What was supposed to be a chill gig turns into a lurid exhibition from which an indie musician fears she may never recover in Lydi Conklin’s lush novel "Songs of No Provenance". To escape the reality of what she’s done, Joan drives... Read More

An empathetic leadership guide, "Thinking Outside the Boss" covers the fundamentals necessary to keep employees happy, generate productivity, and ensure organization-wide trust and engagement. Construction firm entrepreneur Oskhar... Read More

An ambitious reconstruction of a hidden personal life, "Gabriële" is Anne and Claire Berest’s biographical novel about their formidable great-grandmother. At twenty-seven, Gabriële Buffet had carved out an unusual life—studying... Read More

Jessica Zucker’s self-help book "Normalize It" demonstrates that storytelling is the way to break the cycles of silence, stigma, and shame that keep women from disclosing difficult episodes in their lives. Zucker shares composite case... Read More

In Binnie Kirshenbaum’s novel "Counting Backwards", a woman is thrust into the role of a caregiver. After Addie’s husband, Leo, is diagnosed with Lewy Body disease in his early fifties, he begins to lose touch with his former self.... Read More

In Alice Austen’s engrossing historical novel "33 Place Brugmann", World War II disrupts a close-knit group living in a Brussels apartment building. In August of 1939, the residents of 33 Place Brugmann are aware of Adolf Hitler’s... Read More

In their captivating historical novel "The Other March Sisters", Linda Epstein, Ally Malinenko, and Liz Parker shift the spotlight from the ambitious, outgoing Jo to her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy. While Jo is in New York pursuing her... Read More

The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades... Read More