For Readers: Lillian

This is a chilling tale of isolation, shame, regret, and survival. In 1915 Adelaide Henry heads to Montana to claim a homestead. She leaves behind her newly deceased parents and brings with her a steamer trunk that contains a dark secret.

This dual memoir and practical guide to healing by a psychologist and Holocaust survivor counsels patients on how to escape the prisons of their own minds, describing her harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and how it gave her particular insights into the challenges of PTSD.

Michael Frank meets 99-year-old Holocaust survivor Stella Levi at a lecture on Nazi fascism and there begins a relationship that takes place over one hundred Saturdays spread out over six years. Levi tells Frank the story of her life. She grew up on the island of Rhodes in the neighborhood of Juderia, until Germans deported the entire community to Auschwitz. This is a story of survival.

This multi-layered story is not only a thrilling murder investigation but serves as an illuminating guide to the history and bloody colonization of New Zealand and the culture of the Maori people. Auckland Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman faces up to her own culpability to an event that leads up to the desire for retribution.

A Mi'kmaq family travels from Nova Scotia to Maine to pick blueberries each year. Their 4 year-old daughter disappears one summer. The family is torn apart. A woman named Norma grows up feeling something isn't right in her life. The author explores loss, grief, hope, and the ties that keep a family together in this beautifully-written novel.