You meant more than life to me. I lived through you not knowing, not knowing I was living. I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there. No one to appreciate me. The legality of it upset a chair. Many times to celebrate we were called together and where we had been there was nothing there, nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely, leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering, in an...

"Wandering Across America chronicles the 2015 Great American Road Trip of Kathy and Larry Grimaldi. The journey fulfilled a lifelong dream of driving cross country and exploring familiar landmarks, as well as some out-of-the-way stops along the trail." --

Hermann Hesse's stories inspired nonconformity and a yearning for universal values to supplant the political fanaticism tearing Europe apart. Initially, critics thought his work inaccessible to Americans, but the counterculture of the 1960s--and subsequent generations of admirers--emphatically proved the opposite. Gunnar Decker weaves together previously unavailable sources to offer a unique interpretation of the life and work of Hermann Hesse. Drawing...

"A pot of Jasmine tea lilts on a shelf by an open window. Enter an oasis of possibility." --

"Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Haardt Mencken, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead. A precocious child, Mayfield befriended H. L. Mencken in college, then visited with the Fitzgeralds and hobnobbed with the literati while traveling in Europe after a failed marriage in the 1920s. Returning to Alabama during the Depression, she briefly ran the family...