Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s "Women and Leadership" takes a global look at women in places of power. The book examines the lives of eight prominent leaders from a variety of countries and continents, including Ellen Johnson... Read More

In Kaitlyn Greenidge’s powerful coming-of-age novel "Libertie", a freeborn Black girl’s hunger to define her own boundaries carries her across an ocean and back. The darker daughter of a light-skinned, widowed homeopath, Libertie... Read More

"Complicit" is an intense thriller whose strong women refuse to be bullied by bad men. In Amy Rivers’s thriller "Complicit", old friends are thrown together to solve the mystery of a disturbing death that reveals a long-hidden truth... Read More

The heartrending memoir "Logjam of a Beauteous Mind" is a humane account of a couple’s love for each other. Peter Simon Karp’s memoir "Logjam of a Beauteous Mind" concerns his care for his wife during her time with cancer. Karp left... Read More

In Carla Laureano’s tender fantasy novel "Oath of the Brotherhood", a young prince discovers that his musical talent is an ancient gift. The Isle of Seare follows the Old Ways, encouraging a warrior spirit. Here, the only value is in... Read More

In Mameve Medwed’s novel "Minus Me", after receiving devastating news about her health, a woman decides to leave her husband detailed directions on how to live the rest of his life without her. Annie lives in a small town in Maine,... Read More

A ship traveling from England to India becomes a microcosm of Regency society in Julie Wright’s touching proper romance novel, "A Captain for Caroline Gray". Caroline, stubborn and self-educated, can not keep her mouth shut. Her... Read More

With its thorough inquiries into world history, Tyler Stovall’s "White Freedom" shows that the highly regarded American ideals of liberty and freedom do not contradict the nation’s record of racism; in the US, “freedom” has... Read More