A search for a stolen painting leads to an unexpected romantic connection in the absorbing novel "Pictures of My Desire". Caroline Goldberg Igra’s thrilling novel "Pictures of My Desire" explores the rarefied art world through a... Read More

Handling the tough topics of weight loss, obesity, and disordered eating with respect, "Always Hungry" is a revealing memoir. Jane McGuinness’s witty, openhearted memoir "Always Hungry" is about experiencing weight loss, motherhood,... Read More

In Susannah Fullerton’s creative biographical collection, seventeen cats are vehicles for stories of the authors who cared for them. “Since cats were first domesticated and since human beings first began to write,” the book notes,... Read More

Jaime Burnet’s delicate, striking novel "Milktooth" chronicles the horrors of abuse and the life-giving power of friendships and found family. When Sorcha meets dashing, butch Chris, she wants to create a family with her. The two dream... Read More

There have always been transgender people, shows Eli Erlick’s dynamic biographical collection "Before Gender", about thirty trans individuals of the past. This riveting, compassionate collection of life stories uses a process of... Read More

A mourning girl summers in a town that’s caught in cycles of abuse in the shocking historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic". In Patti C. Smith’s haunting historical novel "The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic", a devastating murder... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

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