Under Two Flags by Janis Robinson Daly is a historical novel set during World War I, inspired by the real experiences of Josephine Therese Marzynski, a young American woman drawn to music and possibility. In 1916, Josephine leaves Boston for Berlin to study opera at...

Amber Phil arrives at Eryden University to study medicine in Selecting The Wrong Love by E. Masson and Julie G. Henry. Soon after, she meets James McGill, a supremely nice business student who becomes a close friend and a part of her everyday routine. As...

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...

Mariya is the first book in the Empty Mankind series by Milha Vek. Mariya grows up feeling abandoned by her father after he leaves the family for another man. This leaves Mariya with a hollow and empty ache in her chest. The Russians called this...

J. Timothy Damiani’s The Dementia Diaries examines the complexities of love and loss through the eyes of a psychiatrist grappling with early-onset dementia. The story follows Dr. Will Newman as he moves from a prestigious academic career to a role at F.R.E.S.H., a state mental...

In The Lost Ballerina by Deanna Lynn Sletten, seventeen-year-old Maddie Carlson needs to earn money fast. Her boyfriend, Caden, crashed her car, and her father insists she pay for the repairs herself. Maddie takes a job mowing and weeding the lawn at a big, mysterious...

Olivia, who has found meaning in teaching law, rather than practicing law, is happy with her situation. If only her boyfriend, Josh, could let her be, but he is driven by ambition and status and looks down on her teaching job. When he organizes...

Runika “Run” Long, a young woman born and raised in the Lower East Side of New York, knew what it felt like to exist and not be seen and heard. It was the reason she had chosen life in foster care over one with her...

Morning of a Crescent Moon by N. J. Schrock is a closely observed work of historical fiction set in Virden, Illinois, at the close of the nineteenth century, where everyday life unfolded during mounting labor unrest. The novel opens with striking imagery that establishes place...

On a Sundown Sea by Jill G. Hall is a historical novel that blends social conscience, spiritual inquiry, and a sense of place. Set in late nineteenth-century New York, the story follows Katherine Tingley, a woman driven by compassion and guided by inner visions, as...