A first-generation Mexican-American college student is altered by love in Andrés N. Ordorica’s elegiac romance novel "How We Named the Stars". Daniel’s freshman year at an elite Ithaca university was marked by tumult—including the... Read More

A Beverly Hills event planner navigates her grief in Tay Marley’s romance novel "Meant for Me", about an impromptu trip that sparks healing. Addie was raised by her half-sister Margo; rending flashbacks reveal both Margo’s... Read More

Love blooms between a renegade Christian and a jailer’s daughter, but is threatened by controversies, in Jamie Ogle’s invigorating romance novel "Of Love and Treason". In third-century Rome, Iris was blinded in an accident. She longs... 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

A girl born into matriarchal magical power tries to forge her own way in the shimmering coming-of-age novel "Walk the Web Lightly". In Mary Pascual’s inventive fantasy novel "Walk the Web Lightly", a talented girl is torn between her... Read More

An earnest but misguided college freshman falls in and out of like with a variety of women in the musing romance novel "Getting to Yes". In Tim Hunniecutt’s winding romance novel "Getting to Yes", a college man is eager to find lasting... Read More

A mournful daughter navigates generational gaps as she investigates her family’s past in the sympathetic novel Klara’s Truth. In Susan Weissbach Friedman’s evocative novel Klara’s Truth, an American anthropology and archaeology... Read More

A chapter book about a boy coming out of his shell in a new town, "The Crafter" is a fun tribute to gaming. Popular roleplayer and sandbox console games are invoked in Dan Sugralinov’s fantasy novel "The Crafter", in which a lonely... Read More