In Radu Cornel Guiaşu’s historical novel "The Faraway Mountains", men discuss life under their harsh authoritarian government over the course of a perilous hike. Gabriel disappeared weeks ago, prompting Victor, Alex, and Dan to gear... Read More

In Robert Archambeau’s inventive novel "Alice B. Toklas Is Missing", a bizarre kidnapping mystifies the artistic circles of 1920s Paris. Ida Caine is an aspiring American painter living in Paris with her husband, Teddy. Though Teddy... Read More

"Red Harvest" is a gripping historical graphic novel covering the oppression and starvation of Ukrainian farmers under Soviet rule. Framed by the memories of Mykola, a Ukrainian immigrant to Canada, the book recounts Josef Stalin’s... Read More

Grieving lovers navigate mental illness and political upheaval in Rahad Abir’s novel "Bengal Hound". East Pakistan in the late 1960s is an impoverished place marked by unrest, but life continues on, for better and for worse. Mere days... Read More

A Korean family learns to live with their difficult history in E. J. Koh’s novel "The Liberators". Insuk and her newborn son, Henry, left Korea in the early 1980s to join her husband in California. But Korea will never leave them... Read More

Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur... Read More

In the historical novel "Invisible No More", an ambitious journalist discovers the truth about a forgotten sports hero. In Scott Pitoniak and Rick Burton’s optimistic historical novel "Invisible No More", a promising journalist... Read More

Part of a series that draws on real historical events, "Flowers of Evil" is an engaging mystery novel. In N. L. Holmes’s historical novel "Flowers of Evil", a budding Egyptian physician takes it upon herself to solve a gruesome murder.... Read More