Syrian refugees fight to survive in Haya Saleh’s moving novel "Wild Poppies", about how brotherhood endures wartime. Omar is fifteen. His father was martyred in a bombing. Omar and his remaining family shelter at his aunt’s home.... Read More

In his graphic novel "Nuking Alaska", Peter Dunlap-Shohl reveals the disturbing history of nuclear weapons in his home state. Recounting near-misses and actual nuclear disasters in Alaska and elsewhere, this book weaves personal accounts... Read More

In Artem Mozgovoy’s heartbreaking historical novel "Spring in Siberia", a gay man comes of age in a post-Soviet land. In the same year that Mikhail Gorbachev launches the Perestroika and sets the Soviet Union on the path toward its own... Read More

A botanist hurries to find a murderer who uses poisonous bouquets as their calling card in Kate Khavari’s charming series mystery novel A Botanist’s Guide to Flowers and Fatality. At University College London in the early 1920s, men... Read More

In Billy O’Callaghan’s haunting historical novel "The Paper Man", decades-old wartime secrets are revealed. Rebekah died of tuberculosis when her son, Jack, was a boy; the identity of Jack’s father was never disclosed. In Ireland... Read More

In Lee Polevoi’s historical thriller "The Confessions of Gabriel Ash", a besieged ambassador shares his life story. Gabriel, the UN ambassador for Keshnev, is imprisoned in a mountaintop castle. A rotating cadre of guards bring him... Read More

In Georgina Clarke’s entrancing historical novel "The Dazzle of the Light", bold Londoners find themselves connected by crimes. In 1920, Ruby’s movie-star good looks and talent for hiding her Cockney accent make her one of the best... Read More

A girl raised by Russian immigrants in an Appalachian mining community encounters hardships and love in Mary Kay Zuravleff’s evocative historical novel "American Ending". In a western Pennsylvania coal mining town in the early 1900s,... Read More