Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

In Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Sara Shepard’s thriller "Gaslight", a power-seeking cult exploits its members. Having escaped her controlled past, Rebecca lives a quiet life with her husband and two children in Nevada. This changes when... Read More

Focused on its heroine’s empowerment, "The Three Layers of a Moment" is a lush, satisfying entry into a domestic series. In Samar Reine’s novel "The Three Layers of a Moment", a woman with deep roots in New Mexico contends with her... Read More

In Elaine McCluskey’s novel "The Gift Child", a former news photographer explores her genealogy following a mysterious disappearance. When her cousin, Graham, vanishes, Harriet is drawn back into the orbit of her narcissistic father,... Read More

In the historical novel "Invisible No More", an ambitious journalist discovers the truth about a forgotten sports hero. In Scott Pitoniak and Rick Burton’s optimistic historical novel "Invisible No More", a promising journalist... Read More

In the unusual novel "The Forever Young Prisoner", an imprisoned man thrills in a chance to investigate a mysterious fellow inmate. In Marcus Lessard’s mysterious novel "The Forever Young Prisoner", an affable inmate investigates an... Read More

A spider-thief, a slave, and a woman with hidden darkness inside team up to save the world in Brenda J. Pierson’s Arabian-inspired fantasy novel "Joythief". Mariq is a pampered princess in Kuriza by day and a gifted spider-thief for... Read More

First published in 1933, the new version of "Romania", edited by Ernest Latham Jr., compiles more than three hundred images by the late photographer Kurt Hielscher, taken during visits from 1931 to 1932. It’s an intriguing... Read More