"The Savior of 6th Street" is Orlando Ortega-Medina’s lucid and engrossing new novel about a man who grows up in Los Angeles’s dark, 1980s underworld. Virgilio is twenty years old, an accomplished artist, and street smart. He lives... Read More

Two men try to outrun the traumas of their past, but leave destruction in their wake, in the sensitive and suspenseful thriller "Buddies". In Kip Cassino’s taut chase thriller "Buddies", two veterans leave a bloody path behind them as... Read More

"Women Who Knew Jesus" is a feminist theological text that focuses on the active participation of women in Jesus’s ministry. Episcopal priest Bonnie Ring’s probing study of sixteen biblical women, "Women Who Knew Jesus", focuses on... Read More

"To Trust in What We Cannot See" is an absorbing, science-fueled time travel novel that asks what events we might change if we had the means. In Dennis Manfield’s novel "To Trust in What We Cannot See", an author and a scientist... Read More

The winkingly endearing stories of Nancy McKinley’s "St. Christopher on Pluto" function like a scrapbook, capturing life in a small Pennsylvania town through connected anecdotes that span decades. Before their neighborhood Halloween... Read More

"Buddies" is a heartbreaking story about friendships forged in dark places and the psychological toll of war. Kip Cassino’s dramatic thriller "Buddies" follows fugitives from a society that they almost died to protect. Captain and... Read More

Alpert’s memoir is filled with love and compassion as it confronts the struggles of being a family member to an addict; it suggests a path forward to families under similar duress. Lou Alpert’s "Surrender" is a compelling personal... Read More

"Catahoula" is a humorous coming-of-age story that reminisces on a community’s past. Bobby Franklin’s entertaining and refreshing young adult novel "Catahoula" follows the escapades of two brothers living in central Louisiana. It is... Read More