McCabe details a true story of love, loss, and a young woman’s tragic end, all through the mysteries of her family’s past. Melanie McCabe’s His Other Life details an... Read More

Quietly masterful, the novel contains rich details of nineteenth-century Russian life. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s City Folk and Country Folk is a slyly captivating,... Read More

Warm and occasionally edgy, this self-discovery-on-the-road novel evokes meaningful memories. In Susan Jackson Rodgers’s quirky This Must Be The Place, Thea Knox has just... Read More

The Pinks reads like a historical thriller, with one fascinating plot twist: it is based wholly on truth. Chris Enss’s The Pinks offers an engrossing look at the women’s... Read More

See What I Have Done enters the murder house and, with quiet intensity, creates a memorable place of horror. Sarah Schmidt’s novel See What I Have Done revisits the notorious... Read More

What takes the collection to an exceptional level is Meyer’s devotion to and passion for Canada’s literary legacy. Bruce Meyer’s Portraits of Canadian Writers compiles... Read More

With its resourceful, resilient heroine and vibrant narrative, Bread of Angels offers an engrossing new look at a mysterious woman of faith. Tessa Afshar’s Bread of Angels... Read More

Though his path has been varied, Price has demonstrated a singular dedication to racial equality. Hugh B. Price’s This African-American Life details the author’s decades of... Read More

An alternating narrative creates a subtle yet intense and multilayered portrait of Okinawans. Shun Medoruma’s In the Woods of Memory is a powerful novel of compact complexity,... Read More

Buck’s memoir features a poetry of expression tempered by the keen eye of a gardener. When Leslie Buck turned thirty-five, she ignored society’s pressures to start focusing... Read More

What the Mouth Wants expresses with eloquent candor that while there are boundaries and behaviors to challenge, others of flesh and blood are sometimes best left alone. Through... Read More

Full of jaggedly poetic charm and twisted humor, this is a fine novel about a caper gone wrong. Les Wood’s Dark Side of the Moon is the painfully funny tale of a jewel heist... Read More