The Circus In WinterFrom 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man's life or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of

in both the clubhouse and the boardroom

Succeeding in business without really trying is easy when you listen to Bing

1953) emerged out of Samaresh Basu's own experiences of urban slum life concentrated around the jute mills of Bengal and the trade union movement that grew around them

are beautifully expressed in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins

and work—incapacity brought on by a complex interplay between biology

step-by-step guidance that fits your lifestyle

Not an ounce of desire in sight

But then his little sister disappears

the war-queen Coo-ee-oh

Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Graham Swift’s Waterland to the archetypal ‘folk horror’ film The Wicker Man…

one designed to help many more children succeed

and his fiction described as that which "has always examined what makes life worth living" (Washington Post Book World)