Rocket Malone is not thrilled with the direction her life is taking. Her mom has just remarried, and they are moving from their hip cottage in Venice Beach to her stepfather’s home in Hollywood. Her best friend, Gillian, has a new... Read More

Kearns skillfully walks the tightrope between feminist polemic and literary experiment. "Kingdom of Women" turns the tables on patriarchy, creating an alternate world where bands of vigilante women strike back at transgressors. Rosalie... Read More

Winsome protagonists return in this novel that pays tribute to the classic, closed-society English mystery. Donna Fletcher Crow’s affable, problem-solving duo returns in "A Most Singular Venture", the fifth volume in a literary... Read More

A Prospect for Murder is a contemplative and slow-paced mystery with fantastic scenery and lovely characterization. Jeanne Burrows-Johnson’s "Prospect for Murder" is a unique mystery set against the lush backdrop of Hawaii. A haunting... Read More

Realistic depictions of Ozark life and surviving memories of war make this novel compelling. Sara Rhodes and Bob Smith’s "Iniquities of Gulch Fork" is the believable story of vulnerable people falling prey to a con man, addiction, and... Read More

Delight in the presence of a poet so sane as to make you want to sit at her feet, lean against her knees. And yet, Jean Hollander’s poetry won’t stroke your cheek with comforting missives—her work is commanding, powerful, spare as... Read More

Turning dispensationalist theology on its head, this work argues that Christians can experience joy now and look forward to the future. J. E. Gulbrandsen’s Jesus Delayed: What the Bible is Really Teaching about the Rapture,... Read More

Silverman avoids the mantle of a warrior mom; she exposes vulnerability, ugly emotion, and beauty in equal measure. My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome is journalist Amy Silverman’s candid... Read More