The fantastical drama "Politicians in Purgatory" sets the Cold War’s most prominent instigators and participants into conversation with each other. Cold War-era politicians face judgment in Kirsten E. A. Borg’s fantasy novel... Read More

Winter’s Reckoning is a folksy historical novel in which a local healer cements her determination to forge a better future. In Adele Holmes’s enchanting historical novel, an Appalachian herbalist’s concern for her family and... Read More

Set in the Middle East, "The Nativity of Bloodshed" is a historical novel that reveals the senselessness of war. Moshe Levin’s historical novel "The Nativity of Bloodshed" explores Israel’s history across three centuries. In 1593, a... Read More

A revolutionary Italian artist living in a corrupt, brutal era is the focus of the historical novel "The Artist and the Assassin". In Mark Frutkin’s historical novel, an assassin is hired to kill a celebrated Italian Renaissance... Read More

In the historical novel "The Sky We Shared", two girls—one Japanese, one American––live through separate atrocities during World War II, learning about the complexity of the idea of “enemies” in the process. Nellie is almost... Read More

In Lynn Sloan’s luminous novel "Midstream", a woman’s comfortable, enviable life is upended. In 1974, Polly is thirty-four. The US simmers in discontent. Vietnam protests and feminists who demand equal rights and pay are disturbing... Read More

In Steve Sem-Sandberg’s historical novel "W.", a soldier is sentenced to death for murder during the Napoleonic Wars. Always at the wrong place at the wrong time, Johann Christian Woyzeck struggles to find his place in life. Orphaned... Read More

Heart Mountain, an internment camp in Wyoming, is brought to heartbreaking life in "Finding Moon Rabbit", J. C. Kato and JC²’s sensitive historical novel about surviving injustice with hope. Because of Executive Order 9066, Koko and... Read More