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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

A love letter to, and a history of, this most important and pleasurable place

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Steinbeck's Ghost

Set in Steinbeck's home town of Salinas, CA, the novel is an exploration of where one actually finds a home

Steinbeck's Ghost

Bridge of Time

The worst field trip ever turns into a time-travel adventure when best friends Joan Lee and Lee Jones wake up in 1864, and their tour guide is a young reporter named Sam Clemens

Bridge of Time

The Haunting of Charles Dickens

Meg's brother Orion has gone missing, so she and family friend Charles Dickens set off in search of him through London's seamy underworld

The Haunting of Charles Dickens

Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom

A history of the classroom through the lens of my own school experience, and a call for a renewed commitment to public education

Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom

After the Gold Rush

Each of these stories is about the peril and privilege of being a parent

After the Gold Rush

Fliegelman's Desire

My first novel, about an urban wanderer, what I like to think of as a tribute to Italo Calvino, Stanley Elkin, and Franz Kafka

Fliegelman's Desire

First to Leave Before the Sun

My friend Dave Tilton and I each wrote novellas that end up in Modesto, California; mine's about Okies and Dave's is about God and baseball

First to Leave Before the Sun