Lightly Held Books

The Mikkelsons and their kids spread to the four winds in the 1990's, reflecting a newly global culture. Paul returns to teaching in order to help his family, but the Minnesota cabin is decaying and...

The Mikkelson kids, whose parents both went to college, are fortunate enough to be granted higher education. But no one realizes it can be dangerous, and not all of the kids want it. For Line, Marty...

Natural and man-made disasters uproot and claim the lives of millions during the 1980's: famine, earthquakes, cyclones, toxic leaks and a nuclear meltdown in Russia. In the United States,...

Newly independent, Line, Marty and Paul begin to take the world on its own terms. The shifting tectonic plates of the 1970's, however, stirred and shook culture, overturning the old values which...

A town of nine square blocks, surrounded by wheat fields along a railroad line in eastern North Dakota, makes an intense and magical world for Caroline (Line), Margaret (Marty) and Paul, the three...

Against a background of civil rights demonstrations, protests of the Vietnam war and the growing sense of the absurd fostered by the counter-culture, the Mikkelsons, Line, Marty and Paul, begin to...