In Lynn Sloan’s luminous novel "Midstream", a woman’s comfortable, enviable life is upended. In 1974, Polly is thirty-four. The US simmers in discontent. Vietnam protests and feminists who demand equal rights and pay are disturbing... Read More

Opera singer Fides Krucker’s book is both a moving artistic memoir and a radical self-help work, presenting a method of freeing one’s authentic voice to reclaim power, agency, and self-worth. A feminist call to action, the book... Read More

Lisa Moore’s novel "This Is How We Love" is an intimate and complex exploration of relationships—and of what it means to be entangled by the demands of love. Jules and her husband, Joe, are in Mexico when their phones ring,... Read More

A fortune teller issues a warning against three women with water-related names in Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, atmospheric novel "Watersong". Arai has been plagued by nightmares of drowning since childhood. A fortune teller’s dire... Read More

The horror and devastation of the Civil War are witnessed by two icons of American literature in Norman Lock’s novel "Voices in the Dead House". After the 1862 defeat of the Union Army, Washington is overwhelmed by a flood of wounded... Read More

The intrafamily biography "Challenge and Change" praises a Christian woman whose wisdom and courage saw her through massive social and historical changes. Drawing from forty journals kept over a lifetime, Allen Hern’s biography of his... Read More

"Asha and Baz Meet Mary Sherman Morgan" is an exciting middle grade novel about the US’s first woman rocket scientist; it emphasizes curiosity, teamwork, and creative thinking. In Caroline Fernandez’s engaging novel "Asha and Baz... Read More

"Easter: McEaster Valley" is an imaginative children’s story in which a grown-up’s life is transformed during a walk in the woods. In Walter R. Hoge’s philosophical early reader "Easter: McEaster Valley", a man is introduced to a... Read More