Struggling to maintain a grasp on reality after his wife's suicide, a soul-searching and inebriated traveling salesman peddles beauty wares and quickies to lonely southern England housewives while his son waits in their car.

There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David, and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one.

In this novel the author explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances in their house, on the roadway, in the markets. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken,...

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box -- set aside by his father before his death five years earlier -- that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down -- but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.

Confronts timeless questions concerning what happens to our loved ones and ourselves after death through the communications of a dead son--Galen Stoller--with his father, Dr. K. Paul Stoller.