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"Anchored by Love" by Marie-Claire Moriah Wright and David Saccoh Wright is a heartwarming multigenerational family saga. The book explores the lives of Asher and Charlotte Kingsley and their children as they grow through life’s milestones.

The story begins with Asher and Charlotte’s teenage years. Asher Kingsley, a confident and ...Read more

It happens once in a while: you think of a clever twist of phrase, one that’s not only funny but insightful. Maybe you were in the shower, in the car, doing the dishes. “I should write that down,” you think. But, of course, most of us never do.

Not so with Piotr Bardzik. He’s made a point of getting it all down on paper, and you’ll be...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Scott Redd watched as five young men juked the basketball around defenders, putting up jump shots as music boomed and people trickled in and out. On a typical night, open gym at Sabathani Community Center draws 40-50 people from around the neighborhood.

To Redd, Sabathani’s chief executive, the scene in front of him is part of ...Read more

The 5-year-old child sat sullen before the birthday cake, refusing to blow out the candles. “Wishes don’t come true,” the child said. “I wish to be a boy and it’s not coming true.”

The child cried at the hairdresser’s because the cut wasn’t short enough and vomited at a kindergarten classmate’s girls-only party, pleading to go...Read more

'THE CONJURING: LAST RITES'

Rated R for bloody/violent content and terror.

What it’s about: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one of their last cases with their daughter Judy leading the way.

The kid attractor factor: This haunting horror movie is not for kids, but maybe some appeal for teens.

Good lessons/bad lessons...Read more

Q. My ex and I broke up 6 months ago. We have two kids, and we share custody. She has just informed me that she wants to start dating other people and I’m going a little crazy. It’s only been 6 months! Isn’t this too soon? What’s good ex-etiquette?

A. Too soon for whom? You or the kids? Probably for both, actually, but I’m not ...Read more

I’m stealthy about slipping outside each morning to retrieve newspapers from the driveway. I dread someone driving by, lowering their window and yelling, “Get with the times!”

Oh, darlin’, we’re with the Times — and the Journal and the Star and the News. Two papers in print and four online.

Back when an apple was still a fruit and ...Read more

Open the first page of Ann Hardcastle Kilgore’s "The White Cheyenne" for a quick peek, and you might find yourself reading long past sundown. Kilgore — a South Texas rancher turned novelist — writes like someone who has hauled hay and watched the stars from a back‑of‑beyond pasture, then carried those sounds and silences to the page. ...Read more

As a reader of "TART," you may have come for the promise of unabashed shagging and haute cuisine, but stay for the writing, which is crisp and unapologetic, a hard dive into an excess of just about everything. “I’m a greedy person at my core,” our protagonist writes right up front. “I don’t want my job to be a means to an end; I want ...Read more

Annie Guest, a lawyer, mental health therapist and family caregiver renovated her home and recharged her life. Her debut book, "Design for Your Mind: How a Family Caregiver and Mental Health Therapist Renovated Her Home to Recharge Her Life—and Didn’t Break the Bank," is far more than a home makeover story.

An uplifting blend of memoir and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was arrested after stealing a car in East Los Angeles with three children inside, then crashing it in Malibu during a police pursuit Friday evening, officials confirmed.

The car, a light-colored sedan, was left running with three children inside at a 7-Eleven on East Olympic Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County ...Read more

'CAUGHT STEALING'

Rated R for strong violent content, pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and brief drug use.

What it’s about: A Manhattan bartender gets caught up in a drug deal/money grab and suffers the consequences.

The kid attractor factor: This is an adult crime caper, not much appeal for kids.

Good lessons/bad lessons: If you ...Read more

A woman once emailed to invite me to join her book club for lunch at a country club in Malibu. She offered to reserve a parking spot for me near the front door. It was a lovely gesture, but it would have been a 2,100-mile drive.

The trip would have taken four days, maybe five. I stop a lot for Diet Cokes.

Another reader wrote expressing ...Read more

Q. My mother butt called me last night and I overheard her badmouthing my wife. She was having a drink with her best friend and going off. At first, I didn’t know what was happening, but then I heard my wife’s name, recognized my mother’s voice and I was ticked off. My mother loves my ex and hates my wife, and this was obvious on the call....Read more

Joelle Babula’s debut novel "Infidelity Rules" is — yes! — a captivating read and a delicious, upbeat escape, but it is even more. Its engaging and iconoclastic protagonist breaks the rules with her unexpected depth of interiority that expands the sometimes-breezy genre of romance novels. Well-drawn characters, lots of humor, and insights ...Read more

Some scars don’t fade and some threats don’t disappear. They evolve, adapt and burrow into the cracks of modern life, waiting …

These thrillers don’t just tell stories, but rather dig up what we thought was buried — ideologies dressed in new skin, Cold War ghosts whispering through modern politics, conspiracies that fester until ...Read more

It’s 1944 in Nazi-occupied France, and Resistance operative Charlotte Denneau is quite literally a woman on the run. Pursued by the Gestapo through moonlit fields and sleepy villages, Charlotte carries critical secrets that could influence the impending Allied invasion. Across the English Channel, Lieutenant Philippe Gerard – a French pilot ...Read more