"Dinner at 10:32" is a literary novel about inner turmoil, tender mercies, and all-too-human wavering. Set in San Francisco during the 1960s and early 1980s, Mahyar A. Amouzegar’s ruminative novel "Dinner at 10:32" is about tangled... Read More

A nineteenth-century entomologist is caught between social expectations and desire in Kimberly Duffy’s "A Mosaic of Wings", a novel about wanderlust and women’s empowerment. In Ithaca, Nora is her class’s valedictorian. She longs... Read More

In Lynn Austin’s tantalizing domestic drama, If I Were You, desperation and forgiveness are part of a classic upstairs/downstairs plot. In 1930s England, Eve was Audrey’s scullery maid and coveted her privilege. Audrey admired Eve... Read More

In The Anarchists’ Club, Alex Reeve brings back his large-hearted Victorian sleuth, Leo Stanhope, a transgender man who’s swept into a loury London murder case. When a stranger’s body is found at the Social and Democratic... Read More

With its insightful portraits of friendships in flux, "All the Right Mistakes" is an optimistic novel about work-life balance—and how it sometimes unravels. In Laura Jamison’s affecting novel, "All the Right Mistakes", a group of... Read More

"Arnold Falls" is a cozy small-town novel populated by eccentric characters. Charlie Suisman’s lighthearted novel "Arnold Falls" focuses on a New York village’s mayoral race. Named for Benedict Arnold, sister city to Romania’s... Read More

Pete Trewin’s British crime novel "Pool of Life" dives below people’s influential veneers to expose the truth of their sins. PI Jack Gordon’s business is on the downturn when two cases promise an uptick: Sarah, an aristocrat from... Read More

This quirky travel memoir uncovers the lesser-known facets of Paris with verve. Scott Dominic Carpenter takes the role of a bemused American on sabbatical in his humorous memoir, French Like Moi. Using social norms, language, and a tiny... Read More