South of Superior

When Madeline Stone arrives in McAllaster, Michigan, she's on the run from a troubled past. She finds a small town where the cash-strapped are rich in spirit, the elderly are childlike, and something as complicated as love becomes pure and simple. Ellen Airgood's debut novel is a heartwarming and tender tale of the power of place.

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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