In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

In Tides, Lies, and Alibis by Taffy Beach, take a trip back to the '90s and visit a small town in Florida. Kate MacGregor is an artist, and while her name gives her a reputation as the last heir of a Florida dynasty, it certainly...

Katrin Costa’s The Girl in the Purple Jacket is an inspired true historical story set in East Germany in 1989, where twenty-year-old Karlina lives under a government that decides where its citizens may travel and how openly they may speak. Karlina has spent years imagining...

William Ian Grubman’s Paris After the Storm is set in Paris in 1947, where Émile Rothstein serves as Director of Restorations at the Louvre as thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis await return to their owners. When a Renoir Émile repairs disappears from the...

Sometimes you have to break a few rules to figure out where you belong. In The Trolley to Renwick Park by Susan Gere Carter, seventeen-year-old Lucy Harmon lives in Ithaca, New York, in 1915, when young women are expected to marry and settle into traditional...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

Tim Schooley’s novel, The Wool Translator, is an interwoven coming-of-age story of two young savants and their forbidden romance, set in the chaos of war in Europe and England of the 1480s. The story includes fictional characters as well as reimagined historical figures with fictional...

Ratcatcher by K.J. Fieler introduces a small, fierce street child in Victorian London who's carved out a fragile independence, catching rats for shopkeepers in exchange for bread and drippings. When a baker refuses her a scrap of charity, she throws two live rats into his...

In William Amos’s The Seed of Joy, American Peace Corps volunteer Paul Harkin arrives in South Korea in 1979, where he falls in love with Han Mi Jin, an English teacher involved in the democracy movement. Their relationship comes under pressure when Mi Jin’s parents...

In Kevin Michael Flynn’s West Of Man, a twelve-year-old Irish boy arrives in America in 1908 and eventually becomes The Carpenter, a war veteran raising his son Michael in Old Town during 1929. When a secret organization operating through the city begins targeting his family,...