Ten-year-old Hayley worries about the dog across the street, whose moody owner keeps him tied up and never walks him.

It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are

Narrator Anne Marie paints pictures of family life from grief to hope after her father abandons his "four girls"--Anne Marie and her mother and twin and baby si

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Jo

Bob Buford's Halftime shows how men can make their middle years a time of transformation toward a more satisfying -- and significant -- life.