Cathy Gohlke examines spousal abuse and restored faith in "Night Bird Calling", an engrossing novel about a woman’s flight to rural Appalachia. In 1941, just after her mother’s death, Lilliana overhears her husband Gerald conspiring... Read More

This medical memoir is an encouraging starting point for healing, in particular in its wisdom about perpetrators often being victims, too. Julia W. Burns’s empathetic career memoir "Songs for the Forgotten" gathers patient stories from... Read More

With the biblical story of creation as their backdrop, each new natural element boasts that it is the best and the most loved, turning the peaceful garden upside down. Quarrels erupt between land and rain, plants and sun, and between... Read More

Set during the Crusades, "Balian d’lbelin" follows a heroic knight’s efforts to save the kingdom of Jerusalem. Helena P. Schrader’s riveting historical novel "Balian d’lbelin" is set during the Crusades and is filled by battles,... Read More

In the intelligent novel "The Flight of the Veil", a psychiatrist returns to childhood sites to reconcile his internal contradictions. In Bruce J. Berger’s reflective novel "The Flight of the Veil", a Holocaust survivor returns to his... Read More

"The Jellies and the Crunchers" is an encouraging picture book that promotes willingness to branch out from what one knows best. In Matt Bell’s hopeful picture book "The Jellies and the Crunchers", a mountainside town embraces change.... Read More

Set during World War II, Endō Shūsaku’s novel "Sachiko" shifts from the fated city of Nagasaki to the horrors of Auschwitz, developing versatile individual and intersecting perspectives with compassion. Christianity is not native to... Read More