Coming of age reflection mixes with picking up the pieces after loss in THE ROAD TO ENCHANTMENT by Kaya McLaren, one woman’s growth through a broken childhood to become a healed, well-balanced adult. I loved the isolated setting near an Apache reservation, full of self-reliance ingenuity, which encourages Native American neighbors into action when Willow…

HISTORY OF WOLVES by Emily Fridlund is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who struggles to live within poverty with ex-hippies as parents in northern Minnesota. When she begins babysitting for the neighbors across the lake, she starts to feel a part of something bigger than herself. Until she witnesses and allows a terrible…

THE RIVER AT NIGHT by Erica Ferencik illustrates the Maine wilderness in a captivating, adventure thriller. If you love mid-life-crisis, off-the-grid suspense, you’ll be enraptured by this vivid prose. It kept me reading late into the night. I didn’t dare stop for fear I’d dream about the inevitable, scary thing that would happen next. Winifred…

FAR HORIZONS by Kate Hewitt is a good historical pioneer story that travels from Scotland to the New World in Canada in the 1800s. Dual storylines follow characters in both countries, keeping the reader curious about whether they’ll reunite. The book begins in Scotland on the Isle of Mull with Harriet Campbell contemplating the journey…