In Hans Brunner’s Forever Day, Felix Joseph–Maria Fuchs leaves his family’s Swiss hotel and boards a liner bound for Australia, expecting a season abroad yet encountering a decision that will not release him. On the voyage, he meets Janine, a schoolteacher returning to Victoria, and...

Richard Robbins’ First Lady of the New World is about Felicite St. Maxent, a young woman trying to make her way in colonial New Orleans. After her husband dies young, she has to manage her life while politics and society around her are constantly evolving....

Is there any hope for a woman who thinks she is oatmeal in human form? Sam might not think so, but Em and Tali, the woman she was not-so-secretly crushing on, think so, and they are determined to help her see the best version of...

Daniel Oakman’s Fire in the Head is an immersive novel that explores memory, trauma, and the blurred boundaries between past and present. Narrated by James, a data analyst and amateur cyclist, the story begins with a seemingly unrelated act of arson and then winds back...

Michael, Daniel Mendoza's younger brother, has died, and most of his family members are heading to California for the funeral. Some have been estranged for years and aren’t looking forward to the pilgrimage. In each chapter, we meet a different person. Lucia, Michael, and Daniel’s...

Inspired by real-life events, Flaco the Owl Spreads His Wings is a heartfelt drama by Jacqueline Simon Gunn. Since he was a two-month owlet taken from his native land, Flaco, an Eurasian eagle owl, had lived thirteen years in a small enclosure in the Central...

Michael Allan Scott's Facing North, Headed South: Introducing Sonja and Lance Underphal explores life’s unpredictability, a character-driven narrative about two people struggling to leave adolescence behind. This recent historical novel examines the early days of two central characters—Sonja and Lance—curated meticulously with inspirations from actual...

In Frozen Girl of Spirit Lake by Meg Lelvis, the small-town community of Eklund is struck when Barbara Gruen, a college student, is found frozen to death on the shores of Spirit Lake. The assumption is that she succumbed to a snowstorm while walking home...

Thoughts come and thoughts go; sometimes they flit through the mind and leave nothing behind but a whisper of ideas or, worse, the frustrating randomness of a void slate. Life is like that: random, fleeting, and even at times flighty. As Hermione Lee shares in...

Finding Sarah: A Phoenix to Behold by Nina Purtee is a gripping young adult coming-of-age novel. It follows Sarah Wilkinson as she rises from the ashes as a phoenix and discovers what she has to live for and offer to the world. At ten years...