Rebecca Roque’s "Till Human Voices Wake Us" is an engrossing thriller about a girl looking for her friend’s murderer. When Silencia’s friend Alice drowned, everyone... Read More

What if monsters were real, and everyone knew it? The second book in a series, Cadwell Turnbull’s fantasy novel "We Are the Crisis" uncovers deep truths concerning human... Read More

In Bijal Vachharajani’s novel "Savi and the Memory Keeper", a girl navigates grief and healing via her connection with a sentient tree. After her father’s unexpected death,... Read More

With advice garnered from his luminous career in sociology and his personal experiences, Morrie Schwartz’s "The Wisdom of Morrie" is a thoughtful treatise that is filled with... Read More

Out of the cloister and into the world, a young nun with a tragic past is presented with a chance for a new beginning in Anna Quinn’s novel "Angeline". After taking vows to... Read More

Daniel H. Turtel’s "The Family Morfawitz" is an original and striking multigenerational saga centered on a power-hungry family. Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, it follows... Read More

In Amy E. Feldman’s middle grade novel "Ezra Exposed", a boy jockeys for popularity via Instagram likes and finds that the internet is a bit more complex, and dangerous, than... Read More

"California Fever" is a classic, surfer-set whodunit in which all is revealed and made well. John J. Jacobson’s funny, cozy mystery novel "California Fever" features surf... Read More

Detectives, assassins, and occasional innocents caught in circumstances beyond their comprehension dominate the mystery tales collected in "Hotel California". Murder—justified... Read More

In Jennifer Givhan’s riveting novel "River Woman, River Demon", a bruja fights to discover the truth about the woman whom her husband found murdered behind their home. Eva is... Read More

A woman faces a personal reckoning in "Half Outlaw", a touching novel about what it’s like to reject—or embrace—complicated people. An orphaned woman reckons with her... Read More

"The Nobodies" is a compulsive psychological thriller that concerns the dark, obsessive side of women’s friendships. A childhood friend’s return reawakens buried feelings in... Read More