Sumptuous descriptions of new cultural elements vivify "Shaila’s Dance", a thoughtful coming-of-age novel. A young Indian woman searches for her identity in Mohini Dasari’s perceptive novel "Shaila’s Dance", about dreams, travel,... Read More

Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved... Read More

Sean Gerrity’s memoir "Wild on Purpose" takes a fascinating insider’s look at an influential nonprofit organization focused on preserving and “rewilding” millions of acres of American prairie. An American Prairie founder, Gerrity... Read More

In Julie Doar’s thrilling novel "The Gallagher Place", a murder on a family’s estate reveals long-buried secrets. On a walk with her brothers, Nate and Henry, Marlowe discovers a dead body on her family’s land. The discovery is... Read More

Jerome Charyn’s bracing biographical novel is about Maria Callas’s transformation from a New York daughter of Greek immigrants to a world-famous opera soprano. When she’s a teenager, Maria’s ambitious mother brings her to Athens.... Read More

With its men off to war, a Highland community is protected by witches in Shona Kinsella’s propulsive historical novel "Daughters of Nicnevin", set during the time of the Jacobite rising. Mairead, a lonely witch, wanders Scotland alone... Read More

Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee’s true crime book delves into the Delphi murders, documenting the case from the day of the crime all the way to the conviction of the killer. When teenagers Libby and Abby went missing on local trails,... Read More

In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through... Read More