British suffragettes fight for women’s equality in Brigitte Dale’s gripping historical novel "The Good Daughters". In 1912, after compromising her “virtue” in secret, Charlotte heads to Cambridge to study at England’s first... Read More

A writer searches for her vanished cousin in "The Year of the Wind", Karina Pacheco Medrano’s unforgettable novel about the personal and generational costs of political chaos. As a girl in Peru, Nina thrilled in stories of mythical... Read More

A heart is healed, and a future forged, amid the bustling gossip and drama of English society in the charming Jane Austen–inspired novel "Marianne". Set in Regency-era England, Alice McVeigh’s delectable romance novel "Marianne" is... Read More

Sara Gothelf Bloom’s sophisticated novel-in-vignettes "Just Enough to Start Over" is about an artistic German Jewish family in exile from the Nazis. There are three Dubrovsky sisters: Bertha, a talented musician; Annelene, a gifted... Read More

In Jonathan Bockian’s captivating historical novel "What Was Forbidden", a skeptic is murdered, his sister tries to bring his killer to justice, and a community is changed forever. In seventeenth-century Venice in the Jewish ghetto,... Read More

Mythical beings plot long-awaited revenge against each other in Shauna Lawless’s atmospheric fantasy novel "Daughter of the Otherworld". The mythical Tuatha Dé Danann and their descendants have waited over one hundred years for their... Read More

In Janet Richard Edwards’s luminous, mesmerizing historical novel "Canticle", a thirteenth-century saint-in-the-making has her faith fostered by a community of women. As a teenager on her family farm, Aleys lives to pray and teaches... Read More

Andrew Furman’s wondrous novel "The World That We Are" connects young Henry David Thoreau with a contemporary college professor. In 1837, twenty-year-old Thoreau resigns from his position as a schoolteacher after his superiors insist... Read More