In Kaethe Schwehn’s numinous historical novel "The Gospel of Salome", an aging physician is asked about her connection to Jesus of Nazareth. In 38 CE, Salome, an elderly Greek woman and physician with a thriving clinic in Alexandria,... Read More

A perceptive novel built on stark contrasts, "Indelicate Deception" is about the complications of parental love. A yearning girl investigates her parents’ broken relationship in V. S. Kemanis’s emotive novel "Indelicate Deception".... Read More

An evocative historical novel that celebrates distinctive individuals in the Depression-era South. In Mark Mustian’s riveting historical novel "Boy with Wings", a man’s strange birthmark and winged appendages force him to live as... Read More

A plucky schoolteacher seeks to improve her community, earning the admiration of a fellow boarder, in the quaint romance novel Bertie’s Place. In Edie Goodwin’s optimistic Christian novel Bertie’s Place, a teacher in a rural Ohio... Read More

In Afabwaje Kurian’s novel "Before the Mango Ripens", Nigerians fight against white American missionaries for control over their country’s future. “Transition [is] afoot in Nigeria” in 1971, just after the nation’s... Read More

The island of Cyprus is centered in Alex Christofi’s eye-opening historical exposé "Cypria". Situated in the eastern corner of the Mediterranean, Cyprus is located at several crossroads: the European, Asian, and African tectonic... Read More