Grandmothers’ lives change when they gather to care for their grieving family members in the moving novel "Little Ships". Grief has an illuminating effect in Sandra Scofield’s affecting multigenerational novel "Little Ships". After... Read More

The sensational memoir "Up by the Bootstraps" covers intelligence community exploits and evolutions in a crisp and vivid manner. Sean M. McWeeney’s robust, impressive memoir "Up by the Bootstraps" recounts decades spent working in the... Read More

Dual storylines connect across time in Erin Bartels’s historical novel "The Lady with the Dark Hair", about women who expand their visions of themselves through art. In midlife, Esther cares for her schizophrenic mother, a reclusive... Read More

Robert Lane’s compelling literary detective novel "Searching for Dali" unravels the mystery of a missing painting. Veronica is a multimillionaire whose memories are slipping away. She has “die” penciled into her phone calendar. Her... Read More

A rare glimpse into the culture of the Middle Ages, Hana Videen’s whimsical book The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary dives into medieval manuscripts about animals both real and fantastical. Inflected by Christian beliefs and accounts... Read More

The unknown and serendipity get the last word in the tragicomic novel "Crossing Lake Pontchartrain", about a writer’s midlife crisis. In Arthur Byrd’s heartfelt novel "Crossing Lake Pontchartrain", a man pursues artistic liberation... Read More

A boy who died and saw heaven as a child grapples with his perceptions of the experience, Christianity, and his newfound sexual orientation in Eric Schlich’s humorous, introspective novel "Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife". Eli... Read More

Marcia A. Zug’s detailed social history You’ll Do covers the evolution of marriage via its economic and cultural motivators. Though the book examines other non-romantic motivations for love, such as colonists marrying Indigenous... Read More