Sherry Thomas: The Lady Sherlock Series < Back Sherry Thomas Author of The Lady Sherlock Series March 4, 2021 I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Sherry Thomas’s Lady Sherlock Series. Thomas has published romance, fantasy and YA books, none of which interest me, but then I started reading about the antics of ‘Charlotte Holmes.’ Charlotte and her friend Mrs. Watson have apparently invented an imaginary brother named Sherlock so that she can use her brilliant powers of deduction to earn money in a Victorian society that doesn’t trust the opinions of women. The writing is descriptive, the conversations witty, the crimes interesting and the atmosphere compelling. Thomas’s has received lots of honors and is a bestselling author. She immigrated from China at age 13. She is also a two-time winner of Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® Award. I hope she continues writing this charming series. Previous Next

Didn’t I tell you I was going to be at my Aunt Ivy’s for a barbeque dinner at which I ate purely protein ... < Back Best Chocolate Cake/Muffins GF. V. September 10, 2019 Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 30-40 Minutes Serves: 12 Slices of Cake Tags: Muffins and Breads, Baking, Vegan, Gluten Free, Cakes & Pies & Icing About the Recipe p.184 Battered: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery He handed Alene one of his little blue towels and she looked at him closely. Both Dennis and Gary had trained with him. He was strong enough to murder someone with his bare hands. “Where were you last night, by the way?” He smiled. “I thought we’d resolved this, Alene. Are you asking because of your prodigious investigative skills, or has someone hired you as a private eye? Does this mean you suspect me – again?” He rolled his head, as if in agony, and then pointed to the calendar above his desk near the door. “My mother’s birthday is celebrated every year on that very date, the twenty-second of June. Didn’t I tell you I was going to be at my Aunt Ivy’s for a barbeque dinner at which I ate purely protein with no extraneous carbohydrates and merely a sniff of the watermelon and the chocolate cake?” Alene realized she’d been holding herself tightly. She plopped down on the mat and smiled up at Michael. “Sorry.” “But thanks for your thoroughness in checking up on me, Sherlock,” he added. Ingredients 1 15.5 ounce can of chickpeas, drained 4 eggs 1 tsp pure vanilla extract ½ tsp chocolate extract (optional, but worthwhile) 3/4 cup sugar ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp cinnamon (up to 1 tsp if you love cinnamon) 1 TBSP instant decaf coffee or espresso 1 1/3 cups or 9 oz bag of semisweet chocolate chips Preparation Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a 9-inch round cake pan or a muffin tray Process beans, eggs, and extracts until smooth. Process in sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and coffee powder Pour in chocolate chips and process about 30 seconds. Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes in the preheated oven (15-18 for muffins), or until a knife inserted into the center of cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan before inverting onto a serving plate. Dust with confectioners’ sugar, or whip up a rich chocolate frosting Previous Next

She blended a white gazpacho and served it with homemade rolls for lunch, then let the kids lie in her bed watching... < Back Alene’s White Gazpacho July 17, 2019 Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 10 Minutes Serves: Makes about 4 large, 6 small servings Tags: Soup, Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Entrees, Vegan About the Recipe p.46 Battered: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery Once when Kacey was still a kid and Alene was babysitting during one of her weekend visits, Kacey mentioned in that offhand way teenagers have that Gary and Joan had separate bedrooms. She was trying to explain why there was so much laundry and probably didn’t realize what she was telling Alene. Poor Gary — Joan was his third wife, but apparently third was not the charm. After all, she’d had an affair with the husband of at least one neighbor. Instead of responding to Alene’s text, Kacey appeared in the kitchen moments later and said, “I can’t spend that much time in the sun, but I can go to the airport with you.” “Perfect,” said Alene. “Meet me here at two.” Both of Brianne’s children had gone to college in Washington D.C. and had taken jobs there. Brianne was always blue in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the day her husband had died, so she’d gone that week to visit her children. Just before Brianne’s trip, Alene had accompanied her to the police station to ask yet again about accidental bicycle collisions in Chicago that might finally provide a connection to the one that killed her husband. Eight years had passed, but Brianne wouldn’t stop trying. Alene took the kids to do errands and to the zoo, where she bought them popcorn, as promised. There was a lot of griping about heat and fatigue on the mile-long walk home. She blended a white gazpacho and served it with homemade rolls for lunch, then let the kids lie in her bed watching a movie while Cal enjoyed yet another Cubs game in the living room. Ingredients 3 cloves garlic 1 sweet onion (small to medium, cut in quarters) 1 peeled cucumber (medium to large) 1 peeled zucchini (small to medium) White part of a fennel bulb (optional, adds licorice taste) 1 cup green grapes and/or 1 small peeled, seeded apple ½ tsp lemon zest ¼ to ½ cup skinless almonds 1 slice of bread (optional but it adds gravitas) 2 or 3 stalks celery (less if you are not celery lovers – blend in or use a stalk to stir) 2 cups water, unsweetened almond milk or coconut water 1 tsp salt ½ tsp white pepper 1 tsp cider vinegar Preparation Sauté garlic and onion Add to blender with other ingredients and zap until smooth. Season to taste Pour into a glass or a bowl and serve Previous Next

This is a versatile recipe – no pecans in the house? Use only pistachios. < Back Pecan-Pistachio Chicken Breasts July 9, 2019 Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes Serves: 4 Servings Tags: Entrees, Gluten Free About the Recipe Serve with a wedge of lemon and a generous glop of hummus alongside a chopped salad, mashed sweet potato, a green vegetable, or anything your family likes! These schnitzels are great to eat the next day (if you have leftovers) cold right out of the refrigerator or zapped in the microwave. Or cut them into slices and arrange on a bed of quinoa or a mixed green salad I make lots of different variations of schnitzel, which is usually meat that has been pounded, breaded, and fried in oil. My versions sometimes use breadcrumbs (especially when one of our guests has nut allergies) but I always bake the chicken breasts. By adding a little olive oil to the egg and mustard, you’ll get a crunchy outer crust and soft, tasty chicken. This is a versatile recipe – no pecans in the house? Use only pistachios. Out of cumin? Use curry powder or coriander. The reason I don’t add extra salt is that there is salt in the mustard, and usually I buy the salted shelled pistachios (which are delicious). Enjoy! Ingredients ½ cup shelled pistachios ½ cup shelled pecans ½ cup almond flour or 1 piece of any kind of bread 1 tsp each: dried basil, garlic powder, cumin and turmeric 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, pounded about 1 inch thick 2 TBSP Dijon or other grainy mustard 1 egg 1 TBSP olive oil Olive oil spray Preparation • Dry the chicken breasts with a paper towel • In a medium bowl, stir 1 egg with mustard and olive oil • Add the chicken and turn it until it’s coated all over (Marinate for a few hours or continue) • Measure ½ cup almond flour or pulse in a food processor until fine • Add pecans and pistachios to the processor and pulse 4-5 times • Pour into a shallow bowl and toss with the herbs • One at a time, press both sides of each chicken breast into the nut/herb mixture until each breast is completely covered in the mustard sauce • Place coated chicken breasts on a sprayed cooking sheet • Bake about 25 – 30 minutes until the schnitzels are nicely browned and the smell makes you want to faint with hunger • Let the schnitzels cool down for 10 minutes or cut off a little piece to taste and pretend that you’re checking to see if it’s really done. Previous Next

Discover the all-time favorite mystery authors that keep readers on the edge of their seats. Explore G. P. Gottlieb's list of favorite mystery authors now! All-time Favorite Mystery Authors Sort by Last Name Sort by First Name Sort by Most Recent Tasha Alexander Author of The Lady Emily Historical Mystery Series Read More Jennifer Ashley Author of The Kat Holloway Mysteries Read More M.C. Beaton Author of The Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Read More Rhys Bowen Molly Murphy Series, Royal Spyness Series Read More Andrea Camilleri Author of The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Read More Julia Chapman Author of The Dales Detective Agency Series Read More Barbara Cleverly Author of The Detective Joe Sandilands Mystery Series Read More Lindsey Davis Author of The Marcus Didius Falco and Flavia Albia Mysteries Read More Charles Finch Author of The Charles Lynch Mysteries Read More Judith Flanders Author of The Sam Clair Mysteries Read More Christopher Fowler Author of The Bryant and May Mysteries Read More Mariah Frederick Author of The Jane Prescott Mysteries Read More Elizabeth George Author of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Read More C.S. Harris Author of The Sebastian St. Syr Mystery Series Read More Elsa Hart Author of The Li Du Mysteries Read More Load More

A Whipped and Sipped Mystery: Book 1 < Back Available from these sellers Click on the icon below to purchase a copy today When Whipped and Sipped Café proprietor Alene Baron finds a dead body next door, she calls the police and dashes home — to make soup for her family. Alene is 38 and divorced, living in a Chicago high rise with her father and children. She wonders if the murderer is an ex-spouse, a neighbor, or one of her employees. Then someone batters two more people who are connected to the café. There’s another mystery, closer to Alene’s heart: Is the lead detective going to take her seriously? Battered A Whipped and Sipped Mystery: Book 1 Previous Next

A Whipped and Sipped Mystery: Book 2 < Back Available from these sellers Click on the icon below to purchase a copy today When the owner of the business next door is found dead in his office, Alene Baron’s first feeling is relief. She’s been suspicious of the food supplements her neighbor has been selling, not to mention the smoothies he’s been hawking, which are much inferior to the ones Alene sells in her cafe. Plus, Stanley Huff never cleaned up his garbage in the alley they shared. As a sexual harasser and shady businessman, Stanley had enemies. One of Alene’s favorite employees is a suspect. And now that employee is missing. Smothered A Whipped and Sipped Mystery: Book 2 Previous Next

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< Back Off to Join the Circus Deborah Kalb ​ In Deborah Kalb’s debut adult novel Off to Join the Circus (Apprentice House Press 2023) it’s 2018, Howard Pinsky’s sister Adele, who ran away in 1954, as his parents said, “to join the circus,” is suddenly, 64 years later, in Bethesda wanting to be a part of the family. Howard, now 75 and a retired lawyer married to Marilyn, a retired teacher, spent years researching circuses and trying to find his sister. Now, during a two-week period when their eldest daughter is about to give birth at 46, their middle daughter’s younger son is about to become a Bar Mitzvah, and their youngest daughter is recovering from a terrible divorce, Adele forces everyone to consider the ties that bind them all as a family. There are secrets to be unearthed, resentments to be faced, concerns about the three sisters’ relationships, misunderstandings to be sorted, and worries that pull even 80-year-old Aunt Adele back into the Pinsky family circus. Deborah Kalb is a freelance writer and editor. She spent about two decades working as a journalist in Washington, D.C., for news organizations including Gannett News Service, Congressional Quarterly , U.S. News & World Report , and The Hill , mostly covering Congress and politics. Her book blog, Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb , which she started in 2012, features hundreds of interviews she has conducted with a wide variety of authors. She is the author of three novels for kids, Thomas Jefferson and the Return of the Magic Hat (Schiffer, 2020), John Adams and the Magic Bobblehead (Schiffer, 2018), and George Washington and the Magic Hat (Schiffer, 2016) — and she’s the co-author, with her father, Marvin Kalb, of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Brookings, 2011). She is the author/updater of Elections A to Z, 5th edition (CQ Press/SAGE, 2022), the editor of the two-volume reference book, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th edition (CQ Press/SAGE, 2016), the co-author of The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents (CQ Press, 2009), and the co-editor of State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (CQ Press, 2007), and has contributed updates to a variety of other CQ Press books on politics and government. Listen to Episode Buy Book Previous Next

NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Women's Fiction March 5, 2024 Inside the Mirror Parul Kapur INSIDE THE MIRROR centers on twin sisters growing up in 1950s Bombay, who aspire to become artists. The family is still recovering from the Partition of India in 1947, especially the twins’ grandmother, who once fought for justice against the British regime. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 6, 2024 Mrs. Lowe-Porter Jo Salas Mrs. Lowe-Porter is a fictional retelling of the life of the author’s grandmother-in-law, who sidestepped the boundaries placed on women of the early 20th century to spend over three decades translating the books and stories of literary giant, Thomas Mann. Lowe-Porter’s translations led to worldwide acclaim that earned Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929, but she dreamed of being a published author in her own right and struggled to find her own voice. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 7, 2023 The Good Time Girls Get Famous KT Blakemore It’s 1905, and there’s a bounty on the heads of Ruby Calhoun and Pip Quinn for trumped-up crimes they didn’t commit in Kansas. When a wannabe movie producer convinces them to star in a moving picture about their exploits, everyone’s lives are put in danger, but Ruby and Pip refuse to back down in this charming, light-hearted series about 1900s life in the west, the early movie industry, and the bonds of friendship. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 31, 2023 A Coup: Turkish Trilogy Book 3 Phyllis Skoy It’s 2016, after an attempted coup against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and because of a tip, the police suddenly show up at the office of a young journalist. Nuray, her fellow journalists, and her visiting friend Adalet are thrown into a notorious prison. They’re placed in separate, filthy and horrifying cells, and Adalet has to confront the possibility of never getting out alive. Her Jewish boyfriend has already left Istanbul and is trying to get her to marry him, but Adelet loves her country. Nuray is alone in the world, but she has to confront the father who disappeared from her life and the soldier who wants to see her punished. This is a novel about regular people trying to live their lives in the aftermath of Turkey’s takeover by a populist, authoritarian leader. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 17, 2023 The Blue Window Suzanne Berne Lorna is a social worker who helps countless depressed and disturbed patients pull their lives together, but she can’t begin to communicate with her miserable 19-year-old son, who will barely communicate and speaks in passive voice. She needs to drive up to Vermont to see to her aging mother, now suffering from a possible broken ankle, and dreads being with her because the mother disappeared without a word when Lorna was a child, and only came back in her life after her son was born. Then there’s her ex-husband out on the west coast – Lorna’s job is communicating, but she hasn’t found a way to do so in her own life. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 1, 2023 Kantika Elizabeth Graver Rebecca Cohen and her family live in Istanbul, until they lose all their wealth and are forced to leave. It’s also no longer safe for Jews, and many are trying to find a place to go. Rebecca’s father, once a successful businessman, now cleans a synagogue in Barcelona. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 25, 2023 The Pain of Pleasure Amy Grace Loyd Set mostly in a clinic for migraine sufferers run by a concerned doctor and funded by a wealthy widow, Pain of Pleasure is about tending and being tended, striving and obsession. The widow hires a nurse to spy on the doctor, who is obsessed with a former patient. And the hurricane battering the church where the clinic is housed is a metaphor for the pounding, inescapable torture of relentless headaches. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 20, 2023 Under the Blue Moon Joan Schweighardt An automobile accident in front of a homeless shelter causes Lola, a dog trainer/groomer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to renew her battle with the grief she previously pushed below the surface of her daily life. Ben, formerly an architect in the same city, has been abandoned by his family and is currently homeless. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 23, 2023 After the Barricades Jessica Stilling After her mother dies in a tragic accident, Anna cleans out her closet and finds a striking painting that she’d never seen before. She also finds a trove of letters from Stefan Terre, a name she’s never heard. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 11, 2023 Because I Loved You Donnaldson Brown Sixteen-year-old Leni O’Hare loves her horse, so when her mother tries to sell it, she rides as far as she can. It’s 1972, and she ends up falling in love with another horse-lover. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 4, 2023 Charred: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery G.P. Gottlieb In Charred, the third of G. P. Gottlieb’s Whipped and Sipped Mysteries, her heroine, Alene Baron, has a lot on her mind. Chicago is in lockdown, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, complicating Alene’s already hectic life. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 28, 2023 The Woman Beyond the Sea Sarit Yishai-Levi Eliyah is 25 when she travels from Tel Aviv to Paris to meet up with her husband, who turns out to be having an affair with a French woman. As her life crumbles, Eliyah plunges into a deep depression, returns home to her childhood bed, and slowly descends into madness. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 14, 2023 Take What You Need Idra Novey This is a story about family, the opioid epidemic in rural America, the rise of hatred and bigotry during the past few years, and the grip of creating art on those who feel its pull. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 7, 2023 Tell Me One Thing Kerri Schlottman Quinn and a friend are driving from New York City to Pennsylvania when she sees 9-year-old Lulu sitting on a trucker’s lap, smoking a cigarette. At the truck stop for her friend to score drugs, Quinn takes an astounding picture and then leaves, disappointing Lulu, who thinks maybe people will see the picture and help her. Quinn goes on to live the heady life of a successful photographer while Lulu is confronted with various kinds of abuse and dysfunction. Despite the differences in their lives, both women experience moments of great joy, and significant amounts of despair This is a novel about haves and have-nots, those who find love and those who don’t, how the AIDS epidemic fractured New York’s gay community, and the confusing world of art. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 17, 2023 I Meant to Tell You Fran Hawthorne I Meant to Tell You, by Fran Hawthorne (Stephen F. 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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb African American Fiction October 24, 2023 Indigo Field Marjorie Hudson A sweeping picture of family trauma, Native American and Black history, and the earth’s vengeance on human pettiness. A retired colonel’s wife dies, leaving him alone in a snooty North Carolina senior community. Reba, an elderly Black woman who speaks to the ghosts of her family, takes in the white child whose father killed her beloved niece. The colonel mistakenly causes damage to Reba’s old car and unleashes a torrent of spirits, while his son guards the bones that have been unearthed in what was once “Indian Field.” This is a stunning debut about race relations, land use, history, and memory. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 18, 2023 Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 22, 2020 What You Don't See Tracy Clark Cass Raines left the Chicago Police force after a morally bankrupt cop nearly got her killed. Now she runs her own Private Detective agency. Listen to Episode Buy Book September 8, 2020 Saving Ruby King Catherine Adel West Two south side Chicago families are bound together by a violence-infused past. Ruby’s mother, Alice King, has been murdered. Her father, Lebanon King, is an abusive man who endured a terrible childhood. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 31, 2020 Pale Edward A. Farmer It’s 1966, and Bernice’s husband has either died or abandoned her. Her brother Floyd invites her to join him as a servant working for white owners of an old plantation house in Mississippi. Floyd warns Bernice about the housekeeper, Silva, who lives there with her two young sons. The owner and his wife don’t speak much and there seem to be secrets hidden in every corner. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 27, 2020 The Gone Dead Chanelle Benz A decrepit house in Greendale, Mississippi once belonged to Billie James’s father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when she was four years old. Her mother dies of cancer. Then years later, her paternal grandmother dies and leaves Billie the old Mississippi Delta house. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 30, 2020 Tea by the Sea Donna Hemans A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth. He tells a series of lies and moves houses or countries whenever the truth gets too close. The young, broken-hearted mother devotes herself to searching for her missing daughter. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 8, 2020 Everywhere You Don’t Belong Gabriel Bump In Everywhere You Don’t Belong (Algonquin Books, 2020), Gabriel Bump has created an unforgettable debut novel that will sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes pull at your gut. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 31, 2021 What Passes as Love Trisha R. Thomas In 1850, at age six, Dahlia Holt is taken from the only home she knows and moved into the big house to serve her two older sisters. They share a father, who owns the house and its slaves. On her sixteenth birthday, Dahlia gets to dress up in one of the sister’s discarded dresses for a trip to the city. There, she gets separated from her family, and meets a young Englishman who thinks she’s white. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 27, 2022 Cora's Kitchen Kimberly Garrett Brown Cora, who works at Harlem’s 135th Street library, reads a powerful poem by the young Langston Hughes, who begins to offer advice about her own writing. She’s awakened to thoughts about society and the role of women, prejudice, and the plight of Black women. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 7, 2021 Gone Missing in Harlem Karla FC Holloway The Mosbys leave their life in Sedalia within hours after six-year-old Percy loudly notes that his father’s boss has made a mistake in calculating what is owed. Percy’s parents know what would happen if they stayed. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 18, 2022 What Storm, What Thunder Myriam J. A. Chancy At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 1, 2022 Bone Broth Lyndsey Ellis It’s 2015, and the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri are still simmering after the fatal police shooting sparked a national debate about use-of-force law, militarization of police, and the relationship between the police and African Americans. Listen to Episode Buy Book June 14, 2022 Black Cloud Rising David Wright Faladé Author and scholar David Wright Faladé tells the story of Richard Etheridge, who towards the end of the Civil War joined America’s first and only “African Brigade.” Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More

NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb Immigrant Fiction January 23, 2024 Nadiia Christine Evans Nadia is a young Bosnian refugee who has lost everyone she’s loved. In 1997 she gets into England on a fake passport and finds temp work in a shady office that might be doing something illegal. A new temp shows up and Nadia knows he’s from her country even though he says he’s Armenian. She can tell that he’s Serbian, perhaps the kind that hunted down Bosnians like her. Nadia sees danger everywhere. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 19, 2023 American Ending Mary Kay Zuravleff It’s the early 1900s in an Appalachian town filled with immigrants, and Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents. She can cook, clean, and take care of her baby siblings by age nine, but she loves school and wants something different that all the other girls, who get married by 13 or 14, and start having more babies than they can feed. Listen to Episode Buy Book December 5, 2023 The Shining Mountains Alix Christie Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. There he discovers majestic mountains, raging rivers, and buffalo. Listen to Episode Buy Book August 1, 2023 Kantika Elizabeth Graver Rebecca Cohen and her family live in Istanbul, until they lose all their wealth and are forced to leave. It’s also no longer safe for Jews, and many are trying to find a place to go. Rebecca’s father, once a successful businessman, now cleans a synagogue in Barcelona. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 4, 2023 Shadows We Carry Meryl Ain Meryl Ain's Shadows We Carry (Sparkspress, 2023) is a follow-up to the author’s 2020 novel, The Takeaway Men, focuses on fraternal twins Bronka and JoJo Lubinski, now in college and figuring out what to do with their lives. Listen to Episode Buy Book May 16, 2023 Hotel Cuba Aaron Hamburger Two sisters fleeing the horror of the Soviet Revolution and aftermath of WW1 are disappointed when American policy prevents them from joining their older sister in New York. Listen to Episode Buy Book April 18, 2023 Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi’s novel Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories (Amistad 2022), is a moving and unforgettable collection of stories that span a lifetime. Listen to Episode Buy Book January 14, 2019 Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaran An optimistic young Mexican woman gets pregnant while trying to cross the border into the states. An Indian-American woman struggles with infertility. When undocumented Solimar is detained by the state, Kavya and her husband foster and then fall in love with her little boy. Listen to Episode Buy Book October 6, 2020 A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son Sergio Troncoso Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation... Listen to Episode Buy Book November 13, 2018 A Terrible Country Keith Gessen The only job Andrei Kaplan has been able to find since completing his doctorate, is teaching an online, poorly-paid course. So, he agrees to fly to Moscow when his brother promises him a round-trip ticket, hockey games, and his old bedroom with free WiFi in exchange for taking care of their aging grandmother. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 2, 2021 Purple Lotus Veena Rao Already in her late twenties, Tara is relieved when her parents arrange a marriage with a man who lives across the world in Atlanta. But she understands quickly that her husband doesn’t love her or even want her. Listen to Episode Buy Book November 30, 2021 Nermina's Chance Dina Greenberg Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She’s been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular Muslims, but it’s 1992 and the Serbian Chetniks have started to destroy the city. Listen to Episode Buy Book February 8, 2022 In the Shadow of Dora Patrick Hicks In the Shadow of Dora by Patrick Hicks explores the space program’s path from the Dora Mittelbau concentration camp in 1940’s Nazi Germany, to the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Listen to Episode Buy Book March 29, 2022 River Aria Joan Schweighardt It’s 1928 and Estela Euquério Hopper, of Manaus, Brazil, is the star vocal pupil of a world-renowned musician who’d come to revive a magnificent opera house. Listen to Episode Buy Book July 26, 2022 Home So Far Away Judith Berlowitz A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Listen to Episode Buy Book Load More