Victoria McCombs’s fantasy novel "Silver Bounty" is a pirating adventure featuring impending doom and the allure of the sea. After losing many of their crew, Emme and Arn hand over the Royal Rose to Arn’s first mate, Ontario—much... Read More

Connor Beaton’s expansive self-help guide Men’s Work is about confronting and rectifying self-sabotaging habits. Across three sections, Beaton provides guidance for identifying one’s harmful thoughts and actions and for redirecting... Read More

David Mas Masumoto’s "Secret Harvests" shares the troubled history of two families alongside the extraordinary discovery of a long-lost relative. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, Masumoto’s grandparents and their children became... Read More

Tim DeRoche’s collection of fun and morbid poems, "Tales of Whimsy, Verses of Woe", draws on contemporary, fantastical, and history-based themes; its entries are flanked by imaginative illustrations. A collection of unfortunate... Read More

The aftereffects of Nazi brutality form the foundation of Shirley Russak Wachtel’s novel "A Castle in Brooklyn", which traverses six decades to address complex but universal themes, including grief, mourning, friendship, and betrayal.... Read More

Maria Rodale’s "Love, Nature, Magic" is an intriguing essay collection about shamanic communication with animals and plants in a garden. An avid gardener, Rodale found herself wondering what some of the unwanted species found in her... Read More

A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor... Read More

In Trang Thanh Tran’s horror novel "She Is a Haunting", a woman discovers that the house her father is restoring is haunted. Jade and her sister Lily travel to Vietnam to spend the summer with their estranged father. Jade has ulterior... Read More