A father’s balding inspires far-flung, humorous adventures in Jörg Mϋhle’s winsome chapter book When Dad’s Hair Took Off. A child narrates this vibrant story about the fate of their father’s hair: wanting “a life of its... Read More

In Juan Cárdenas’s novel "The Devil of the Provinces", a man returns to his rural hometown, encountering questions with no ready answers. After losing his job abroad, a biologist has no choice but to return to Colombia and accept a... Read More

Subtle moments of realization reveal the fault lines in otherwise average lives in Halle Hill’s emotional, devastating short story collection "Good Women". Often centered in the lives of women and girls, this is a collection about... Read More

Impelled by a lifelong fascination with the ties between spirituality and travel, Lori Erickson has visited and written about holy sites across the globe. In "Every Step Is Home", she focuses on her home country, visiting sacred places... Read More

Jamie Bruesehoff’s thoughtful book Raising Kids Beyond the Binary explores issues of gender identity from a personalized, Christian perspective. With elements of a memoir, this is a clear guide to understanding gender identities... Read More

Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India along with the ensuing violence amid the region’s Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Beyond this time of ravaged independence and the 1947... Read More

In Christine Lai’s haunting novel "Landscapes", a wounded woman contends with memories, artifacts, loss, and hope. Penelope is an English country estate’s archivist and librarian; she’s been there for twenty-two years. Her partner,... Read More

As humans wage war on each other and on nature, a visionary Wisconsin forester discovers a poisoned gift within himself in B. Pladek’s historical novel "Dry Land". Rand trained to be a forester after losing his beloved marshland to... Read More