The sweet by and by
Jeanne Mackin
As journalist Helen West is researching an article on Maggie Fox, the founder of American Spiritualism, she comes to believe that the spirit of her dead lover is trying to communicate with her.

by John Murray (2003)
In this remarkably assured debut collection, doctors, scientists, explorers, and collectors face the emotional battles of love, loss, and obsession in exotic locations.
Jeanne Mackin
As journalist Helen West is researching an article on Maggie Fox, the founder of American Spiritualism, she comes to believe that the spirit of her dead lover is trying to communicate with her.
Jennifer Solow
A Manhattan kleptomaniac remembers her childhood spent in her uncle's Madison Avenue department store, where she lived a fairy-tale existence before her recruitment into an organized South American shoplifting ring.
Jodi Picoult
Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared, but she remembers nothing. In the wake of those tragic events, she has lost not one parent, but two: her father is in an asylum, and now she lives with her grandmother - who finds it too painful to talk about what happened. Ten years on, Jenna is the only one who still seems to care. And she is determined to seek the truth, no matter how shocking and life-changing it might be ... -- page 4 of cover.
Doris Mortman
Callie Jamieson has a mysterious link to the past-she has the same disturbing dreams her mother had, ones that drove her mother eventually to suicide. But Callie is determined not to let them destroy her life, too. They're under control until the death of her ex-lover sends Callie on a quest to find out the truth. Her search intensifies her dreams, and leads her to an old-money New York family with a revered and respected name, to secrets that someone will kill to protect, and to a passionate love she never expected. Before and Again explores the fascinating issues of memory's long reach...and the hold the past can have on the present.