An undocumented teenager is charged with manslaughter and works to remake her life in Mona Alvarado Frazier’s searing novel "The Garden of Second Chances". At seventeen, Juana is sent to a Southern California juvenile correctional... Read More

In Stine Pilgaard’s novel "My Mother Says", an eccentric woman who faces roadblocks in her academic career and relationships uses humor to sidestep her pain. After breaking up with her zookeeper girlfriend over their age gap and their... Read More

In Ken Sparling’s meditative, quizzical novel "Not Anywhere, Just Not", a woman searches for meaning after her husband’s mysterious disappearance. An aging couple leads a quiet life, referring to themselves as “the boy and the... Read More

An arranged marriage becomes a nightmare for an unwitting Nigerian woman in Adorah Nworah’s novel "House Woman". When Nna goes home to visit his unconventional but loving parents, he is surprised to find that they have arranged for him... Read More

A girl raised by Russian immigrants in an Appalachian mining community encounters hardships and love in Mary Kay Zuravleff’s evocative historical novel "American Ending". In a western Pennsylvania coal mining town in the early 1900s,... Read More

At sixty and retired, Marianne Bohr and her husband felt fit and ready for adventure. Thus, they planned to hike the famed, daunting Grande Randonnée 20. "The Twenty" covers their 124-mile trek along the spine of Corsica, which... Read More

The moving memoir "Watching for Dragonflies" is a wife and caregiver’s tale of contending with a spouse’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis. In Suzanne Marriott’s memoir "Watching for Dragonflies", lessons are mined from a decade of... Read More

Set in a colorful parallel world, the fantasy novel "The Byways" follows a girl who gets lost in order to find herself. In Mary Pascual’s exciting fantasy novel "The Byways", a lost girl gathers courage as she pursues self-discovery in... Read More