Katherine Lato: 9 books

Reeling from the unexpected death of her beloved husband, Ruth loses the opportunity to adopt her foster daughter. With her children grown, she faces middle-age with only an orange cat named Snowball to share her daily life.A phone call from a busy social worker changes everything. Eight-year-old...

Saying yes to everything is a common technique in improvisational theater because it makes life interesting. A group of American and British amateurs discover this while putting on a show in Edinburgh. The Craigslist Eight ensemble includes three brothers constantly betting over whose turn it is to...

Removed from any current political situation, this novel examines the influence of celebrity-worship on modern culture. In the world of Hierarchy, celebrities serve as leaders, judges and rulers of taste. The Guardian police force defends the status quo while ignoring lethal corporate competition....

With twenty-five years of experience as a software engineer, Riva focuses on the successful completion of important work and ignores management fads like wicket. Chuck has been at the company for three years, and knows that older workers like Riva can be difficult to motivate. They get stuck...

Estelle's joy in her pregnancy is tempered by an impending divorce. Was her husband habitually unfaithful or was it just the one time with Miriam? It shouldn’t matter, but she can’t move on without knowing. Working in Paris for a year is helping Miriam adjust to the loss of her husband. Spring...

Thirty-three-year-old Marty turns each stop on his route into a community event. Whether it's a Sunday afternoon poker game, a Thursday coffee gathering, or weekly chats with a lonely old man, he enjoys being with people. While his boss and family question his lack of ambition, Marty enjoys zipping...

During high school, Rich thought he'd change the world. Now he's stumped by the survey question, 'what you thought you'd be doing thirty years later.' Contrary to his ambitious plans to design computers to help the blind like his beloved grandfather, he struggles to hold on to a dead-end job and inspire...

"Yes, And..." is a common saying in improvisational theater, and a life philosophy that an ad hoc group performing improv in Edinburgh learns to apply to their lives. When the opportunity to perform at a larger theater occurs, one of the organizers grabs it, forcing the group to scramble...

Working in Paris for a year could help Miriam move on with life. She's off to an exciting start when she has a romantic night with a charming Frenchman, until she discovers he's married to her new boss, Estelle. Estelle finds the recent merger with an American firm upsetting. Her non-French...