New Books In Literature

In Go On Pretending (History Through Fiction, 2025) Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall in love with the show’s African American leading man. She’s a pioneer of the 1950s golden age of television, challenged to hide Jonas Cain’s identity and their romance, especially from her boss Irna Phillips, the woman who invented soap operas. Years later in the 1980s, Rose’s daughter, Emma Kagan leaves the USSR where she was born and struggles to survive in America after the Soviet union collapses. Then it’s 2012, and Emma’s daughter Libby joins the women’s revolution in Syria. Rose flies to join her granddaughter and shares secrets she’s buried for a lifetime about her involvement in the Spanish civil war and her dreams of a fair society. Alina Adams is the NYT best-selling author of soap opera tie-ins, figure skating mysteries, and romance novels. Her 1995 Regency Romance, "The Fictitious Marquis," was named a first #OwnVoices Jewish Historical by the Romanc