Fiction

Author Helen Sedgwick about her book 'The Comet Seekers': “I knew that I wanted to write about people making different choices, and the multiple points of view allowed me to show why each of the characters make the decisions they do. It felt like the natural way to write a book about choice, and the ways in which we are both individual and connected.”

'The Other Side of Hope' by R. F. Dunham is a world mirroring our own, third-world Christians and first-world Muslims work to understand one another

Interview with Angela Pisel author of 'With Love From the Inside': "We, as a society, have executed innocent people. And that to me is not okay. In the end, this novel is about finding hope and forgiveness even in the worst of circumstances."

In her new novel 'The Regulars', Georgia Clark brilliantly combines feminism, true beauty, and a wee bit of magic.

Fredrik Backman's 'And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer': "It turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth."

One line or one paragraph can grab us. But can it make a book memorable? Try these on for size.

Gabriel Valjan's 'Corporate Citizen' is highly recommended for those who love a good mystery.

Interview with Stephanie Gangi author of 'The Next': "I went with the whole idea of a ghost as a kind of metaphor for women of a certain age, that invisibility, not to mention how marginalized you are when you’re sick. All of these things really coalesced for me in the writing of the novel, a sort of the ghost in the machine."

This novel about the biblical King David gives strong personalities to the women of the story, who in the texts are mostly merely wives, pawns, and victims. And the richness of the flowing prose matches Brooks's heightened imaginative powers.

What better way to step away from the emotional exhaustion provided by this year’s presidential elections than by pitching head first into an awesome new book.