"Religion lies at the heart of the human experience. The great faiths--Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism--together may account for up to six billion of the world's nearly seven billion people. For all the differences between their beliefs--or between them and followers of Japanese Shinto or animistic faiths in Africa--these adherents seek the same fulfilment from their religious experience: a feeling of connection with the universe,...

"A young boy is determined to create the perfect cake, but when his baking doesn't go quite as planned, he learns to embrace the unexpected"--

Panda tries to follow a butterfly over a mountain, but the slippery, snowy slope makes it difficult to climb.

A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.

In a small town in New England, a girl has an affair with her schoolteacher. Amy Goodrow lives with her protective single mother and the novel examines the way the scandal affects their relationship.