Jane Rosenman – författare

Andrea Barrett’s novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of western Massachusetts. When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke—friend of Reba’s childhood, friend of her heart—is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is the utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple and to the eccentric constellation of loved ones swirling around them.

The Power of Silence provides a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind—through don Juan's mesmerizing stories, the true meaning of sorcery and magic is finally revealed.Now, Castaneda’s ubiquitous teacher don Juan returns—wise, infuriating, capable of working miracles and playing practical jokes, and always seeking the wisdom of the warrior—to once again illuminate the far reaches of the human mind. His captivating stories and his visions—honed in the desert of Sonora, Mexico—share the vital and transcendental secrets of belief and self-realization. With unique genius, Castaneda unleashes the marvelous energy and imaginative force in the teachings of don Juan to show his readers that all wisdom, strength, and power lie within ourselves.

Two decades after writing the acclaimed Nickel Miseries and Sick Friends, Ivan Gold has broken his silence and produced a novel which brings back the character Jason Sams.Combining fiction and memoir about triumph over the blackness of alcoholism, Sams in a Dry Season tracks Jason as he drowns in liquor and then, after several eye-opening experiences, puts down the bottle for good.

From Simon & Schuster comes Ivan Gold's first novel, Sick Friends, re-released to accompany his triumphant return with Sams in a Dry Season.Introducing Jason Sams, a New York playboy and author, Sick Friends draws fictional and real experience into a story full of "wit, imagination, verbal ingenuity, and frankness" (Playboy).

Patrick O'Neil is a travel agent who never goes anywhere. His closest confidante, Sharon, is chain-smoking her way to singles hell, passing up man after man. His parents, proprietors of a suburban men's store whose fortunes are sagging more visibly than its customers, can't agree how best to interfere in their sons' lives. And his lover, Arthur (a nice golden retriever of a guy to whom Patrick can't quite commit), wants to cement their relationship by buying a house. Then a call comes in the middle of another sleepless night. Tony, Patrick's straight-as-an-arrow younger brother, has fallen in love with a beautiful lawyer who is turning him on to...opera. Unfortunately, she's not the woman he's already pledged to marry. Tony's life is a mess. Finally, the brothers have something in common.

Detective Justin Savile, the charming, black-sheep scion of one of Hillston's ruling families, investigates the murder of a state senator's wife and finds his life threatened when his pursuit becomes awkward