The inspirational memoir "The Table of Life" is about comfort food and a search for personal empowerment and authenticity. Motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and advocate Tommi A. Vincent’s heartfelt self-help guide "The Table of... Read More

Polarized political interests and religious extremes are emphasized in Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise, a historical tome set against a backdrop of verdant landscapes, tribal ceremonies, insurrections, and perilous trade.... Read More

The human beings affected by World War I are centered in the moving historical novel "An American Nurse in Paris". In John F. Andrews’s affecting historical novel "An American Nurse in Paris", a journalist becomes a Red Cross army... Read More

Éliette Abécassis’s taut and poignant novel uses reverse chronology to explore significant moments in the lives of a Parisian couple. Jules and Alice meet in the Jardin du Luxembourg in 1955, when Alice is eighteen and Jules is... Read More

In Mariana Travacio’s compact and lyrical novel "All That Dies in April", a woman leaves the parched landscape of her village above the Argentinian pampas to search for the sea. For fourteen years, Lina begged her husband Relicario to... Read More

In Jacqueline Harpman’s riveting novel "I Who Have Never Known Men", a girl emerges from dehumanizing confinement into a troubled and deserted landscape. Following a terrifying event called “the disaster,” thirty-nine women are... Read More

In Hiromi Kawakami’s transfixing novel "The Third Love", a Tokyo woman evades unhappy realities through her complex, sensual dreams. Even as a child, Riko was drawn to charming Naa-chan. While the “enfolding warmth” that she felt... Read More

Linda Segtnan’s haunting true crime book delves into the 1948 murder of a Swedish girl and the intense psychological effects Segtnan experienced while researching the crime. In 2018, Segtnan was working on a project at the National... Read More