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

Yoga’s reputation is often soft and feminine, all yoga pants and calming breathing. As a result, many skilled, dedicated athletes see yoga as something outside their realm, but Ryanne Cunningham shows how the intensity and adaptability... 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

Morbidly engrossing, the novel probes the lengths women go to in order to be seen as beautiful. Kate Howard’s "The Ornatrix" is a dazzling exploration of the meaning and conveyance of feminine beauty. Flavia lives with the blemish of a... Read More

These stories deserve a cherished place in the canon of Jewish literature. Oedipus in Brooklyn gathers stories and personal essays from Blume Lempel, a Yiddish-speaking refugee who escaped the Holocaust in America but who never stopped... Read More

A small triumph, a growing awareness, a pleasant irony: these stories draw forth satisfaction. The nine stories in Sam Allingham’s Great American Songbook are a brilliant array of forms, character and relationship types, prose styles,... Read More

A geologist celebrates the beauty of a park and exposes threats it faces. In "Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park", Colorado State University geology professor Ellen Wohl characterizes the park as “a protected island of... Read More