Laura Bernstein-Machlay is a native of Detroit who, after decades away, returned to her home to find it hovering on the brink of massive change. The city, past and present, is the backdrop for her essays. Most of the essays are personal... Read More

"Apart" is a soapy thriller packed with action scenes and spattered in blood. C. J. Pastore’s fast, dramatic thriller "Apart" follows a young couple who are menaced by a vengeful Russian gangster. With exciting scenes and stimulating... Read More

"Worthy" is a highly readable novel with an uplifting reminder that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Judy Salz’s illuminating "Worthy" features realistically flawed characters with a message to deliver. In this... Read More

Krystal A. Smith’s "Two Moons" is an imaginative and whimsical collection of speculative short stories focused on themes of love, loss, fertility, and redemption. Each story is more fantastical and surprising than the last. Yet no... Read More

From Montaigne to Auden to Sir Mix-A-Lot, Martinez pulls from a broad swath of influences to tell his story of moving into adulthood and measuring what makes a man. For him, the answer is as varied as his influences, which include... Read More

In this inspiring collection of essays, fifteen Australian women from various backgrounds come together to share their experiences of growing older in a world that treats aging women as invisible. "Women of a Certain Age" celebrates the... Read More

"Black Sugar" opens as pirate Henry Morgan dies clutching his gold, his ship sinking under a Caribbean forest. In this moment of vivid magical realism, Miguel Bonnefoy sets the stakes for his novel—sunken treasure in the islands and... Read More

"The Moby-Dick Blues" is Michael Strelow’s outstanding fictional tale of a developmentally disabled boy, a scholar, and an original Herman Melville manuscript. The Kraft family of Massachusetts, consisting of Mother, daughter Salome,... Read More