In The Rabbi’s Suitcase, Robert Kehlmann vividly combines family history with historical facts in a cohesive and emotionally resonant narrative that anchors history in personal experience. Beginning with the family’s migration from Eastern Europe to Jerusalem in the 1880s, he depicts their struggle to preserve...

David Loux’s historical novel, The Lost Seigneur, is a gritty, gripping, and engrossing saga of the Laux family set in early 18th-century colonial America and France. This is a sequel to the first novel, Chateaux Laux, in the Chateau Laux Odyssey. I was able to...

The Olive Grove by Deborah Rohan is a sweeping historical novel that tells the story of one Palestinian family’s journey through love, loss, and displacement across the twentieth century. Hamzi Moghrabi is a young boy growing up in the coastal city of Akka in 1913,...

Your Tomorrow Was Today by Oyindamola Dosunmu is an emotionally charged novel that navigates the intersections of grief, womanhood, and personal reinvention in contemporary Nigeria. We're with Karen, who is estranged from her family and fiercely independent. She's suddenly forced to confront her past when...

Tortue Du Soleil by S.E. Filomeo is set on the breathtaking French Polynesian island of Rangiroa, a place steeped in love, romance, and passion, where every sunset carries the promise of timeless desire. For Maia, her job at the Hotel Tortue Du Soleil is just...

Paintings of Amelia by Darius Omar tells the story of Lila and Ali, a young, newlywed Persian couple undergoing unexpected challenges that impact their faith and moral code. Their tale unfolds in Chabahar, Iran, where cultural norms and arranged marriages often conflict with individual freedoms....

Until the Walls Come Down by Gal Podjarny is a deeply layered literary novel set in modern-day Israel, where grief, identity, and history collide. After losing her parents in a terrorist attack, Tammar is thrown into another crisis when she learns her childhood home is...

In When the Tamarind Tree Blooms, Elaine Russell introduces us to Geneviève Dubois, or Viv, as she likes to be called, at a pivotal moment: her departure from the orphanage she has called home for fourteen years. Disillusioned and angry over a broken promise about...

Scarlet Ibis James brings readers an enthralling coming-of-age tale in Scarlet Birthright: What They Left Behind. The story begins in Port of Spain in 1969. Joromi Enoch is a free-spirited nineteen-year-old DJ, eager to make the most of his life. But when a summer fling...

Talking White Owl by Valerie Hagenbush is an expansive and powerful literary novel. Viktor Talking White Owl is a young Lakota man growing up near South Dakota’s Black Hills. Initially unaware of the deep and transformative history that surrounds him, Viktor comes of age under...