Fiction (fic)

A moving, multi-generational family story centered around a woman's return to her late grandmother's lake cottage, and the long-buried secrets she uncovers there.

Two culturally different young people meet in Warsaw, Poland, fall in love, marry, and move to America, where they move to the Adirondack Mountains in New York State and try to earn a living from running a dry-goods store, mining, and helping to build a railroad.

Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, he creates a small town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?

A novel on John Brown, the slavery abolitionist, narrated by one of his 20 children. The narrator is his son Owen, who fought at his father's side and he tells the story in a series of letters to a biographer. Owen describes his father as a loving family man and provides insight into Brown's motives for becoming an abolitionist, including business failures.

Time: 1755 - 1763

Kasch is a lonely eccentric man in his forties who has survived a bitterly disappointing marriage only to fall in love, against his will, with a fourteen-year-old named Laney. An inhabitant of a distant, improverished region, Childwold, Laney embodies all that Kasch finds fatally irresistible. As Kasch succumbs to the beauty and mystery of Childwold and Laney's family, his control over his destiny loosens and he is plunged into personal catastrophe, even as Laney and her family are freed.

A doctor in a small town in the Adirondacks befriends a surreptitious wealthy newcomer and finds mystery and romance in his wake.

A strange girl disappears from her family's home on an Adirondack lake and is tracked down by Fleming Stone, detective.