In Kate Marchant’s novel "Whistleblower", a young journalist chases a story about a revered football coach’s misconduct. Laurel is a junior at Garland, a southern California college, who believes herself to be forgettable. The Daily,... Read More

Spirited Clarice returns in Lauren Childs’s chapter book "Clarice Bean, Scram!", encountering a stray dog whose arrival inspires warm capers. Clarice—a curious, naïve, and high-strung girl—wants nothing quite so much as her older... Read More

In Sarit Yishai-Levi’s sprawling historical novel "The Woman Beyond the Sea", three generations of women consider what it means to love and the power of knowing your history. Although its chapters are narrated by a rotating cast, the... Read More

Out of the cloister and into the world, a young nun with a tragic past is presented with a chance for a new beginning in Anna Quinn’s novel "Angeline". After taking vows to escape losses that she cannot talk about, Angeline fades into... Read More

"The Reluctant Visionary" is a suspenseful novel in which a grandmother and her granddaughter believe they can impact the future. In Datta Groover’s novel "The Reluctant Visionary", two women linked by blood but separated by time are... Read More

In the empathetic novel The Residents’ Voice, a woman makes stunning breakthroughs in the study of dementia. In Pieta Valentine’s based-in-truth novel The Residents’ Voice, a physiotherapist does groundbreaking work with dementia... Read More

A teenager forges new bonds with people who help her to survive her troubled times in the poignant novel "Eat and Get Gas". A teenager navigates life in "Eat and Get Gas", J. A. Wright’s endearing novel about love, family flaws, and... Read More

The searching novel "Out of Wedlock" is about people’s overlapping and conflicting allegiances and committed relationships. A man discovers his true identity with the help of friends and lovers in Larry Lockridge’s novel "Out of... Read More