This quiet novel explores the little-traversed ground of birdsong and the science of communication. Sylvia Torti’s Cages is a thought-provoking novel about the complexity of... Read More

Rulfo’s stories and sketches are absorbing and believable, classically exploring the coarse underbelly of small-town Mexico. Hard luck, cockfighting, and desperation run... Read More

Berlin Red is a true literary thriller that highlights all the intrepid strategy in espionage and the fight for survival. Berlin Red, Sam Eastland’s seventh installment of the... Read More

Violence in relationships can affect anyone, as A Careful Heart compellingly proves. A Careful Heart is a romance novel by way of domestic abuse. Sound improbable? Perhaps, but... Read More

Hart deftly describes the life of an alcoholic and the challenging but rewarding life of recovery. From journeying down the road to priesthood to dinners with the Clintons to... Read More

Angela Lin’s narration of this beautifully written novel makes this a listening experience worth savoring. Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a... Read More

With echoes of 1984 and Brave New World, Rabasa delivers a forceful, hysterical debut that’s one for the political ages. “Outside of vague moral notions and Manichean... Read More

Noiville’s novel is a sharp, taut thriller, both thought-provoking and terrifying. Florence Noiville’s A Cage in Search of a Bird is an engrossing psychological thriller... Read More

An egregious murder in a beloved church initiates a compelling whodunit in this energetic and original crime novel. How do you catch a killer in one of the world’s most... Read More

A family flees from Castro’s Cuba, in this gritty, humorous novel about a young boy’s coming of age. Raul Ramos Y Sanchez’s The Skinny Years is a complex, humorous, and... Read More

No Certain Home reveals an Agnes Smedley who, though she felt like an outcast for much of her life, became a true revolutionary for hire. “A citizen of the world,” says... Read More

Svensson pens a compelling narrative with themes of loyalty, obligation, revenge, and independence, paced as tightly and methodically as military tactical maneuvers. The first... Read More