Readings from New Novels

A Theory of Love: A Novel by Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where they are? Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock‘s mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Marjorie Herrera Lewis’s debut historical When the Men Were Gone: A Novel tells the inspiring based-on-a-true-story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson—a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas—comes to life.