Parents are giving credit cards to children so young that some of them aren’t able to make their own beds or cross the street alone. These newly minted cardholders are buckled into car seats whenever they travel and wear water wings at the pool but have credit cards linked to their parents’ account.

One mother said she and her husband added...Read more

Romance authors have such huge and wonderful imaginations. If anyone thinks that because romance has a formula that it’s boring, you couldn’t be more wrong. And with all of the hockey romance that’s out there, you would think that because it’s so niche, that there couldn’t be a different take on the subgenre. That’s where you’re ...Read more

Marianna Marlowe’s "Portrait of a Feminist" isn’t your typical feminist memoir. It doesn’t shout its message or come armed with statistics and slogans. Instead, it invites you into the quiet, powerful moments that shaped one woman’s identity across years, continents and cultures. Told in a series of beautifully written personal essays ...Read more

Set in the shadow of World War II during the Berlin Airlift, this sweeping, character-rich work brings the past into sharp focus — not just in terms of facts and figures, but in the emotional stakes of those who endured one of the Cold War’s earliest and most decisive confrontations. The result is a moving, deeply human story about standing ...Read more

The last time we sold a house was 40 years ago, so we were unfamiliar with the current concept of “staging a house” before selling it. When our youngest daughter and husband mentioned staging their house, we thought live music and refreshments might be involved. Wrong again.

Staging a house means you declutter, deep clean and enter all your...Read more

To say Bill Ehnert appreciates women is an understatement. Whatever female strays into his peripheral vision, he sees through his own particular pair of rose-colored glasses, which makes Ken Rossal’s newest novel, "Wither Creek," a joyous and libidinous ride.

Starting out at 16, living in Smalltown America, Rossal’s everyman first falls in ...Read more

Michael Bienenstock’s "Love and Hope Have No Borders" is a rare novel that manages to be intimate and expansive at once. Told through the eyes of Joe Gold, a young Jewish medical student from New York, the book follows his reluctant journey to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, where his internship through Doctors Without Borders becomes much ...Read more

Imagine a covert operative enhanced by microscopic technology, only to discover the very tools that empower her might also be used to control her.

This is the exhilarating premise of Edward L.E. Phont’s "The Hidden Pulse," a high-octane blend of science fiction and thriller that grabs hold from page one. Set in the near future, the novel ...Read more

Turquoise colors the early morning sky as a granddaughter and I leave the house for a doughnut run. We turn out of the neighborhood, zip past the strip mall, clear two stop lights, lean into a roundabout and begin cruising a lovely stretch of road bordered by magnificent estate homes with manicured lawns and swimming pools.

My backseat ...Read more