Immersed in her grief, a woman becomes unable to handle the complexities of worlds beyond her own in Sara Goudarzi’s affecting novel "The Almond in the Apricot". When her best friend Spencer was alive, Emma’s world made sense. She... Read More

After a long retirement and longer life, Sherlock Holmes is dead. Watson inherits his private papers, and a posthumous sorting yields an unexpected treasure: an unpublished manuscript detailing a case in France. Watson, who did not... Read More

In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass... Read More

In this modern fairy tale, a girl whose father seems lost at sea takes comfort from his story of a magical goose that shelters his ship during storms, ensuring his safe passage. When a goose turns up on shore, injured and wrapped in... Read More

Dale Maharidge explores personal strife, land ownership, and American history in his mystery novel "Burn Coast". A writer and reporter from New York owns land on the California coast; his neighbors there are Likowski and Eddie. When... Read More

In Jenny Jaeckel’s coming-of-age novel "Eighteen" a free-spirited young woman heads for college and falls in love for the first time. Talia grew up all over, moving from commune to commune with her unconventional parents. In 1990, she... Read More

Chantal James’s novel "None but the Righteous" follows a man’s lifelong search of truth and meaning. When he’s a teenager, Ham, a foster child who was taken in by sophisticated Pearl and her son, Wally, meets a traveler, Mayfly. Of... Read More

Tender, empathetic, and unflappably hopeful, this is the retold story of Scheherazade. In this version, set in contemporary times: Shahrzad’s curiosity is insatiable. She loves forming what she sees into enchanting tales. When she... Read More