"A storyteller "of great humanity and huge heart" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers' hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author's accomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient...

"Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She fills the void with music and memories, but the past becomes all too present when her late father's journals are found in the ruins of a shipwreck. Elizabeth goes through the diaries with the help of Morgan, a deliquent teen doing community service. Entry by entry, the unlikely friends are drawn into a world far removed from their own -- Porphyry Island on Lake Superior-- and begin...

When the bodies of a murdered woman and infant wash into the shallows of Lake Superior, Kate Granger, who has seen this woman in her dreams, sets out to unravel a centuries-old mystery that, when the truth is revealed, finally rights the wrongs of the past.