Until I read Twist, I didn’t know that the Cloud is deep in the ocean, not high in the sky. If it accomplishes nothing else, Colum McCann’s novel makes us realize how fragile the internet is and how easily it can collapse.

Anthony Fennell, a burned-out novelist and alcoholic, is assigned to write an article about a fiberoptic cable outage somewhere in the South African region. The repair mission commander, John Conway, is an enigmatic character obsessed with both his job and an actress...

Families are falling apart in this well-written tale featuring Hilde, a 14-year-old farm girl. Her mother Jasmine drags the kids to California, leaving their father behind in Wisconsin. Meanwhile two desperate Hispanic men, Joaquin and Fernando, try to sneak across America’s southern border. What unites these storylines is Gabriel, a migrant who works part-time on Jasmine’s goat farm while waiting for Joaquin to join him.

Despite Hilde’s love of animals and her friendship with a benevolent...

Does the world have to be a place of misery and conflict? What’s the point of life if things never get any better? Dr. David Jeremiah addresses these issues in his joyful exploration of heaven.

Jeremiah argues that we are never satisfied with our lives because we have a natural longing for what we lost when we were expelled from the Garden of Eden. His book contains numerous anecdotes about people who have experienced that longing; others who have struggled against it; and still others who...