In Kimberly Duffy’s historical romance novel "The Weight of Air", circus performers fight to recapture their identities. Behind the twinkling lights of the circus lies a hidden world of pain and longing. Ever since her mother abandoned... Read More

Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir "Choosing Family" blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the... Read More

The twenty-three fabulist and fantasy stories collected in "This Side of the Divide" involve cowboys, the desert, coyotes, and arroyos; they remake old legends through uncommon lore in a gesture that counters cultural erasure. In the... Read More

In Patricia Raybon’s stirring mystery novel "Double the Lies", a Black theologian-turned-private detective becomes embroiled in the murder of a white stunt pilot. Annalee Spain left university teaching behind to become a private... Read More

Ana Maria Spagna’s fascinating true crime book "Pushed" investigates the possible mass murder of a group of Chinese immigrants by a mob of Indigenous people. While a mob may have pushed the immigrants to their deaths, the book explores... Read More

A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor... Read More

A girl born with an uncommon gift faces ostracization and exploitation in the thrilling historical novel The Midwife’s Touch. For women in China’s family, pale hair is a foreboding sign. It hints to a magical inheritance stretching... Read More

First published in 1922, Cicely Hamilton’s science fiction novel "Theodore Savage" follows English society’s descent into savagery after a war wipes out its civilization. Theodore Savage is a model of a modern middle-class... Read More