A percipient girl narrates her tumultuous life experiences in "Carnaval Fever", Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s lyrical, pulsing novel. In the 1990s, in Ecuador’s Afro-Ecuadorian neighborhood of Esmeraldas, Ainhoa lives at her grandmother’s... Read More

Janet Burroway’s prismatic historical novel "Simone in Pieces" follows a Belgian World War II refugee from her traumatic relocation to England to her later life in the United States. In 1940, nine-year-old Simone boards a “trawler”... Read More

Nineteenth-century gender restrictions are portrayed with focused eloquence in the startling historical novel "Silent Cauldron". In E. B. Moore’s disquieting historical novel "Silent Cauldron", a Quaker girl disguises herself as a boy... Read More

Shepard Marley’s Minor American Authors is a work of skillful literary mimicry that balances crafted prose with absurd descriptions and dialogue. Offbeat and engaging, Shepard Marley’s Minor American Authors anthologizes the work of... Read More

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