith alternates between this setting and scenes in 1985 in a Rapid City hospital when Jo returns to visit Lance and his son after they have been brutally...

2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her life. And her heart is broken. Shadi devours her own pain,...

With candor and clarity, Lee Woodruff chronicles her life as wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend, highlighting such universal topics as family, raising teenagers, marriage, friends, tragedy, and how life never seems to go as planned.