Women storytellers and communal bases of women’s knowledge undergird a woman’s year of self-discovery in New York in the intimate novel "Daughter of a Promise". In Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s coming-of-age novel "Daughter of a... Read More

Raw, vulnerable, and introspective, the memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers a woman’s transformative relationships with two dogs. Anne Abel’s loving memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers her care for an aggressive dog, which... Read More

A mournful daughter navigates generational gaps as she investigates her family’s past in the sympathetic novel Klara’s Truth. In Susan Weissbach Friedman’s evocative novel Klara’s Truth, an American anthropology and archaeology... Read More

In Teresa H. Janssen’s impressionistic historical novel "The Ways of Water", a girl comes of age in the American Southwest, facing multiple family struggles. In the early 1900s, Josie’s family lives in the New Mexico desert, where... Read More

Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a... Read More

In the emotive, empathetic memoir "We Used to Dance", a family has to let go of one of its beloved members. Debbie Chein Morris’s loving memoir We Used To Dance is about the emotional and relational difficulties of caring for a... Read More

A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became... Read More

The historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens" covers the last days of Joan of Arc’s campaign with spirited flourishes. In Anne Echols’s rousing historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens", a girl escapes an arranged marriage by joining... Read More