In Minrose Gwin’s rich coming-of-age novel "Beautiful Dreamers", a precocious girl navigates the tense atmospheres of 1950s Mississippi. After her father abandons her family, Mem and her mother, Virginia, return to the small Gulf Coast... Read More

Métis storyteller Chris La Tray’s expansive memoir "Becoming Little Shell" began as a compassionate inquiry into his father’s rejection of the family’s Native American heritage. Haunted by questions of identity after his... Read More

Tim Newby’s biography of forgotten baseball great Pete Browning, whose Louisville Slugger nickname inspired the bat brand, recounts his athletic feats and troubled life. The repeat batting champion was one of the greatest hitters... Read More

A mix of memoir with literary criticism, Lawrence Wells’s "Ghostwriter" dives into the Shakespeare authorship debate from the perspective of a skeptic working alongside a staunch believer. Wells was approached to ghostwrite a book for... Read More

Intergenerational family secrets reemerge in Defne Suman’s devastating novel "Summer Heat". Melike is a Turkish art historian who agrees to guide Petro, a documentarian, through Byzantine churches. But intimacy with Petro challenges... Read More

In her memoir, cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Muriel Fox celebrates thirty crusaders in the women’s movement whom history shouldn’t forget. Fox shares perspective on the movement in which she played a key... Read More

A determined, empathetic woman works to preserve the stories that others dismiss in Valérie Perrin’s scintillating novel "Forgotten on Sunday". Orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandparents, Justine could be cynical at... Read More