An evocative historical novel, "The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer" vivifies the memories of a group of Catholic school alumni. Suffused with remembrances and yearnings, Richard Donze’s poignant and wry historical novel "The Secret Saint... Read More

"Then Came the Summer Snow" is an encouraging historical novel about a determined mother who takes on a weapons company for its cancer-causing contaminants, which plague her uninformed community. A 1950s homemaker leads the fight to... Read More

A tale of family discord set in the context of centuries of Serbian upheavals, Gail Sidonie Šobat’s magic-infused feminist novel "Songs From This and That Country" is wrenching yet hopeful. In the fourteenth century, Sudbina, the... Read More

A soldier navigates racism in the US military in the revealing historical novel "Mud Men". During World War II, an immigrant soldier in the US Army gets a lesson in leadership and racism in J. A. Nunn’s historical novel "Mud Men". In... Read More

A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More

In the vivid historical novel "Dancing on the Brink of the World", a man comes into his own in a place teeming with frontier potential and multicultural influences. In Marianne T. Rafter’s intriguing historical novel "Dancing on the... Read More

A Vestal virgin defends her honor to save her life in Victoria Alvear’s "The Cleansing", a riveting novel set in an ancient Rome. At a time when the “truth no longer matters” and misogyny, violence, and superstition reign,... Read More

A sheltered, orphaned heiress begins to question the secrets in her estate’s basement in Isabelle Schuler’s riveting mystery novel "The House of Barbary". Bern’s citizens marked Beatrice as strange in her childhood. Cut out of her... Read More