Daring women keep secrets, heal their neighbors, and protect each others’ futures in Bonnie Jo Campbell’s captivating novel "The Waters". On an island in a Michigan swamp sits a cabin whose residents seem to exist outside of time. As... Read More

Young people inherit their parents’ global project in "Vestige", a philosophical science fiction novel. A group of powerful young people decides how, and if, they want to help the world in "Vestige", a novel by an anonymous author.... Read More

Disagreements regarding women’s autonomy lead a midwife toward danger in the hopeful historical novel Jane’s Cure. A Canadian midwife’s controversial help with terminating pregnancies inspires D. K. Kennedy’s fascinating... Read More

Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes... Read More

Music helps a family to heal their broken bonds, moving past hurt silences, in the lovely novel "Water Music". A summer holiday on Cape Cod tests a family’s wills and loyalties in Marcia Peck’s tender novel "Water Music". In 1956,... Read More

Traumas can be escaped via acceptance in the heart-stopping novel "These Things Happen", about cycles of abuse and addiction. In Michael Eon’s novel "These Things Happen", a recovering alcoholic struggles to help his troubled older... Read More

In Alcy Leyva’s novel "the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life", sixteen-year-old Maji’s New York world is falling apart, and he sets out to sea in search of a miracle. The book is miraculous in its own right, featuring... Read More

In Teresa H. Janssen’s impressionistic historical novel "The Ways of Water", a girl comes of age in the American Southwest, facing multiple family struggles. In the early 1900s, Josie’s family lives in the New Mexico desert, where... Read More