In Inês F. Oliveira’s touching coming-of-age novel "Calvin and the Sugar Apples", a girl struggles with changes in her life. Ten-year-old Amelia is having a rough time. Plagued by self-doubt, she’s at odds with her best friend,... Read More

"The Panacea Project" is an enthralling medical thriller that lays bare the battle between greed and sacrifice in the struggle to eradicate cancer. Catherine Devore Johnson’s medical thriller "The Panacea Project" depicts what a cure... Read More

"Drawn in Ash" is an exciting science fiction and fantasy tale whose heroine’s struggles reflect the eternal importance of cultural respect and tolerance. A blend of science fiction and fantasy, John W. Otte’s novel "Drawn in Ash"... Read More

A savvy heiress solves two crimes at a Manhattan hotel in S. K. Golden’s satisfying cozy mystery novel The Socialite’s Guide to Murder. In 1958, Evelyn, pampered and in her twenties, lives in the luxurious Pinnacle Hotel, which is... Read More

In Nicole Bea’s fantasy novel "Beneath the Starlit Sea", a captive sorceress is called upon to fight monsters, even as the king she serves treats her like one. Illyse lives a quiet life in a cottage until guards from King Whys kidnap... Read More

In the dystopian young adult novel "Drained", a resistance group works to overthrow a burgeoning dictatorship. In Marc Daniel Acriche’s apocalyptic novel "Drained", a high school senior gambles her life to free New York from the grips... Read More

A cache of handwritten recipes tucked in an antiquarian cookbook inspired this lively account of Arezzo’s history and culture. From the Etruscans to the present day, Elizabeth Romer captures the Tuscan city’s culinary traditions of... Read More

Odysseus: On the River of Time is a substantial and rewarding tale about ancient Greece’s best known hero. Carl Hare’s Odysseus: On the River of Time is a gripping, epic sequel to The Iliad and The Odyssey. Odysseus, elsewhere... Read More