LESLIE ANN TROOK

Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the...

"Zach Wells, a laconic geologist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And...

The bond between a Dutch teenager and her father is tested as the Resistance wages its secret war on the Nazis: "Darkly lyrical . . . An action filled plot." -Mary Glickman, author of By the Rivers of Babylon During the Second World War, Rika, a...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ * From "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" ( The New York Times )--a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac...

Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.