A Wooden Heart in Plotlands by Dawn Knox is a historical novel that follows the intertwined lives of Miriam and Rebekah, two Jewish sisters, as they navigate the challenges of survival during World War II. The story begins in Nazi Germany, where the sisters face...

Snakeroot & Cohosh by Cathy Schieffelin begins when Eva Hoskins leaves her husband, Luther, after years of escalating violence in mid-century Kentucky, disappearing into the hills near Creech. In Helton, she assumes a new identity and gets government work guiding researchers through Appalachian forests, drawing...

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...

It’s August 2017, and Gabriel, a successful book editor living in Chicago, is on his way to Bogota, Colombia. He’s just suffered a personal loss and needs to get away. His decision to spend some time with his ex-boyfriend Diego proves to be a mistake:...

At fifty-two, Calder Brandt, a veteran industrial consultant at Scientific Management (SM) Consulting, was struggling with a lot. He could no longer dismiss the deteriorating condition of his neck, which was a result of his battle with stage four throat cancer over a decade earlier....

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...

Slipper Girl by Adele Royce is about Skylar Van Ness, a 27-year-old woman who discovers that her dark past has returned to torment her. Right before her father's wedding, Skylar reads a shocking email, and she learns that her mother knows everything about her and...

In the book In Jake's Shoes by Andrew C. Phillips, when Jake Gatlin is killed while serving overseas, his family gathers at their home in Oakton, North Carolina, as winter rain falls and Christmas approaches. During the hours following the funeral, his father, Marshall, slips...

Ideas People by Ward Lehmann is a campus novel set in the busy, often quirky ecosystem of an academic research library. The story follows Sidney Feldspar, an electronic resources librarian at Hill City University, as he navigates the daily pressures of budgets, journal subscriptions, and...

You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel by Douglas Robinson is a reimagining of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that moves between stage script, campus novel, and literary commentary. The book begins with a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, presented as a college production that immediately foregrounds...