Ben Aitken’s "The Marmalade Diaries", is about becoming housemates with a much older stranger during Britain’s second Covid-19 lockdown. Aitken met Winnie in October of 2020. Winnie’s children were concerned about their... Read More

An impulsive decision forces a clandestine order to take protective measures in Paraic O’Donnell’s surreal novel "The Maker of Swans". For as long as she can remember, Clara has lived at the manor house at the edge of the lake.... Read More

Shannon Gonyou announced her desire to convert to Judaism on the way to a Christmas celebration: this is the first appealing revelation of her thoughtful memoir, "Since Sinai". Raised Catholic because of a promise made to her birth... Read More

The comics anthology "Voices That Count" features nine stories that illuminate the challenges of being a woman in today’s world. This is an English translation of a Spanish publication. While the women involved in writing and drawing... Read More

In Nancy Nau Sullivan’s cozy mystery novel "Mission Improbable: Vietnam", two women in search of their families’ stories forge a sisterhood—and consider the human impacts of wars. Jean’s mother was Vietnamese, but Jean doesn’t... Read More

Set in a small Midwestern town, the novel "The Griefmaker" follows two men through their family trials. In George Gurley’s novel "The Griefmaker", a small town is polarized over plans for the local land. The Tenbrooks once owned a... Read More

Paul Miller-Melamed examines the origins of World War I in his historical survey "Misfire". Popular history suggests that World War I began when a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June of 1914.... Read More

Those fallible kings who are left standing witness the storied rise of their indomnitable queens in Mindi Meltz’s stunning fantasy novel The Queen’s Rain, the third book of the After Ever After series. King Sol is dead, and Sirenia... Read More