Michele Weldon’s diverting essays concern womanhood and are written from the vantage of her sixties. From childhood forward, Weldon discusses her career, friendships, and feelings of invisibility. A cancer survivor, she threads regrets... Read More

In Sarah M. Eden’s graceful historical romance "Forget Me Not", a marriage is arranged between once-friends who grew apart. Julia always looked up to her neighbor, Lucas, as a beloved older brother. But Lucas left for an adventurous... Read More

In Julian Winters’s perceptive young adult novel, "The Summer of Everything", a gay teenager is afraid of loving his best friend. In Santa Monica, Wes is an insecure, comic book-loving geek. He lives above an independent bookstore, and... Read More

In Nancy Boyarsky’s chilling London mystery, The Entitled, American PI Nicole Graves must clear a teenage murder suspect. Nicole is tasked with bringing home Abigail, an entitled beauty whose view of her wealthy, adoptive parents... Read More

Next to dazzling, bohemian Scarlet, self-effacing Mel seems circumspect. In the episodic vignettes of Joan Frank’s painstaking character study, "The Outlook for Earthlings", the two friends’ lives are traced across decades with... Read More

Inspired by the social work and remarkable courage of Madeleine Lévy, the granddaughter of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Gloria Goldreich’s haunting historical novel "The Paris Children" is centered in the French resistance. The Dreyfus... Read More

Complemented by a light romance, Lily Charles’s cozy mystery "Murder at the Estate Sale" is set in the rare book world and uncovers rivalry in Atlanta’s occult circle. From reminiscing about the Bodleian to noting tanned pages and... Read More

With its clear portrayal of inner conflict, "The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives" is a provocative, multicolored historical novel that examines hidden faith. Tim Darcy Ellis’s intricate biographical novel, "The Secret Diaries of Juan... Read More