A town of craftspeople encounters maybe-miracles in Laura Stanfill’s fantastical historical novel "Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary". Mireville, in rural France, is... Read More

In Stacy D. Flood’s brooding historical novel "The Salt Fields", a Black man migrates from the South and journeys inward toward reconciliation. In 1947, Minister boards the... Read More

Young husbands learn to say goodbye in "Elegy for the Undead", the sweetest zombie story you’ll ever read. Jude and Lyle met in high school, when Lyle was out and Jude was... Read More

Caitlin Chung’s wondrous "Ship of Fates" begins with the ancient legend of Wong Zhi Mei, a Chinese bride promised by her family to a foreign suitor. But teenage Mei yearns for... Read More

The rush of a whodunit pales next to Barbara Barrow’s what’ve-they-done-and-why, "The Quelling". The novel instantly achieves page-turner status through vexing questions.... Read More

"Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark" is a wickedly funny adventure told from the perspective of a comic-book-savvy black superhero. It succeeds both as a superhero story in... Read More