FROM NAZI GERMANY TO BLITZ-TORN LONDON, a mother and daughter fight for love, safety, and family in this emotional work of WW2 historical fiction about quiet heroism and resilience. After years in a loveless marriage, recently widowed Clara finds comfort in music and memory. As life for Jewish families in Nazi Germany becomes more perilous, […]
2025 GILDA FINALIST No one has ever said they wanted to be a dogcatcher when they grew up. But I knew. I didn’t know the word, but I caught my first dog when I was six years old. Before I could even whistle “here boy,” I fell in love with every animal I saw, wild […]
2025 Sarton Finalist: Memoir A powerful, lyrical collection of essays from an award-winning author, exploring the pivotal moments in her life, and how art and nature have shaped her. Like both memory and the moon, what’s written here aims to shed what light it can, bringing it home to now. How does a woman compose […]
2025 Sarton Finalist: Memoir A raw, poignant collection of essays about cultivating authenticity in this age of great pretend. When she was young, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. In her twenties, determined to manifest her long-time dream of owning a farm, she worked alongside a cattleman whose perspectives on life and death […]
2025 Sarton Finalist: Memoir Living mindfully with nature during a time of uncertainty In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by […]
2025 Sarton Finalist: Memoir For readers in search of emotional and spiritual healing, a courageous, gripping memoir of one woman’s journey of gradually healing her traumatized memory through poetry, swimming, and the intuited guidance of a spiritual presence named Voice. Words Make a Way through Fire is an intimate, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by […]
