“124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were ...

When I got to read the book, “Shivers! The Pirate Who’s Afraid of Everything,” by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White (Harper Collins), I was really excited. When I got home, I spent a half-hour ...