A man revisits an ill-fated love affair in the gritty, tragedy-infused Atlantic City novel "Love in a Dark Place". A former lover reflects on his lost partner in Geoffrey Douglas’s historical novel "Love in a Dark Place", about... Read More

A girl comes of age in a time of war, holding on to memories of her city as it once existed, in the poignant historical novel "We Walked On". Lebanon’s civil war unites a teacher and student in Thérèse Soukar Chehade’s illuminating... Read More

A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

In Jessica Levine’s heartfelt coming-of-age novel "Three Cousins", college roommates bond while figuring out who to become and how to love. In 1976 at Yale, three cousins share off-campus housing. Excited by the new year, they bring... Read More

A Native American line of uncommon women endure the Spanish conquest in Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez’s piercing historical novel "Where Rabbits Gathered". In 1598 in New Spain, an expedition gathers to colonize the lands that constitute... Read More

A woman returns to her roots in Zilla Jones’s entrancing historical novel "The World So Wide", about lost love amid a revolution. In 1983, Felicity—half Black, half white—is a renowned Canadian opera singer. Her success doesn’t... Read More

Moving to a cottage in the countryside unsettles a boy in Maggie O’Farrell’s fantasy story "The Boy Who Lost His Spark". Jem misses the city. He struggles with school: A learning disability is hinted at, and he’s prone to... Read More

Abused in her childhood and taught to believe that she doesn’t deserve love, a woman seeks independence in Sarah Jollien-Fardel’s heartbreaking novel "My Favorite". After a village doctor ignored the truth about her injuries, Jeanne... Read More