Set in Queen Esther’s court, Tessa Afshar’s enthralling romance novel "The Royal Artisan" is about family secrets and second chances. After losing her parents, Sazana rebuilds her life, finding quiet joy in her work as a potter,... Read More

In Jonathan Bockian’s captivating historical novel "What Was Forbidden", a skeptic is murdered, his sister tries to bring his killer to justice, and a community is changed forever. In seventeenth-century Venice in the Jewish ghetto,... Read More

In Gina Butson’s pensive novel "The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds", a woman evades her grief. After her mountaineering father’s death, Thea, a New Zealander, backpacks in Guatemala, falling in with a drug-fueled community of... Read More

Women, blue-collar workers, and Indigenous people in Mexico respond in hallucinatory ways to the violence of men and abusive authority figures in Elena Garro’s intricate short story collection "The Week of Colors". Incorporating... Read More

Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved... Read More

A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel "Becoming Felicity". A lifelong resident of Loon, Cass is devastated to learn that its library will close without... Read More

Catharina Coenen’s memoir-in-essays "Unexploded Ordnance" draws on history, biology, philosophy, and linguistics to explore social trauma and unspoken, inherited memories. A German immigrant, Coenen moved to the United States for... Read More

Hanna Park’s haunting fantasy novel "Resurrection" is about sacrifice, legacy, and the perilous seduction of power. Expanding the Beyond the Faerie Rath series into deeper realms of myth and human consequence, the narrative moves... Read More