"Florilla" is a splendid, intelligent nineteenth-century romance that threads social ideas with botany and a memorable heroine. Healing and psychic powers drive a young woman’s destiny in Perdita Buchan’s beautiful historical... Read More

"My Wandering Mind" is a ranging memoir that gathers bemusing experiences together with a sense of gratitude. Barbara Ellis’s breezy memoir "My Wandering Mind" compiles travel stories and fond experiences. Born in Budapest and bit by... Read More

Send Her Back is an arresting short story collection in which African women ably navigate complicated personal and social terrains. The insightful short stories collected in Munashe Kaseke’s Send Her Back concentrate on Zimbabwean... Read More

In the allegorical novella "A Leaf for Bongani", a young giraffe and his traveling herd work to sustain their hope, even as they meet with obstacles. The migration of a Congolese giraffe herd inspires a motivational allegory in Claire... Read More

In the winsome fantasy novel "Moriah Jones", a girl caught between two different realms discovers more about her powers and her place in the world. In Hanial Kashim’s entertaining Arthurian fantasy novel "Moriah Jones", a resourceful,... Read More

"Dear Dana" is an inspirational memoir about caring for friends near and far by reviving a lost art. Tongue-in-cheek affection for social media informs "Dear Dana", Amy Weinland Daughters’s memoir about reconnecting with former summer... Read More

In Fredrick Soukup’s foreboding novel "Blood Up North", a hard-scrabbling Minnesota family confronts the backlash of criminality. Nineteen-year-old Cass’s brother, Jack, hides stolen drug money on their grandmother Tilly’s... Read More

A widow returns to her husband’s Nantucket cottage in hopes of restarting her life in "What Matters Most", Courtney Walsh’s wholesome, piercing romance novel about atonement and restored faith. After five years of grieving, Emma is... Read More