A young victim of terrorism watches over those she left behind in Linda N. Masi’s novel "Fine Dreams". Kubra loved running, the color pink, and studying to become an educator like her mother. After she becomes collateral damage in a... Read More

Melissa Pritchard follows the troubled life of the celebrated yet complex Florence Nightingale in her enthralling novel "Flight of the Wild Swan". Florence Nightingale would never have been happy in the life her mother wanted for her: a... Read More

An Indigenous woman goes missing, prompting interpersonal reckonings, in the emotionally hefty novel "Flotsam". The search for a missing woman evokes strong emotions in those investigating the crime in Patricia Boomsma’s mystery novel... Read More

In the surprising dystopian novel "Let Them Whimper", human imperfection might make the species worth saving after all. In K. Enterante’s shocking science fiction novel "Let Them Whimper", a handful of unlikely heroes fight to stop a... Read More

A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,... Read More

An actuary-turned-business-owner races the clock to find a killer in Antti Tuomainen’s thriller "The Beaver Theory". Henri’s life has become quite exciting of late: he moved in with his girlfriend, Laura, and her daughter; a sketchy... Read More

In Eric Z. Weintraub’s novel "South of Sepharad", a Jewish family faces separation and exile from the only home they’ve ever known. After centuries of rule, the Moors lose control over Spain to the Catholic monarchs Isabella and... Read More

Donna Russo explores the life of Vincent van Gogh through fresh, feminine eyes in her novel Vincent’s Women. An outcast since birth, Vincent grows from a lonely, sullen, and inquisitive child into an intense, restless adult whose poor... Read More