A historical love story takes on mythic significance in the moving novel The Ballad of Midnight and McRae. A bandit and a lawman form a legendary bond in Jess Lederman’s engrossing novel The Ballad of Midnight and McRae. Caleb is a... Read More

Siblings reunite for a weekend in Linda Dahl’s "Tiny Vices", a wise novel about navigating midlife in which tense relationships and a woman’s self-protectiveness collide. On a spring break trip to Rincón Bay, Mexico, Kathy... Read More

A drowned girl and the son of a fire clan confront evil and restore harmony in Meg Medina’s adventure-filled fantasy novel "Graciela in the Abyss". Graciela, a girl from a fishing village, falls in the ocean. A century later, she... Read More

A scientist’s homecoming and river restoration work inspire her to face her childhood fears in Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s eloquent Christian novel "What the River Keeps". As dams on the Olympic Peninsula begin to close, Hildy, a solitary... Read More

In Giulia Caminito’s mesmerizing novel The Lake’s Water is Never Sweet, an Italian girl navigates private treacheries and injustices. Gaia grows up in poverty, learning to be tough in a house whose concrete courtyard is her only... Read More

A creative woman uses writing as a balm for her trauma in the encouraging novel "Gajarah". In Somia Sadiq’s rich literary novel "Gajarah", a Pakistani woman reclaims her story after violence. Emahn is inspired to write a book whose... Read More

On the path to wisdom, traumas turn into hope in the thought-provoking domestic novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair". In Meg Myers Morgan’s visceral novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair", a woman’s... Read More

An oenophile’s mystery novel, "Lies in the Cellar" features a part-time sleuth who benefits from the help of her friends. A Sonoma winery, murder, and the search for a historical treasure combine in Parker French’s fun mystery novel... Read More