Tense and descriptive, Eva Jurczyk’s mystery novel "6:40 to Montreal" throws strangers together on a halted train to locate an elusive murderer. Agatha is a novelist who is struggling to write her next book. As a gift, her partner... Read More

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

Imaginative illustrations evoke the gamut of human emotions in this picture book about understanding and expressing feelings. Apt nature metaphors make the complex topic of emotions more digestible; children can borrow the language... Read More

Jerome Charyn’s bracing biographical novel is about Maria Callas’s transformation from a New York daughter of Greek immigrants to a world-famous opera soprano. When she’s a teenager, Maria’s ambitious mother brings her to Athens.... Read More

In Austyn Wohlers’s emotive novel "Hothouse Bloom", a woman steps away from human interactions to draw closer to nature, seeking healing. Anna, a painter, inherits her grandfather’s orchard. Although it is a foreign space to her, she... Read More

A boy’s little white lie takes on a big green life of its own in this wise picture book about the snowballing consequences of dishonesty. Pepe is self-conscious about bringing the comic book he drew for show-and-tell; at the last... Read More

Well-to-do but emotionally adrift East Coasters grapple with unsatisfying marriages, generational divides, and family secrets in Jennifer Anne Moses’s short story collection You’ve Told Me Before. In one story, a seventy-year-old... Read More

Janis A. Fairbanks’s reverential family memoir recounts her Native American childhood in Minnesota, wherein love outweighed poverty. Fairbanks belongs to the Fond du Lac band of the Lake Superior Chippewa people. She grew up the fourth... Read More