This is a gripping story of a man’s struggle to survive AIDS, and a touching memoir about a relationship that ended too soon. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was still a new and misunderstood threat, Michael Ward’s partner, Mark... Read More

This is an inspirational memoir about a determined woman who faked it till she made it—and made it big. "Pressure Makes Diamonds" is Valerie Graves’s memoir, a story about an accomplished woman who is the epitome of grit. Graves... Read More

The first of a new series, "Enter by the Narrow Gate" follows a Detroit police detective and an Orthodox monk as they strive to solve two harrowing new mysteries in Santa Fe. Measured and restrained, the novel’s prose is rich with... Read More

In 1942, the forest of Brona Gora, Belarus, saw the mass execution of over 50,000 Jews. A lone survivor, sensitive and earnest twelve-year-old Esfir, recounts the emotional journey that brought her there and the warring hope and pain... Read More

In this follow-up to Melissa Lenhardt’s debut novel, Stillwater, detective Jack McBride finds himself embroiled in a new set of conflicts shortly after resolving his first case. McBride, an outsider to his adopted town of Stillwater,... Read More

"The Castrato" is an enjoyable portrait of post-Renaissance Italy told from a fresh and original point of view. Florence in 1698 is the backdrop for Joyce Pool’s "The Castrato", a sensitive tale of the joys and sorrows of life as a... Read More

A mind-bending literary Rorschach test of a novel, "An Elegant Theory" evades strict conclusions. Noah Milligan’s "An Elegant Theory" is a grand experiment of a novel, as much about the breathtaking grandeur of string theory and the... Read More

This is a heartbreaking and engrossing novelization of part of Chicago’s history. Elizabeth Kern’s "Fire Angels" is a novelization of the tragic 1958 fire that destroyed Chicago’s Our Lady of the Angels School and killed ninety-two... Read More