Allure of Deceit

South Boston prepares for school busing in summer 1974, the setting for Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane. The neighborhood is poor, tight and...

A child can develop resilience despite domestic violence, neglect and abandonment, poverty and inequality. In Hang the Moon by Jeannette Wa...

  Elinor De Witt in The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear lives a quiet life, retired after volunteering for the resistance effort in Belgi...

  Two women document flora of the Colosseum in Rome, one in 1854 and the other in 2018 in  The Weeds  by  Katy Simpson Smith . The first toi...

  Social media allows individuals to explore feelings about unwanted behavior in both themselves and others.  In Society of Shame by Jane Ro...

  Machines built by humans reflect human values. In the Lives of Puppets, by T.J. Klune, some machines love and nurture, and others are cor...

Childhood. Religion. Nature. Love. Each have a magical, spiritual quality, the memories of which can haunt for a lifetime.  The Magical King...