"Ellen Bass brings a deft touch as she continues her ongoing interrogations of crucial moral issues of our times, while simultaneously delighting in endearing human absurdities. From the start of Like
In the fall of 1890, three New Mexico ranchers and their sons meet in the town of Loving to discuss and organize their annual cattle drive to the railhead in Pecos, Texas. The three sons, ranging in a
Seventeen-year-old Erich is a prisoner of war working at a northern Alberta logging camp. Twelve-year-old Max goes to school—reluctantly—in the nearby town. The two would be unlikely friends, except t
Examines four key historical cases in which Israeli prime ministers chose preemptive or preventive military strikes and had to decide whether to notify or consult with the United States.
Seventeen-year-old Aubrey Housing and her best friends live by a set of rules: don't fall in love, don't be needy and don't give away your heart, but Aubrey finds herself struggling with her convictio
