In Linda Williams Jackson’s historical novel "The Lucky Ones", a boy who’s living in poverty finds strength and a way forward through education. In 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy sets out on his Southern Poverty Tour, seeking to reveal... Read More

Based in truth, the powerful novel "No Stopping Us Now" is about the fight for gender equality in sports just after the passage of Title IX. In 1974, all Louisa wants to do is to play basketball. But her Portland, Oregon, high school is... Read More

The Bee & The Fly is an absorbing epistolary novel in which two of the nineteenth century’s most beloved women writers exchange their concerns about writing and contemporaneous issues. Framed as an attic discovery, these winsome... Read More

In Andy Charman’s dynamic mystery novel "Crow Court", the death of a choir master in late nineteenth-century England is enigmatic. Charles is a wine merchant who rose from poverty; he and four friends set out to confront his half... Read More

Against the backdrop of Chicago’s counterculture, a teenage runaway and a widowed gynecologist form a bond in Anara Guard’s striking novel Like a Complete Unknown. Katya, the starry-eyed, artistic daughter of Polish emigrants, flees... Read More

A town of craftspeople encounters maybe-miracles in Laura Stanfill’s fantastical historical novel "Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary". Mireville, in rural France, is known for two products: its lace and its serinettes. The... Read More

"The Door-Man" is a luminous historical novel about patriarchal mistakes, women’s loves, and haunted sons. In Peter M. Wheelwright’s historical novel "The Door-Man", family legacies and the decommissioning of the Central Park... Read More

"Between Fortitude and Folly" is an informative, absorbing historical novel in which three adults who meet during wartime are endeared to one another. In K. Partridge’s historical novel "Between Fortitude and Folly", a Navy Reserve... Read More