In Nigerian culture, where polygamy is accepted and bearing children is of utmost importance,
Welcome to Beartown. It’s a friendly town where people with deep roots welcome those who have come from somewhere else, the kind of place where some who have left choose to return.
When a major event effectively puts an end to electricity in the world, society begins to collapse.
Exit West is a love story set in a not-too-distant future that is recognizable as a projection of our present unsettling times.
Four years have passed since a young couple, Hector and Lilia, illegally crossed from Mexico into the United States.
Living in the shadow of her older sister,
Love conquers fear.
The Evangelicals is a masterful review of evangelicals from the time settlers arrived in North America
Anne Lamott is back with another book with the soul-searching and transparent humor that readers have come to expect.
At the turn of the 20th century, the British targeted two Boer states in South Africa.
This memoir by well-known Japanese Canadian author Joy Kogawa takes the reader on a journey that spans a remarkable life.
Margaret Maguire is 82 years old and in failing health.
In 1952, 18-year-old Rachel returned to her childhood home in Kenya
Stranger is about the universal and fierce love that comes with motherhood.
This excellent multigenerational novel about a family of talented musicians
Ruth Huizenga, born into a Christian Reformed family, had always seen herself as a good girl
Eighty-one-year-old Mary Oliver is widely acclaimed for her wise, lyrical poetry that presents life as a spiritual pilgrimage.
Gina Ochsner’s second novel is a captivating, tragicomic story about family and community relationships in a contemporary Latvian town.
Science geeks, business people, attorneys, and historical fiction buffs—red alert!
From where I live, I can see the Ohio River from my daughter’s third-floor bedroom. Tucked below the hill overlooking the river a train track runs, but I can’t see it.
Gulwali Passarlay was born in 1994 in Afghanistan one year before the Taliban took control of his country.
In 1880, Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town. She worries that she will be the last.
When I was growing up, my dad took me to see Chariots of Fire, the Oscar-winning 1981 film about Olympic runner, Eric Liddell.