Henry Carter Hull

It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright,...

Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears.

A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly-and perhaps irrevocably-in this surprising, suspenseful love story Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognizing faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered,...

Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend, Petra, disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.

When his stepmother's remarriage drives him from home, Max and a hobo fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged.

Pediatrician Dr. Lucy Weiss, raised in the foster care system, struggles to achieve the right balance between work and home while questioning her own parenting abilities, as well as those of the parents of her young patients.

Widow Marguerite Daigle loses her grip on her life and her children when she turns to alcohol for relief from the pressures of single motherhood, and her teenage daughter finds refuge with local babysitter and religious right-to-lifer Isabel Flood.

Recounts the events surrounding the murder of Bob Seaman, a successful auto industry engineer, and his wife Nancy's trial, during which Nancy claimed she killed him in self-defense.

A chronicle of the Gere family, telling of the suffering they endured after twelve-year-old Brenda, the firstborn, was abducted and murdered, leading father Joe into an alcoholic decline that ended in suicide, and focusing on the long search for Brenda's body, and the trial of her attacker, Michael Green.