"The Words of the Wandering" strikes a perfect balance between fun and danger, school and socialization, and friendship and romance. D. E. Night’s "The Words of the Wandering", the third novel in the fantasy series The Crowns of... Read More

In North Korea in 1950, twelve-year-old Pak Sora sees her father only when he arises from the hole the family of five has dug for him in the backyard so that he can avoid being conscripted into the army. The family cowers in place as... Read More

In Sandra Fernandez Rhoads’s young adult fantasy, "Mortal Sight", an ambitious teenager directs her unearthly powers to destroying vicious monsters, endangering the lives of those around her. Since she was seven, Cera and her mother... Read More

Phyllis Barber’s "The Desert Between Us" is a historical love story about the American West and the need for human connections. Set in the wilds of rural Nevada after the Civil War, the novel focuses on Geoffrey, a road builder tasked... Read More

Created in a magical labyrinth of roiling emotion, the assassin Eli hopes to earn her personhood by hunting an elusive ghost. "The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass" is a surreal adventure. Eli is a weapon, stitched together to fulfill the... Read More

Life-changing moments lost, reimagined, and regained form the backbone of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s meditative, lyrical "Vanishing Monuments". Alani is a nonbinary, Minneapolis-based art professor who is forced to return to their... Read More

"Keeping Time" is a rich novel that explores the nature of a marriage and asks whether love is a monolith, a miracle of biology, or an artificial construct. Alternating between the late 1980s and the early 2000s, the story focuses on a... Read More

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s novel "Starling Days" is a gentle treatise on the anatomy of sadness, wherein the many manifestations of modern melancholy raise questions about what it truly means to be “okay.” Mina wants to silence the... Read More