Running Toward Home by Betty Jane Hegerat NeWest Press, 2006 220 pages Reviewed by Elizabeth Nolan With Running Toward Home Hegerat develops some of the same character types that appear in the stories in A Crack on the Wall, but instead of the insular world of family life, the focus is on a chaotic world spinning [...]
About Deadly Fall Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Susan Calder: Readers might find themselves as interested in the personal story as they are in the mystery. This could be why several people have told me they don’t generally read mysteries or like them, but they really [...]

The Drifts takes on four people giving everything they’ve got to carve the lives they want over one night, in a mean blizzard, over three hours, in small-town Arkansas. There’s Julie, a middle-aged pregnant mom who doesn’t want another child; her husband, Charlie, who wants a second chance at being a dad; Wilson, Charlie’s lover and [...]

The original pregnancy bible, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, has been completely revised, expanded, and updated by renowned, best-selling author and mother of four, Ann Douglas. Times have changed. From open discussions about prenatal and post-partum depression, to high-tech methods of conception, to proudly showing off that baby bump, being pregnant circa 2011 is [...]

This is the Moon’s Work: New and Selected Poetry by Diana Hayes Mother Tongue Publishing, 2011 Intro by George McWhirter “Not only does Diana Hayes take her siren’s place beside West Coast and Island writers such as Susan Musgrave, but her poetry rightfully owns these northern islands and ocean with their passages and perplexities as much [...]
About The Drifts Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about The Drifts? Thom Vernon: That a trans-dad has more to do with their own lives than they ever imagined. BCB: Have you acquired any good anecdotes surrounding this book? If so, could you share one? Thom Vernon: Yes. A [...]