This duo is an unusual, important, and skillfully written contribution to Holocaust literature. Deep research, adept reporting, and personal experience make for a gripping read in Maurice Rajsfus’s two-book publication, Operation... Read More

"Her Own Hero" is a highly readable study whose historical accounts of sexism and xenophobia bear repeated discussion. Wendy L. Rouse’s "Her Own Hero" examines the social conditions that led to the women’s self defense movement of... Read More

Ex-military man Jake Cantrell is the sardonic observer-investigator around whom this flawless mystery revolves. This fast-paced, character-driven novel features an ex-military man as he attempts to catch a killer, and discover who’s... Read More

The images evoked in this reframing of vampire legends are both familiar and strange. Lee Markham’s cross-genre "The Truants" pulls no punches in its paradigm-shifting treatment of vampire legends. An unnamed man sits on a park bench... Read More

"Strange Alchemy" features a unique solution to the Roanoke mystery in a YA paranormal thriller. Gwenda Bond’s "Strange Alchemy" solves the historical mystery of Roanoke with a thrilling YA adventure tinged with romance and... Read More

Morrow savagely satirizes geopolitics and war-mongering elites in this linguistically playful comic fantasy. World Fantasy Award winner James Morrow’s latest novel is a savagely witty riff on the classic silent film, The Cabinet of Dr.... Read More

Lazy summer days are captured in this small-town, gently elegant novel. Kathleen Novak’s second novel, "Rare Birds", is a lovely slice-of-life work that introduces myriad residents of a small town whose stories intersect. The entire... Read More

Warm and occasionally edgy, this self-discovery-on-the-road novel evokes meaningful memories. In Susan Jackson Rodgers’s quirky This Must Be The Place, Thea Knox has just graduated college and is on a solo road trip from California to... Read More