Ballad for Jasmine Town
In Molly Ringle’s intoxicating fantasy novel "Ballad for Jasmine Town", humans and fae band together to save their mystical island. In Miryoku, known as Jasmine Town, Rafi... Read More
Books We've Reviewed from Central Avenue Publishing
What Start Bad a Mornin'
Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in... Read More
Heavy Is the Head
Black women poets matter in ways that poets of other races and ethnicities can’t: “Black girl must write poetry so other black girls can relate.” That Black girl poetry... Read More
Come As You Are
In Jennifer Haupt’s keen-edged, intimate novel "Come As You Are", an intense, imperfect bond yields to more expansive resilience. Skye and Zane first meet in 1987. Growing up... Read More
The Gentleman's Daughter
Sir Henry March, agent to the crown, returns in The Gentleman’s Daughter, Bianca M. Schwarz’s gritty romance sequel set in the 1820s, when Henry encounters unexpected love.... Read More
The Innkeeper's Daughter
The Innkeeper’s Daughter is a Cinderella-tinted Regency romance that brings orphaned Eliza Broad into the life of a gentleman spy, Sir Henry March. As the two hunt down a... Read More
A Place to Belong
Abbie Williams’s coming-of-age romance, "A Place to Belong", is set against Midwest and Northwestern prairie backdrops. Seventeen-year-old Millie, like all of her women... Read More
Into Captivity They Will Go
In Noah Milligan’s startling novel "Into Captivity They Will Go", Caleb, a teenage boy of perceived miraculous birth, is raised by an evangelical, end-times-obsessed mother... Read More
The Rise of Winter
Set in a time and place when humans have already nearly destroyed the Earth once, Alex Lyttle’s "The Rise of Winter" is a richly imagined middle grade fantasy about a young... Read More
Five Hundred Poor
Noah Milligan’s collection of short stories, "Five Hundred Poor", takes its inspiration from a quote by economist Adam Smith, in which he wrote that for every rich man, there... Read More