"The Hubley Case" is an enjoyable popular thriller helmed by a clear hero. In J. Lee’s thriller "The Hubley Case", ex-marine and present-day vigilante Ben Siebert commandeers an FBI case and goes head-to-head with unknown criminal... Read More

"The Heart of War" by national policy veteran Kathleen McInnis is part office drama, part foible-filled romp through the US’s military bureaucracy. When Dr. Heather Reilly arrives at the Pentagon to work as an academic fellow, she... Read More

Strange and magical, "Lights on the Sea" follows a retired couple to the outer reaches of their unfulfilled dreams. Once, Mary Rose and Harold Grapes planned to sail around the world with their son, Dylan—but that was before they lost... Read More

A bit of a fish story (if fish were replaced with political fisticuffs), Frank Capra’s "Cry Wilderness" follows a fictionalized Capra to a wilderness cabin in the high Sierra and into local politics, where two long-term... Read More

Angelica Shirley Carpenter’s "Born Criminal" skillfully fills in the history of an activist erased from history. While nineteenth-century women’s suffrage movements often saw elite white women fighting for their rights and no one... Read More

"A Candle for My Mother" is an inspiring family memoir that reflects on the virtues of travel, seeking new experiences, gratitude, and giving. In her captivating and thought-provoking memoir, "A Candle for My Mother", Pamela Newton... Read More

David Mura’s A Stranger’s Journey is a thoughtful, nuanced, necessary look at how the subject of race is handled in fiction, memoir, and the creative writing classroom. Mura’s book has two main goals: to explore questions of race... Read More

Sarah Stonich’s "Laurentian Divide" continues the story of northern Minnesota’s Hatchet Inlet, a vacation town whose residents are deeply rooted in a place dependent on transience. Poised on winter’s trailing edge, everyone waits... Read More