Publisher Riverhead Books, October 25, 2016 As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan never offered sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Rather than talk, […]

Publisher University of Chicago Press, September 16, 2016 No matter how many books and articles are written about The Stranger—and there are hundreds of them—the power of this little novel remains a mystery. Yet with all of the accolades heaped […]

Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding Publisher Yale University Press, February 2009 The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on […]

The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading and discussion of MISTER OWITA’S GUIDE TO GARDENING by Carol Wall. Questions 1. Carol’s friendship with Giles begins with a letter. She continues her correspondence with him throughout their friendship. How […]

Review Excerpts Oprah Magazine – May 1, 2014 With her children grown and out of the house, Carol Wall is obsessed—perhaps overly so—with ripping out her azaleas. That is, until she meets a certain Giles Owita, a Kenyan gardener, supermarket […]

Publisher Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, April 2009 Fore, bella! From the author of the critically acclaimed Golfing with God comes a charming narrative of hole-in-one trip through Italy—a glorious summer of golfing, eating, and learning how to slow down and enjoy […]

Publisher Spiegel & Grau, October 20, 2009 To his friends, Seymour Langer was one of the brightest kids to emerge from Chicago’s Depression-era Jewish West Side. To his family, he was a driven and dedicated physician, a devoted father and […]

Publisher Spiegel and Grau/Random House, June 23, 2015 As a young child, Jessica Jackley had a simple desire — to help those less fortunate than herself. She started as so many of us often do, donating money to various charitable […]

Publisher Maiden Lane Press, March 26, 2015 FOUR YEARS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF KURDISTAN is a remarkable first-hand account by Aram Haigaz, an Armenian author and youthful survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915. This memoir has been made available […]