Lauren Belfer's "And After the Fire"

Lauren Belfer 's debut novel, City of Light , was a New York Times bestseller, as well as a number one Book Sense pick, a Barnes & ...

Camille Griep's "New Charity Blues"

Camille Griep lives just north of Seattle with her partner, Adam, and their dog Dutch(ess) . Born in Billings, Montana, she moved to Sout...

Anita Hughes's "Island in the Sea"

Anita Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia and had a charmed childhood that included petting koala bears, riding the waves on Bondi Bea...

Emily D. Edwards's "Bars, Blues, and Booze"

Emily D. Edwards is a professor of media studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She began her media writing career as...

William Carlsen's "Jungle of Stone"

William Carlsen was a reporter for two decades at the San Francisco Chronicle , where he was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for exp...

Tom Fox's "Dominus"

Tom Fox's storytelling emerges out of many years spent in academia, working on the history of the Christian Church. A respected authori...

Karen Halvorsen Schreck's "Broken Ground"

Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the author of the historical novel Sing For Me , which was praised in a Publishers Weekly starred review. She r...