This unique novel builds a romance into Croatia’s history. A sweeping tale of love and setback, Blanka Raguz’s historical romance "Ballad for Emma" encapsulates major events in the early twentieth century. The story begins in Croatia... Read More

"Waiting for General MacArthur" explores an often forgotten war front, illuminating the history of one of America’s most important Pacific allies. How did the free people of Asia’s island nations experience the Second World War? In... Read More

Accessible, funny, and insightful, Haraway’s "Early Men" earns its place in a new wave of appreciation for literary short story collections. Britt Haraway’s literary short story collection, "Early Men", provides eleven different... Read More

This beautifully written and complex story follows decades of historical turmoil. "The Labyrinth of Vukovar" by Blanka Raguz is a heart-wrenching book that explores love, loss, education, dreams, and friendship during modern times of war... Read More

In "Beyond the High Blue Air", Lu Spinney confronts every mother’s worst nightmare and boldly searches the meaning of life and death. Spinney’s adult son Miles suffers a snowboard accident that leaves him in a “minimally conscious... Read More

The fourth book in the Broken Silence series, "We Are Syrians" (edited by Roger Williams University’s Adam Braver and Abby Deveuve) is a composite oral history of a half century of Assad family leadership. Formed of first-person... Read More

Baryalai “Bari” Popal fled his native Afghanistan in 1980 after the Soviet occupation and only returned after the Taliban was ousted in 2002. The result of ten years of collaboration, lawyer Kevin McLean’s Crossing the River Kabul... Read More

In 1975, British biographer Antonia Fraser caused a scandal by leaving her husband for Jewish playwright Harold Pinter, whom she did not marry until 1980. Like Joan Didion’s recent South and West, Fraser’s "Our Israeli Diary" is less... Read More