In Jamie Foley’s "Emberhawk", a young woman escapes into enemy territory, hoping to save her people; there, she faces the prices of pride and of faith in an unstable deity. Driven by unceasing drought and her mother’s untreatable... Read More

Cozy mysteries don’t get any cozier than Joanne Fluke’s, and her latest in the Hannah Swensen series, Coconut Layer Cake Murder, is no exception. Hannah is a baker and amateur sleuth who’s ordered to take a vacation after a... Read More

Journalist Lauren McKeon interrogates the insidious and invisible power structures that keep women down, and shows how women “disrupt and reimagine” those structures, in "No More Nice Girls", a book all about the paradoxes of... Read More

Susan May Warren’s Christian romance "The Way of the Brave" applies a razor-sharp eye to a suspenseful climb of Denali and its characters’ private wars. Orion is a former pararescue jumper who served in Afghanistan. Jenny is a... Read More

Micah Good’s "The Opposite of Falling Apart" includes a meet-cute, angst, and lots of introspection as its characters confront weighty issues. Jonas, an amputee, and Brennan, a girl with severe anxiety, are hardly a perfect match, but... Read More

Featuring more than a hundred entries spanning every continent and thousands of years, Heart of a Stranger is a varied, compelling, and expansive view of the universal experience of exile. This anthology includes recognized accounts of... Read More

"The Road to Urbino" moves between Sri Lanka, the UK, and Italy, illuminating how each locale touches and irreparably changes its cast of characters throughout their lives. Ras is in jail. His crime: the theft of The Flagellation of... Read More