The happy and anxious times of the five girls from "All-of-a-kind famliy" as they live through the troubled period of World War I.

The lives of thirteen-year-old Sean, preparing for his bar mitzvah, his friend Marc, and their families are disrupted when the boys' interest in

Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal.

"An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood-- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites fr

Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-

Four New York City siblings decide to pool their resources so that each can do a special thing on the Saturday that is his turn to receive the co

Valentine Roncalli struggles to save her decades-old family business, finding love and the life she wants along the way.

A hefty feline puts up with all kinds of indignities from the children in her loving but rambunctious family.

Chronicles the further adventures of the eccentric Bagthorpe family as they go on vacation to a reputedly haunted house in Wales.

When Ella starts singing and dancing in a vaudeville act it becomes difficult to see much of Jules, who has returned home at the end of World War

"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the mu

"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his fathe