Meet New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark when she signs her latest thriller, On the Street Where You Live . A sheltered teen with provincial Midwestern roots, she was completely unprepared for Bennington circa 1965, a campus rife with drugs, sex and bohemianism. In our highly mobile modern age, it's rare to spend one's entire life in one place. Yet for a group of elderly women who have lived all of their years in Troy Hill, a small working class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, any other life seems unimaginable. Meet journalist Clare Ansberry as she discusses the back-fence virtues of faith and friendship of The Women of Troy Hill .
Corona is a different place.
Avelyn is about to be elevated to sainthood by the very church that once proclaimed him a heretic, and King Danube has asked Jilseponie Wyndon, the outlaw hero of the Demon War, to become his Queen. But trouble looms for Jilseponie, for the child she lost never died, and was instead raised in secret by the Queen of the Elves to be a weapon. His name is Aydrian, and he is a boy so hungry for fame, power and immortality that he will change Corona forever. Plenty, as intrepid adventurer Bill Bryson makes clear. In a Sunburned Country .