"Restless Secrets" is a well-wrought depiction of everyday life, even if that life is a little strange. "Restless Secrets" seamlessly weaves together three novellas about the lives of very different yet all very tough and durable women.... Read More

The book’s riveting main character proves to be Haight-Ashbury itself, at its tumultuous peak. Susan Knapp’s "The House on Masonic" goes back to the summer of love to explore the hippie movement from its ground zero: the... Read More

These pages are filled with characters fighting poverty with industriousness and battling discrimination with colorblind friendships. Set amid the wide-ranging history of the American South and its traditions of bootlegging and white... Read More

"A Prophet without Honor" takes an approach to history that is both inventive and meticulous. Joseph Wurtenbaugh’s A Prophet without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History depicts a world in which the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s... Read More

A riveting page turner, "Rhode Island Rendezvous" delights and informs, offering a fresh take on the seafaring novel. Linda Collison’s "Rhode Island Rendezvous" thrills as a hard-to-put-down historical novel of nautical derring-do.... Read More

This is a significant book that resurrects a painful past and makes pertinent a little-known but crucial act of rebellion at Auschwitz. "The Trumpets of Jericho" by J. Michael Dolan is a complex historical novel that examines the revolt... Read More

Intelligent, witty, and filled with true feeling, this is a novel that celebrates women’s bonds and resilience. "Second Acts", by Teri Emory, is a smart, heartfelt glimpse at love, loss, and surprises in the lives of three longtime... Read More

This is a vivid, spirited search for the self, full of creativity and whimsy. Lively and entertaining, Elizabeth Leiknes’s "Black-Eyed Susan" provides great insight into the art of finding oneself. Susan Specter is a bundle of... Read More