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Retirement is a time of peace--the golden years. It is when our narrator expects to live out her pleasant, quiet life, until. . . She finds a body in her potting shed near the woods behind her lovely garden and suddenly finds her peace and quiet invaded by international crime, federal agents, and, shockingly, her own incarceration. Unweave this web of intrigue throughout this unimaginable intrusion on. . . her "golden years.

Based on a local crime and set against the lull before everything changed for America in the summer of 2001, this novel looks at people battered by the happenstance of their own lives and by the defining event of the turn of the century, the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. The novel is concerned with how people survive and how some even manage to reach a state of grace.

Divorces are fascinating-unless they're yours. This is the story of one divorce, told by one of its participants, who discovers that divorce is truly the art of losing, an art, as it turns out, that no one masters or even handles very well. Experience the death of Jimmy's marriage, told against the backdrop of crime and obsession, as narrated in this quietly compelling novel.

Syracuse: A Novel is both a love story and an initiation narrative about a young woman trying desperately to understand herself and her choices in a world and at a time where there are few role models other than sex-pots or wives and mothers. Living on her own, Liz Brown must make decisions about love and sex and intelligence and work and friendships, decisions that she is not always well equipped to make. Sitting in a cold shower, drinking gi...

Familiar with life on the shores of Cape Cod and New Jersey, the author, Janet Hubbs, explores the idea of living at the edge of the human world in this short collection of poems aptly named, A Year at the Shore. As she concludes in the volume's title poem: "And the waves move back and forth while the years go round.