It’s late November 1945 in Ramer, Alabama, and the author is eleven years old, living in a two-room wooden shack with his parents and sisters. The Rural Electrification Administration has not yet run electricity to this area, so the... Read More

Set in major metropolitan locales such as Chicago, New York, London, and Berlin, The Saint of Istanbul is an intriguing assortment of literary snapshots that resemble life as represented by the pages in a scrapbook. Far from aimless,... Read More

Who better to offer inspiration and a game plan for facing challenges than a man who nearly died, but did not; a man who was told he would never walk again, but did? Bill Shaner is such a man, and in "Unintended Consequences" he provides... Read More

Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Award for Short Fiction, the stories in "Out of Time", are tethered to complicated relationships and losses, often swaying in and out of reality. “Tangle Apple Flesh” begins as “Cooper sat naked... Read More

This beautifully written novel turns war’s fantasies of glorious heroism into an elegy for all who sail the “Sea of Faith” that Matthew Arnold describes in “Dover Beach.” William Carson is a World War II veteran who believes he... Read More

Stephen Cline teaches writing and literature in Hawaii. He drew on his interest in sailing, expertise in music, and knowledge of Celtic history and literature to write Echoes Over Water. The novel depicts two groups of sailors traveling... Read More

As a history of Las Vegas and its casinos—and the people who built, ran, gambled, worked, entertained, robbed, and murdered in America’s Sin City—Andrew McLean’s book strikes that rare balance between the informative and the... Read More

Disturbing historical events serve as the inspiration behind Sarah L. Thomson’s latest book Mercy, The Last New England Vampire. Unlike the romanticized vampires in much popular fiction, Thompson explores the more chilling side of... Read More