A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death... Read More

A disowned daughter returns to her Mormon home to care for her ailing mother in Karin Anderson’s novel "What Falls Away". Cassandra, the only daughter in a family of boys, was raised in a strict religious household. But she hasn’t... Read More

Based in truth, Edith Bruck’s historical novel "Lost Bread" zeroes in on the psychological and physical trauma that complicated post-war reentry for those who survived the Holocaust. Drawing on Bruck’s own experiences, this brutal... Read More

Cat loves to go on adventures, but returning to his empty jungle bungalow grows lonely. He finds a friend in Fish, but as Fish shares her own heartaches, Cat is faced with a choice between keeping his friend and making her happy. An... 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

Forthright and sweet, this picture book depicts an enjoyable, loving visit with family. In Kay Jones’s boisterous picture book "The Cousins Are Coming", children anticipate a day full of lighthearted adventures. A brother and his two... Read More

Bittersweet as it accepts past pains for the sake of personal growth, "Cracks of Destruction" is a memoir about a fractured childhood. Sherrie Lancaster’s "Cracks of Destruction" is a poignant memoir about building a life after a... Read More

In Artem Mozgovoy’s heartbreaking historical novel "Spring in Siberia", a gay man comes of age in a post-Soviet land. In the same year that Mikhail Gorbachev launches the Perestroika and sets the Soviet Union on the path toward its own... Read More