An oenophile’s mystery novel, "Lies in the Cellar" features a part-time sleuth who benefits from the help of her friends. A Sonoma winery, murder, and the search for a historical treasure combine in Parker French’s fun mystery novel... Read More

Dizzying visions haunt the otherwise delicate beauty of Frederic S. Durbin’s supernatural novel "The Country Under Heaven". Since surviving the Battle of Antietam, Ovid experiences the intrusion of premonitory shimmers. As he migrates... Read More

In Cynthia Pelayo’s novel "Vanishing Daughters", a woman haunted by grief is stalked from the shadows of her waking and dreaming lives. After Bri loses her mother, Aurora, to cancer, she takes over the house that has been in her family... Read More

Time travel is used to address the climate crisis, growing class inequality, and the looming threat of social collapse in the startling science fiction series opener "Hive". In DL Orton’s cautionary science fiction novel "Hive", the... Read More

Laura J. Martin’s "Wild by Design" is essential reading, raising pertinent questions about what it means to be “wild” in an era of widespread ecological disruption. The concept of wildness itself is called into question via... Read More

A strong woman with a penchant for forgiveness navigates the tumult of her complicated relationships in the historical novel "Unruly Human Hearts". In Barbara Southard’s rousing historical novel "Unruly Human Hearts", a woman navigates... Read More

Merging out-of-the-ordinary events with everyday relationship dramas, "Even After Always" is a captivating bildungsroman. Steven Ives’s stirring coming-of-age novel "Even After Always" mixes mystery and romance into its story of... Read More

Visual anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Thomas’s eloquent memoir-in-essays "The Raven’s Nest" covers her time in Iceland, where her views about people’s relationships to land and to each other sharpened. The book draws contrasts... Read More