In the multigenerational novel "Ordinary Soil", a troubled man learns anew how to respect the land he farms. In Alex Woodard’s novel "Ordinary Soil", a medical researcher and his chronically ill patient discover truths about... Read More

A vacation friendship transforms two women’s lives in the dynamic novel "Last Bets". In Mary Carroll Moore’s novel "Last Bets", art and catastrophe provide a joint purpose for a woman and a teenager escaping their troubles on a... Read More

Young members of intertwined families forge a complicated bond in the tense coming-of-age novel "All I Know". As she grows up from girlhood, a young woman comes to terms with the devastating effects of her family trauma in Holly C.... Read More

In the drama-filled novel "When All Else Fails", redemption comes from unlikely places for a group of damaged people. In Michael Pulley’s novel "When All Else Fails", a wealthy, dysfunctional family’s interests collide with those of... Read More

In the heartfelt novel "When We Push through Sound", a man rediscovers what it means to lead a life worth living. A man faces a life-altering decision in Geoff Sease’s emotive novel "When We Push through Sound". When Tristan’s... Read More

Galya Gerstman’s novel "Daughters of Jerusalem" follows three generations of Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. In 1900 in Serbia, Lili and her husband, Joseph, struggle to have a child; Lili lost seventeen babies soon... Read More

Modest generosity is used to combat multigenerational poverty and racial prejudice in the rural South in Jeffrey Blount’s novel "Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way". “No good deed goes unpunished,” thinks Jimmy, a disgraced billionaire... Read More

In Sherri Winston’s novel "Shark Teeth", an adolescent girl faces challenges when she and her younger siblings reunite after being in foster care. Twelve-year-old Kita kept her family together for years while her mother was drinking or... Read More