In Victoria McCombs’s "The Winter Charlatan", a desperate but determined princess works to save her kingdom and break her curse. Rowan was born with a curse: that on the last day of her eighteenth year, she would prick her finger on a... Read More

"Will Computers Revolt?" is a fascinating speculative text about the potential and future of AI. Charles Simon’s "Will Computers Revolt?" is a knowledgeable primer on the future and limitations of artificial intelligence. The book... Read More

"Code Blue" is a thoughtful and satisfying young adult novel set in a world where climate change has altered much. Marissa Slaven’s bold, ambitious young adult novel "Code Blue" tackles climate change in the politically divided United... Read More

"The Long-Lost Jules" is an absorbing mystery novel centered on a lost royal descendant and contemporary money laundering schemes. A determined professor searches for a Tudor descendant in Jane Elizabeth Hughes’s complex mystery novel,... Read More

"Acts of Hope" is an ambitious, adventurous story of love and religious dedication set during the Inquisition. In Martin Elsant’s historical romance novel "Acts of Hope", the fight against the Inquisition threatens the future of... Read More

In Sally Bellerose’s novel "Fishwives", an elderly lesbian couple looks back on their lives together. Regina and Jackie have been together for sixty years. They are in mediocre health, can’t afford groceries without coupons, and are... Read More

Tobie Nathan’s historical novel "A Land Like You" is a feast for the corporeal and spiritual senses. In twentieth-century Cairo, a newborn Jewish boy and an infant Muslim girl, along with their families, are thrust into an unusual and... Read More

In Emily Adrian’s quirky, resonant novel, "Everything Here Is under Control", two women resume the intense friendship of their teen years after more than a decade of estrangement and uncertainty. After giving birth to her first child,... Read More