In Patricia Raybon’s stirring mystery novel "Double the Lies", a Black theologian-turned-private detective becomes embroiled in the murder of a white stunt pilot. Annalee Spain left university teaching behind to become a private... Read More

Ana Maria Spagna’s fascinating true crime book "Pushed" investigates the possible mass murder of a group of Chinese immigrants by a mob of Indigenous people. While a mob may have pushed the immigrants to their deaths, the book explores... Read More

A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor... Read More

A girl born with an uncommon gift faces ostracization and exploitation in the thrilling historical novel The Midwife’s Touch. For women in China’s family, pale hair is a foreboding sign. It hints to a magical inheritance stretching... Read More

First published in 1922, Cicely Hamilton’s science fiction novel "Theodore Savage" follows English society’s descent into savagery after a war wipes out its civilization. Theodore Savage is a model of a modern middle-class... Read More

Set in Newfoundland, Violet Browne’s evocative, lyrical novel "This Is the House That Luke Built" is about a woman from a small fishing village who loses her husband at sea. The novel traces fifty years in Rose’s life via brief,... Read More

In Franco Aureliani’s charming graphic novel "Fae and the Moon", a girl pulls the moon from the sky, hoping that it will bring her mother home to her. Fae lives in her little house with the company of two rats, Frik and Frak, and one... Read More

Wayne Johnston’s moving, often funny memoir Jennie’s Boy concerns his hardscrabble Newfoundland childhood, which was marked by chronic illness. Although Jenny married Art, “the first educated man she’d ever met,” to elevate... Read More