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.
is a masterful review of evangelicals from the time settlers arrived in North America
Anne Lamott is back with that readers have come to expect.
At the turn of the 20th century, the British targeted two Boer states in South Africa.
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
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.