A feisty teenager tries to solve the biggest puzzle of her life in order to bring a billionaire tech genius home in Dwight D. Karkan’s engaging novel Bixby Timmons and the Dragonthorp Riddle. When Bixby and her family move so her... Read More

"The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory" is a legacy-driven, period biography of an Irish family. Julia Turner’s family biography, "The Murphys of Rathcore Rectory", covers professors, ministers, abusers, doctors, soldiers, and charmers... Read More

"Shadowshine" is a rollicking adventure in which a poetic possum undertakes a quest for self-knowledge in his fantastical world of talking animals. In Johnny Armstrong’s eccentric novel "Shadowshine", a talking possum adventures in a... Read More

"Beloved Comrades" is a moving novel about a religious community that’s formed to welcome a variety of members. In the stories of Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s novel "Beloved Comrades", a new Orthodox synagogue brings a sense of comfort and... Read More

A literary foray into the macabre madness of womanhood, Sarah Rose Etter’s "The Book of X" captures the innocent joys and creeping horrors of a young girl’s trek into adulthood. Chapters are organized in short vignettes, offering the... Read More

Well-researched and heartfelt, "The Success Lie" brings together strategies for achieving a well-rounded life. As a single mother and the owner of a growing company, Janelle Bruland knew all about stress—including that it is often... Read More

A group of friends whose lives have diverged reunite in this sardonic, amusing novel. Mateo Monda’s novel "Midtown Madhatter" uncorks madcap humor while delving into weighty subjects like substance abuse and addiction. In the late... Read More

An open-minded search for meaning that covers much literal and metaphysical ground, "Is God in That Bottle Cap?" is a compelling and interesting text. John D. Sambalino’s mystical "Is God in That Bottle Cap?" deftly mixes elements of a... Read More