The accomplished biographical novel "Writ in Water" covers John Keats’s life with insight and understanding. James Sulzer’s elegiac novel "Writ in Water" begins as British poet John Keats dies at the age of twenty-five. Accompanied... Read More

The captivating historical novel "What Longfellow Heard" covers the nineteenth-century life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Jon Nappa’s historical novel "What Longfellow Heard" is an intriguing portrayal of poet Henry... Read More

"The Uprising" is a humane historical novel about the fight for Cuba’s freedom. In Jorge Torrente’s engrossing historical novel "The Uprising", Cuba endures a period of social and political change as passionate people take up arms to... Read More

Paula Bomer’s stark historical novel is set among the detritus left behind when the Berlin Wall fell. After World War II, Eva and her husband, Hugo, made the natural choice to live in the GDR, reasoning that communists saved him from... Read More

A heartwrenching and shocking work of historical fiction, Faysal Khartash’s "Roundabout of Death" focuses on the human cost of Syria’s civil war. Set in the coffee shops, apartments, and street corners of Aleppo and Raqqa, the... Read More

Though love often blooms in adversity, an arranged marriage, class differences, and a sudden devastating accident all act as impediments to intimacy in Rebecca Anderson’s sweet clean romance novel, "Isabelle and Alexander". Isabelle... Read More

The lives of two women become intertwined across generations in Ellen Prentiss Campbell’s historical novel "Frieda’s Song". In 1935, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, a Jewish psychoanalyst, leaves Nazi Germany for the United States, where she... Read More

The two story lines of Ames Sheldon’s historical novel "Lemons in the Garden of Love" focus on important eras for women’s rights. In 1977, Cassie, who just married traditional Martin, is living in Minnesota and searching for a... Read More