Connie Schultz Books in Order

Schultz collects newspaper columns exploring family, love, work, politics, and social inequalities through personal experience and encounters with ordinary people. Stories about single parenthood, finding love later in life, service workers, and civic disagreements connect everyday events with broader questions of empathy and responsibility.

Schultz recounts campaigning alongside her husband Sherrod Brown during his Senate race while navigating a new marriage and her own journalism career. The memoir examines campaign pressures, altered relationships with reporters, family demands, and expectations placed on the spouse of a political candidate.

In an Ohio town in 1957, a promising student and a basketball player plan college and a future together until pregnancy changes their choices. Their family story follows ambitions deferred, concealed truths, and the ways successive generations inherit or challenge the compromises of their parents.

A bully wearing a troll costume makes Lola doubt her appearance and change the way she behaves. Encouragement from her mother and a favorite bookseller helps her remember her own strengths, find the courage to respond, and consider the place kindness might have in confronting cruelty.