A mourning girl summers in a town that’s caught in cycles of abuse in the shocking historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic". In Patti C. Smith’s haunting historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic", a devastating murder... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

Innate chemistry helps ferry a couple through their challenges in the exciting romance novel "And They Had a Great Fall". A guarded widow and a movie star keep their budding relationship a secret in Shelby Saville’s moving romance... Read More

Meditative and sumptuous, "Latitudes" is Jean McNeil’s brooding memoir covering travels to remote landscapes; it ruminates on the unsettling impacts of climate change. McNeil is an inquisitive, restless traveler who crafts beautiful... Read More

For the central trio in Jenny Haysom’s astute and appealing novel "Keep", held and released secrets and possessions threaten to disrupt the course of life. Harriet, a poet in her eighties, is slipping into dementia; ““if this last... Read More

Tim Newby’s biography of forgotten baseball great Pete Browning, whose Louisville Slugger nickname inspired the bat brand, recounts his athletic feats and troubled life. The repeat batting champion was one of the greatest hitters... Read More

Sharon Dilworth’s "To Be Marquette" is an absorbing coming-of-age novel about a woman’s freshman year in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In the 1970s, Molly chooses a college in Marquette to escape the freeways and factories of her... Read More