Winter Counts

Author: David Heska Wanbli Weiden Published: August 2020Genre: Literary fiction, thriller, mystery Virgil Wounded Horse, half-breed, mixed-blood, iyeska, a man living reluctantly in two worlds. A for-hire enforcer on South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation, Virgil struggles between his Lakota upbringing and the scars left by the tragic deaths of his mother and sister. Responsible now…

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Author: Silvia Moreno-GarciaPublished: July 2019 Genre: Historical Fantasy Winner of the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Gods of Jade and Shadow, is a spectacular combination of 1920s Mexico and the Mayan mythological text, Popol Vuh. The fourth novel from author, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow introduces us…

Rosewater

Author: Tade ThompsonRelease Date: November 2016 (original publication) Genre: Science Fiction British author and psychiatrist, Tade Thompson’s stories and shorts have been critically acclaimed worldwide. His debut novel, Rosewater, won both the Nommo Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.K. It was also a finalist for…

The Vanishing Half: A Novel

Author: Brit BennettRelease Date: June 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, Family Saga Twin girls inseparable since birth suddenly find their lives split in two. Growing up in a small black community in Louisiana, Stella and Desiree Vignes run away at sixteen to escape the suffocating rules of their world. Neither could have predicted their sudden separation….

The Book of Longings: A Novel

Author: Sue Monk KiddRelease Date: April 2020Genre: Historical Fiction Ana, the wife of Jesus of Nazareth. While fictional, as Kidd discovered in her research, entirely plausible. There is no record of Jesus from the age of twelve until his 30th year and in 1st century Galilee, it was a man’s civic, familial, and sacred duty…

The Library of Legends

Author: Janie ChangRelease Date: April 2020Genre: Historical Fiction China 1937, when the Japanese were invading and the Communist and Nationalist parties were at odds, the students of Minghua University evacuate to the safety of the western provinces. A journey across 1,000s of miles, 19 year old Hu Lian and her classmates are entrusted with one…