Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

Broken dreams and family bonds are at the center of Gert Loschütz’s novel "A Fine Couple". After World War II, Georg and Herta ended up in East Germany. Herta had been looking for a way to escape the confines of her hometown; she... Read More

Love, loss, and sacrifice are at the center of Michael X. Wang’s historical novel "Lost in the Long March". The moment orphaned Ping sees Yong, he knows she is the one. Ping is a gunsmith who joined the Chinese Red Army to make a... Read More

Heather Camlot’s "The Prisoner and the Writer" tells the story of the Dreyfus Affair for early readers. In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason against France. He was sentenced to prison on remote Devil’s Island, where he... Read More

David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan’s "We’ll Fight It Out Here" covers the historical fight for equal access to health care. In the 1890s, Fredrick Hoffman, the leading statistician of the Progressive Era, wanted to find out why... Read More

In "Same Ground", Russell Wangersky searches for family and belonging along the trail of the California gold rush. In 1849, William Castle Dodge gave up training to become a lawyer to travel to California and join the gold rush.... Read More

Memory and traumas interfere with romantic love in Martha Anne Toll’s historical novel "Three Muses". John, an American psychoanalyst, is in Paris when he is handed a ticket to see a performance of Boris Yanakov’s masterpiece "Three... Read More

Teresa Lim’s memoir "The Interpreter’s Daughter" reveals hidden family secrets amid accounts of love, loss, migration, and memory. In 1935, Law traveled from his adopted home in Singapore to his native village in Canton to die.... Read More