Deep inhumanity is contrasted with the boundless potential for hope in the historical novel "Diamonds in Auschwitz". Meg Hamand’s riveting historical novel "Diamonds in Auschwitz" follows a handful of Jewish people as they navigate... Read More

The stories within "Memory Plays" are about how people reconcile truth and memory through romances, grief, the creative process, and even miracles. In Stephen Evans’s distinctive short story collection "Memory Plays", four sets of... Read More

Love is the focus of Martina Devlin’s elegant historical novel "Charlotte", about Charlotte Brontë, her husband Arthur, and Arthur’s cousin Mary, who became Charlotte’s friend and, later, Arthur’s second wife. The story is set... Read More

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

In Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Sara Shepard’s thriller "Gaslight", a power-seeking cult exploits its members. Having escaped her controlled past, Rebecca lives a quiet life with her husband and two children in Nevada. This changes when... Read More

Focused on its heroine’s empowerment, "The Three Layers of a Moment" is a lush, satisfying entry into a domestic series. In Samar Reine’s novel "The Three Layers of a Moment", a woman with deep roots in New Mexico contends with her... Read More