Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a series of chapter-long vignettes. Like the Fleetwood Mac song... Read More

Set in Lake Placid, the sharp-minded thriller The Girl Who Wasn’t There plays with expectations about whom to trust. Sydney had dreams of being a doctor, and he had the smarts to make it happen. Instead, he became the bagman for one of... Read More

In her memoir "Two Trees Make a Forest", Jessica J. Lee braids together geology, language, and family history as she explores her Taiwanese roots. Lee, who has a doctorate degree in environmental history and aesthetics, is attuned to... Read More

Anna Carey’s young adult novel This is Not the Jess Show starts in a familiar fashion, with a teenager in the suburbs dealing with drama. But there are unsettling events, too: Jess hears a chorus of chants in the morning, her dog has... Read More

In Zarrar Said’s epic novel "Pureland", a servant turned physicist wrestles with science, faith, and love. Salim is born a Pureland plebeian in 1950, but a levitating ascetic prophesies future greatness for him, influencing his fate.... Read More

Three troubled but tough generations of women, all molded and wounded by the Pentecostal culture around them, are celebrated in Kelli Jo Ford’s masterpiece, patchwork novel, "Crooked Hallelujah". Religion became a source of both... Read More

Frank Mortimer’s "Bee People" is an entertaining introduction to the world of beekeeping, drawn from Mortimer’s extensive experience raising bees in suburban New Jersey. The book’s topics will appeal to novices, experts, and the... Read More

"The Words of the Wandering" strikes a perfect balance between fun and danger, school and socialization, and friendship and romance. D. E. Night’s "The Words of the Wandering", the third novel in the fantasy series The Crowns of... Read More