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Joyous Lies Margaret Ann Spence

Maelle Woolley, a shy botanist, prefers plants to people. They don't suddenly disappear. Raised on her grandparents' commune after her mother's mysterious death, she follows the commune's utopian beliefs of love for all. Then she falls for attractive psychiatrist Zachary Kane. When Zachary claims her mother and his father...

Congo David Van Reybrouck

From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed...

Pearls Dot Nuechterlein

What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the country, aged middle 50s through late 90s, offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years—the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorrows, happy memories from the past plus...

Amphibious Naomi M. Wong

At a dinner party somewhere in Chile, a spunky, hypnotic human weapon steals something she can't remember from her hosts. She is the Agent, known in that part of the world by the name "Bathsheba." David Miller the Killer, Bathsheba's trainer in covert operations at the World Council of Eugenics, discovers...

Mrs. Alworth Tim Castano

Mrs. Alworth envelops the reader, like a blanket. Tim Castano does an amazing job of pulling the reader inside the characters' heads, and navigating their layers, from their appearances to their inner, vulnerable selves, to how they receive and perceive one another, and ultimately, to how they love. The central relationship is so pure...

The Violence of Reason Pete Planisek

As spring returns to Norway in 1942, Norill Haugen, a spy in the Norwegian resistance movement, barely recognizes her once quiet life. Two years of Nazi occupation, aided by the collusion of those loyal to the illegitimate government of Vidkun Quisling, a German sympathizer, has divided her country and...

How the Deer Moon Hungers Susan Wingate

For people who enjoy books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. Mackenzie Fraser witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life...

Sins Against Science Judi Nath

Misinformation has had dramatic and dangerous effects, as evidenced by numerous events of the late 2010s and early 2020s. Reading a steady stream of misinformation leads to distrust, potentially leading to conflict in one's family and workplace, and even to civil unrest. At the heart of many such matters is scientific illiteracy. Many people...

A Story of Bad Edward M. Krauss

The relationship between the police and the media has always been a strange one; adding romance creates serious complications. A Story of Bad is the tale of a cop and reporter entering into a controversial romance, where they both try to stay loyal to their employers' rules and ethics, while...

The Future of Feeling Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips

An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves. There's no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It's also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted with online discourse. Why bother...

In Sight of the Mountain Jamie McGillen

In the devastating aftermath of the 1889 Great Seattle Fire, nineteen-year-old Anna Gallagher faces considerable pressure to marry well and soon. She has two serious suitors: a well-meaning but condescending doctor, and an evasive fisherman who challenges her mind...

I Eat Men Like Air Alice Berman

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings assemble to celebrate an upcoming marriage in a debaucherous weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The lavish trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of...

Sentience Courtney P. Hunter

Robots, sex, lies, adventure, and chaos. Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself? And what truly defines humanity and consciousness? Running from a violent past, Leo Knox desperately decides to participate in a scientific experiment conducted by the infamous and greedy tech-giant, AlgorithmOS. Soon, Leo learns that...

All Four: Invasion Eddie Shannon

All Four: Invasion is set in the future. Our world is on the brink of annihilation at the hands of powerful aliens called Hero's led by a curiously evil boy. All hope for humanity lies in the abilities of four individuals sprinkled across the planet Earth with unique energy. Although their presence is revealed to Earth, they still must be found.

The Disciple's Wife Marilyn Malcolm

Sarah never meant to follow Jesus. She was following her husband. Chasing after him. Trying to save him from the cult of a false messiah. In her pursuit, she wonders why only she seems to hear this charlatan proclaim himself to be God, again and again. And in her journey, she begins to recognize the truth. Wander the deserts and valleys...

Woman of an Uncertain Age Priya Malhotra

When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband dies of a heart attack, she transforms herself from a suburban wife into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences. A far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow who dresses in subdued colors and focuses solely on her children and God. Naina moves to New...