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Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from.

Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, corporate greed, and climate calamity — as a teenage girl leads a rag-tag group of followers through a scary world. Two of Butler's most famous fans, Toshi Reagon and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon have adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera, premiering in Michigan this weekend.

Today, we return to one of the most anticipated YA reads of the year. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Michigan’s Angeline Boulley is at once a a ripping thriller and a complex story of a girl finding her way in two cultures. Since our conversation in February, it hit the New York Times best-seller list.

An auto accident leaves a little girl with a shattered leg. She spends the next year bedridden in a body cast, wondering if she'll ever be back in school…

It’s been about ten years since Peter Ho Davies came out with his first novel, The Welsh Girl. It was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Now,…

Eileen Pollack's new novel, A Perfect Life, took a while to find a publisher.The book features a postdoctoral research scientist on a quest to uncover a…

There aren't many books that serve up history, suspense, crime and a love story, all beautifully tied together.Wolf's Mouth manages to offer all that and…

Writer Shannon Gibney tackles some very sensitive and emotional subjects in her new young adult novel See No Color.First, she speaks to us with the voice…

All across Michigan, high school seniors are donning their caps and gowns and getting ready to graduate. For many, the next big adventure is going away to…

The Old Testament story of Cain and Abel is one of the most compelling in the Bible. How could a man kill his brother?The tragedy is at the heart of the…