All board for Dreamland!  Hold on to your pillow because the Goodnight Train is taking…

Teacher and best-selling novelist Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young…

Teenagers and the law?  Aren't teenagers supposed to have the same rights and freedoms…

Christopher Wilson's "Cotton" (Harcourt, $14) tells the tale of Lee Cotton, a…

Americans" working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees"

After purchasing an assisted living facility that specializes in the care of elderly mentally…

Beginning with the dramatic events surrounding his birth, Ferguson recreates adventures involving…

Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn's life, Kuwana Halsey's "Angel of Harlem" (One World paperback, $13.95) is an affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War — during which May's father escaped from slavery — with the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.

Fifty years ago, as Europe's colonial powers withdrew, Africa moved with enormous hope and fervor toward democracy and economic independence.
Dozens of new states were launched amid much jubilation and the world's applause. African leaders, popularly elected, stepped forward to tackle the problems of development and nation-building. In the Cold War era, the new states excited the attention of the superpowers. Africa was considered too valuable a prize to lose. 

In "700 Sundays" (Warner, $21.95), Billy Crystal, one of America's most beloved entertainers, takes us home. Crystal opens the front door to a time in his life when he shared joy, love, music and laughter with an eccentric family headed by the hardworking father who left them all too soon.