A fleeing man has grandiose adventures on his way out west in the eventful novel "The Gantlet". In J. James Wheeling’s entrancing historical novel "The Gantlet", a man undertakes a fevered quest to refashion his life in California. In... Read More

A fourth grader adopts a creative way to remedy the gulf between how she feels inside and how others perceive her in Julie A. Swanson’s insightful novel "North of Tomboy". No one in Jess’s Northern Michigan rural family, church, or... Read More

Lynne Spriggs O’Connor’s memoir "Elk Love" pays homage to the challenging, beautiful land that brought her deep, enduring love. A scholar and museum curator fascinated by Native American art, city-bred O’Connor had visions of... Read More

A self-deprecating, lovable angel leads Anni Sezate’s atypical coming-of-age novel, "I Fail at the Afterlife". David does not mind being dead. While he misses his family, he watches over them as a guardian angel. He spends the rest of... Read More

Tiny San Nidro, nestled between forest and sea in southern Italy’s Puglia region, is a forgotten place, locked in the past and graced with wild beauty. Many of its young people have left to seek their fortunes elsewhere; the few... Read More

Culture clash meets generation gap in this memoir by Ayomide Adeniola, a first-time author born in London and raised in southern Nigeria. "Me, My Mother, My Life" unflinchingly explores dysfunctional family relationships, the strong bond... Read More

In the small town of Pine Tree, New York, sixteen-year-old Danielle Walkerman struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved mother, who died in a car accident. Although surrounded by her loving family—her father, Big John; her... Read More

“The greatest theme in American literature,” writes Scott Russell Sanders, “is the search for right relations between humankind and nature, between civilization and wildness.” It is a theme central to Sanders’s own... Read More