In the near future of Eve Smith’s novel "The Waiting Rooms", antibiotics no longer work, and people don’t often make it to their golden years. Following The Crisis, antibiotic-resistant strains of diseases have overrun the world,... Read More

When Jeremy meets Alexandra, he believes her light may be enough to eclipse the shadows of his past. Once an operative in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Jeremy was given a new identity as a social worker, counseling clients and... Read More

"Better Off Bald" is a realistic memoir about being a caretaker for a loved one with cancer, one that reveals all of the vulnerability that was hidden for the patient’s sake. Andrea Wilson Woods’s heartbreaking memoir "Better Off... Read More

There’s something a little mysterious at work in Hebe Uhart’s "The Scent of Buenos Aires", but it’s the ordinary mystery of other people. These thirty-eight short stories function like a panopticon, each dipping into one person’s... Read More

David L. Bristow’s "Flight to the Top of the World" captures an era of wonder in which incredibly deadly endeavors pushed the boundaries of human possibility. The nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century adventures of Walter Wellman are... Read More

Uncle Cheroot is alluring, surrounded by mystery and enlivened by his supernatural attributes. In Alan Jansen’s fantastical novel "Uncle Cheroot", a young woman aims to discover who she is by unraveling her uncle’s supernatural... Read More

A literary fantasy, Robert Irwin’s "Wonders Will Never Cease" delves into the War of the Roses and enters a world where “genealogy and heraldry are the only two sciences worth knowing.” Chivalry and political expediency coexist... Read More

With its mixture of contemporary gutsiness and nineteenth-century manners, this is a delightful exploration of leaving home. Diana Forbes revisits the Gilded Age in this lively, mesmerizing historical romance. "Mistress Suffragette" is a... Read More