The lives of people of multiple faiths intersect to edifying effect in the heady novel "The Double-Edged Sword". In F. Michele Ramsey’s illuminating historical novel "The Double-Edged Sword", a tenacious woman experiences romance... Read More

"Exit Tickets" is a tense, grounded novel about human struggles in the public school system. In Kenneth Chanko’s intriguing novel "Exit Tickets", teachers and students navigate feelings of grief and obsession. Martin, a first-year... Read More

A woman explains her personal successes to a journalist in the reflective novel Behind the Mirror. In Bridget Budd’s inspiring novel Behind the Mirror, a woman with lifelong emotional challenges explains her gradual process of personal... Read More

A woman wrestles with renewed grief and the unknowns in her family’s history in the wrenching novel "One Beautiful Year of Normal". In Sandra Griffith’s emotive novel "One Beautiful Year of Normal", a brief period of exceptional... Read More

Sumptuous descriptions of new cultural elements vivify "Shaila’s Dance", a thoughtful coming-of-age novel. A young Indian woman searches for her identity in Mohini Dasari’s perceptive novel "Shaila’s Dance", about dreams, travel,... Read More

A girl once subject to the suspicion of others finds her worst fears realized when her brother is caught in a fire in the fascinating psychological thriller "Will End in Fire". A troubled woman unravels after a house fire in Nicole... 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

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