An admiring family memoir, "Maud and Pearl" is about how multiple generations navigated a changing American landscape. Pearl Allen Andree’s engrossing memoir "Maud and Pearl" balances family pride with personal and historical context.... Read More

The poignant short story collection "King the Wonder Dog" is infused with retrospective melancholy. In Eleanor Lerman’s compelling short story collection "King the Wonder Dog", free-spirited artists, musicians, and wanderers of the... Read More

Moira Welsh’s compelling social survey addresses the financial, emotional, and social disconnects that many women encounter during their senior years. An investigative journalist, Welsh’s acclaimed Third Act project for the Toronto... Read More

Linda Cracknell’s captivating memoir concerns her inherited personal connection to the waters of coastal Scotland and England. As an inspired Christmas present in 2015, Cracknell and her siblings gave their somewhat housebound, elderly... Read More

In Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s mesmerizing historical novel "Nightshade", a young woman is grounded and conflicted by her Romani background. In 1980s southern Ontario, Zelda and her family prepare for a season of grueling migrant labor at a... Read More

A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel "The Shipikisha Club". After shooting her husband in self-defense, Sali faces the public fervor of a trial. Her teenage daughter and two young sons... Read More

In Vigdis Hjorth’s taut, emotive novella "Repetition", a Norwegian woman recalls her troubled teenage years and early sexual experiences. While attending a University of Oslo symphony concert, the anonymous narrator observes a tense... Read More

In Keila Vall de la Ville’s incisive novel "Minerva", an aspiring Venezuelan dancer contemplates her artistic future and unusual family background. Minerva is raised in an unconventional manner: by her mother and two fathers in... Read More