In The Cuban Manuscript, Lilian George tracks the life of Liana, a woman who escapes one suffocating communist regime only to find herself trapped in another one just like it. She starts in a Soviet-controlled country where her family’s property is taken away from them...

In Kristen A. Peters's The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both, a mother fights for her boys because the world will not listen to them. Iris is a mother raising two autistic sons, Dylan and Jesse, in a home arranged around routine, sensory needs,...

In Nicholas Teeguarden’s The Boy from the Vines, in Paris, Ruth finds a journal written by Joseph Durand, a young man living on a French vineyard during the German occupation of 1940, and begins tracing his movements to determine whether he was a real person....

In Those Coming Back by Alanna R. Clutter, readers meet a young girl named Catherine. It’s 1869, and she and her family are about to embark on a big move, leaving Ohio and her maternal grandparents to go to Iowa to help work her paternal...

“How could I have been so obtuse, so neglectful that my dying son hated me until the end?” For Joe Fredericks, the protagonist of Wayne Feinstein's novel, Turning, it took little effort to be such a sleazeball. Joe is the definition of success in one...

In The Boy with the Butterfly Mind by Lorelei Brush, readers meet Julie, a math teacher juggling her job, marriage, and the nonstop energy of her four-year-old son, Patrick. She feels deeply proud of him, but also worried. His moods range from exuberant curiosity to...

The Time Between by Bryna Hellmann-Gillson looks at several young Jewish women and how they responded to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. Hannah, like Anne Frank, spent her early years in Germany, but her family moved to the Netherlands after the...

The Women Who Stand Between by Jeannee Sacken is a stunning novel of perseverance in the face of adversity. Top wildlife cinematographer Julia Wilde is working in Southern Africa when she finds herself in the line of fire. A tragic accident has left crew members...

The Other Shoes of Larry Martin by Pavane Ravel follows Larry Martin, a young reporter in Atlanta whose employment and housing collapse in quick succession after dismissal from his work with an extremist website. After eviction, he moves through the city and nearby towns,...

E. R. Sanchez's Tell Them Goodbye follows Sino and his cousin, Martin, two teenage boys who run from their remote ranch in Michoacán after violence makes their home unsafe. Sino’s early life is marked by control, fear, and silence, and Martin ends up as his...