With equal parts insightful and humorous, this soul-searching venture blurs the line between reality and insanity. "Song of the Vagabond Bird", by Terry Kay, is the story of a man desperate to forget the woman he loves. Five men on an... Read More

The speaker in Bennett’s poetry questions her mother’s love and her sexuality, offering coming-of-age insight. "Canoodlers" looks hip—bright colors, swooping birds, titles in the table of contents alternating between black and... Read More

Playing with perspective and personification, Hoffman introduces new observations about pregnancy. In her poetry collection "Paper Doll Fetus", Cynthia Marie Hoffman takes on a voice of the disenfranchised, those made marginal and... Read More

Newman sifts through the complexity of place and humanity to find both the ugliness and the beauty in our world. Richard Newman’s latest collection of poetry, "All the Wasted Beauty of the World", strips away the rose-colored lenses... Read More

While adroitly delving into the timeless themes of friendship and conflict, Aladjai also vividly explores a little-known culture. Across time and cultures, conflicts have erupted. During such wars, some people look beyond the differences... Read More

From the Paris setting to the autopsy scenes, Molay’s descriptions add believable imagery to this page-turner mystery. Jewelry heists and murders keep police busy chasing the bad guys in Crossing the Line: A Paris Homicide Mystery, by... Read More

Pitch-perfect dialogue and narrative prose reveal teen culture and the journey of self-discovery. Few adults have the spot-on sense of teenage culture that novelist Carrie Mesrobian has. Critically acclaimed for her candid young-adult... Read More

A vibrant teen protagonist with a sharp sense of humor makes for an entertaining guide to the weird world of this surreal, touching novel. Bruce Edwards’s The Age of Amy: Channel ’63 plops a fresh protagonist into a quirky setting to... Read More