"What Remains Is Hope" is an affecting historical novel about a Jewish family’s experiences of World War II. In Bonnie Suchman’s poignant historical novel "What Remains Is Hope", a Jewish family is shattered and reshaped by the rise... Read More

Cary Gitter’s "Cammy Sitting Shiva" is a poignant, often humorous novel about learning through loss. Cammy is trying to figure out her life. Her playwriting class is the last in a string of courses intended to further her stymied... Read More

Siblings reunite for a weekend in Linda Dahl’s "Tiny Vices", a wise novel about navigating midlife in which tense relationships and a woman’s self-protectiveness collide. On a spring break trip to Rincón Bay, Mexico, Kathy... Read More

Complemented by charming illustrations, "Smalltown City and the Spirit of City Hall" is Nancy Pearson’s illuminating chapter book about an edifying field trip that continues through a terrifying storm. Though they don’t know it when... Read More

A mother works to improve her government and her family in the revealing novel "Owls, Doughnuts, and Democracy". A woman with political ambitions teams up with a knowledgeable octogenarian to effect change in Jason A. N. Taylor’s... Read More

On the path to wisdom, traumas turn into hope in the thought-provoking domestic novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair". In Meg Myers Morgan’s visceral novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair", a woman’s... Read More

Love is a potent force in the surprising novel "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", in which unearthed secrets lead to new beginnings. A woman explores her family background in "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", MaryAnn Clarke’s engaging novel about... Read More

Following a sisters’ search to understand their mother’s death, "When People Leave" is a stirring novel. In Leslie A. Rasmussen’s domestic novel "When People Leave", family members learn valuable lessons about their relationships.... Read More