Liz Rosenberg

Tobias's father is different from other dads, not only because he is a tyrannosaurus but also because he is busy all of the time, but when disaster looms during Field Day at Tobias's school, his dad comes through.

From start to finish, Eve's yard sale was a disaster. It had hammered rain all night long and the dreaded Early Bird bargain hunters started ringing her doorbell at dawn. But that was just for starters. Because that's the day Eve's husband Chuck decided to disappear from her life. He just walked out the door and didn't come back. What does a woman do when she's left to contend with a broken heart, two dogs, two children, an aging mother who moves...

A biography of the author of "Little Women" describes how she struggled to achieve her dream of becoming an author and discusses her private life and her accompishments.

Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the child that they wanted so much.

"Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family's poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted...