Ash Roper needs a good story if he wants to save the Charley Town, the weekly tabloid he and his wife publish. With the whispers of drug deals, corruption, escapes, and violence surrounding it, Bay Area State Hospital (BASH), a state-run... Read More

"Finding Life", James Graham’s debut novel, follows Chance Gordon as he goes through the process the title indicates. Chance’s story of rebirth is steeped in memory and the sadness and hope of nostalgia. Graham begins the prologue... Read More

The town of Bittersmith, Wyoming, is rarely the scene of a murder, but on a winter day in 1972, with a blizzard moving in, the sheriff takes the call from a farmer’s wife, who announces, “Gale G’Wain run him through with a... Read More

“I’ve decided to start a blog about what it’s like to get a life-threatening disease.” With these words, seventeen-year-old Norwegian Regine Stokke opens her heart and mind to the world as she shares her battle with a rare and... Read More

Even the most experienced home chefs may seldom think about the dangerous and painful sacrifices made by the generations of cooks who came before them, or the evolution of the processes that make food more than just a nutritional... Read More

Henning Mankell is best known as a crime writer. "The Shadow Girls" is a novel about a different sort of crime: the treatment of desperate immigrants in the country where they hoped to find safety and freedom. Tea-Bag, from Nigeria,... Read More

Detroit, 1912. Will Anderson, a key figure in D.E. Johnson’s previous two novels, The Detroit Electric Schemes and Motor City Breakdown, seeks to help Elizabeth Hume uncover the truth about her cousin Robert, a patient in Eloise Insane... Read More

During a visit to a commander who controlled provinces in northern Afghanistan, a Pakistani journalist spotted blood and chunks of flesh in the courtyard. He was told that the commander had just handed out punishment to a soldier. For... Read More