Nancy Bilyeau’s "The Fugitive Colours" is a suspenseful novel set within the London art world of the 1760s. In Spitalfields, amid London’s Huguenot community, entrepreneur Genevieve struggles to keep her silk design business going.... Read More

"Sinkhole"’s murder mystery takes place in the swampy hinterlands of Florida, with emphasis on teenage trauma and buried secrets brought to light. In June of 2001, Michelle, a native of the backwater Lorida, comes home for the first... Read More

In Jill Frayne’s heartbreaking novel Why I’m Here, a teenager’s struggle to find her place in the world requires making difficult choices. Helen is a social worker who is asked to help Gale, a ticking time bomb of a teenager who... Read More

Eleanor Ford’s enticing cookbook "The Nutmeg Trail" explores the global history and use of spices—not just in cuisine, but in medicinal remedies, incense, and aphrodisiacs. Ford notes that the spice trade lured explorers for... Read More

Set in the 1970s, Brian Lebeau’s psychological thriller "A Disturbing Nature" follows a serial killer’s trail of bodies in New England. Francis Palmer, a chief investigator with the FBI, solves mass murder cases. He discovered... Read More

Marcie Roman’s novel "Journey to the Parallels" centers on a family who are trying to escape an alternate reality’s totalitarian regime. Every morning on the ride to school, Amber’s mother urges her children to wave to the... Read More

In Kent Quaney’s captivating novel "One Breath from Drowning", pursuits of love and self-fulfillment are complicated by family, religion, finances, and addiction. Sydney is the setting for this detailed story about a thorny romance... Read More

Millions of years of evolution led to remarkable animal adaptations—adaptations that, as UK broadcaster and wildlife documentarian Patrick Aryee demonstrates in his enjoyable, informative book, scientists draw inspiration from,... Read More