Sumptuous descriptions of new cultural elements vivify "Shaila’s Dance", a thoughtful coming-of-age novel. A young Indian woman searches for her identity in Mohini Dasari’s perceptive novel "Shaila’s Dance", about dreams, travel,... Read More

A girl once subject to the suspicion of others finds her worst fears realized when her brother is caught in a fire in the fascinating psychological thriller "Will End in Fire". A troubled woman unravels after a house fire in Nicole... Read More

In Gina Butson’s pensive novel "The Stars Are a Million Glittering Worlds", a woman evades her grief. After her mountaineering father’s death, Thea, a New Zealander, backpacks in Guatemala, falling in with a drug-fueled community of... Read More

A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel "Becoming Felicity". A lifelong resident of Loon, Cass is devastated to learn that its library will close without... Read More

A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s graphic novel "Heaven, West Virginia". After his father’s death, Lamont arrives in the Appalachian town of Heaven to stay with his aunt,... Read More

In R.L. Maizes’s novel "A Complete Fiction", two authors are caught in a media frenzy when one accuses the other of plagiarism. As P.J. receives rejection notices for her latest novel, she reads online that another author who’s an... Read More

A young woman is molded by a charismatic friend and a new lover in the fraught coming-of-age novel "A Place for People Like Us". Hannah is determined to succeed at her prestigious business school despite her lack of money and... Read More

In the uplifting throwback novel "Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous", a refreshing heroine forges her own path in Hollywood. In Christine Stringer’s humorous novel "Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous", a director’s assistant... Read More