A father emphasizes remaining true to oneself in this moving collection of letters to his college-aged daughters. A Father’s Letters to His College Daughters by William Courter gathers insights, advice, and reflections from the pivotal... Read More

This mesmerizing novel provides an incisive look at how the Bosnian War marked its survivors. In Cornflower Blue: A Case for Milena Lukin, Christian Schünemann and Jelena Volić reimagine a 2004 case of soldiers found dead inside a... Read More

Irreverent sketches in a satirized metropolis portray emotional disenchantment. Stephen C. Bird’s collection of related short stories, Any Resemblance to a Coincidence Is Accidental, presents a hyper-electric commentary on modern life,... Read More

With themes on accepting strangers and responding to others with kindness, this is an optimistic, promising tale that bridges fantasy and the everyday. An Unexpected Guest at My Birthday Party, by Alice Vanderpool, introduces Max, a... Read More

Despite the bleak context and occasional brutality, there’s seldom a sense that the people have been spiritually defeated in this high-stakes WWII novel. "Harvest of War" by Jan Smolders portrays a World War II community where... Read More

Period details come to life through grand-scale revolution as well as domestic minutia in this captivating story of Germany between the wars. Ernst Werner Techow, a member of Germany’s underground Organization Consul, was the driver of... Read More

One Flew Over the Banyan Tree is rich with meticulous detail and digression, and the payoff for the many escapades is worth the wait. Jellicoe Junction–an area in Portopo, the capital city of Victoria, a fictional former British... Read More

"Two Tales of the Moon" is a thoughtful portrait of a modern woman who must choose between the burden of memory and a future of her own making. In "Two Tales of the Moon", forty-seven-year-old Li Lu confronts the damage China’s... Read More