An artist and inspector are on a mission to recover a stolen painting in Rebecca Anderson’s Victorian romance novel "The Art of Love and Lies". Rosanna is a masterful forger—though she prefers calling her paintings reproductions.... Read More

In Gerda Blees’s novel "We Are Light", a woman’s quiet, bizarre death exposes the tragic gap between ethics and legality. The leader of the Sound & Love Commune, Melodie manipulates loyalty and obedience from her small group of... Read More

Albert Maltz’s novel "A Tale of One January" is about the desire for survival and human connection in the face of fear and death. Originally published in Great Britain in 1967, the novel is set in Poland in 1945. In it, six people from... Read More

Lily Meade’s captivating thriller "The Shadow Sister" is about sisterhood, race, and generational trauma. Casey and her older sister Sutton don’t get along—a challenge for Casey after Sutton goes missing. While the town rallies to... Read More

Imagination runs wild in Rachel Cantor’s historical novel "Half-Life of a Stolen Sister", an innovative spin on the lives and work of the Brontë sisters. Maria’s mother is unwell. She no longer takes care of Maria’s younger... Read More

A woman returns to her childhood haunts in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sensual, earthy novel "To the Forest". Decamping their pandemic-shuttered city, a family retreats to a blue cottage in the woods—a place bound by a stream, a... Read More

"The Rooster House", Victoria Belim’s poignant memoir, unveils the Ukrainian roots of a family mystery. Born in Ukraine, Belim moved to the United States with her family when she was fifteen. Decades later, while living in Brussels,... Read More

The fates of a girl who loves the stars, a real estate agent, an envoy for the king, and a taxidermist are plied by the goddess of love in Antoine Laurain’s scintillating, era-crossing romance novel "An Astronomer in Love". Venus does... Read More