In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades... Read More

Based on Dac Trung Tran’s childhood in Vietnam, this picture book illustrates the invisible hand of a mother’s love guiding her son’s steps. A child wakes early; his mother has already left for work, leaving him a note listing what... Read More

The history of the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-government is at the center of Nicole F. Watts’s riveting book "Republic of Dreams". The modern countries of the Middle East were created when the Age of Empires came to an end... Read More

In "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told", Keith Richotte Jr. examines the legal history behind the federal government’s assertions of authority over almost six hundred tribal nations. This book exposes the fascinating, paradoxical way... Read More

Women’s friendships are at the center of Amy DeBellis’s coming-of-age novel "All Our Tomorrows". In a postpandemic near future, three women of different backgrounds struggle to make their ways in New York City. Janet, a Korean... Read More

Comedy stirs between like-minded writers and meddlesome matchmakers in John J. Jacobson’s romance novel "Cupid on the Loose", about Californians who bond over Shakespeare. Billy is an aspiring novelist with a penchant for old-fashioned... Read More

"Bookstore Romance" collects diverse photographs and stories of couples who celebrated their engagements or weddings in a bookstore. The snappy chapters open by introducing the couples in terms of how they met, why the bookstores they... Read More