In Ameera Patel’s novel "Outside the Lines", narcissism and addiction blur the lines of reality. Drug dealers kidnap Cathleen, but her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice her disappearance. Meanwhile, the family’s... Read More

Bianca Goddard, an alchemist’s daughter living in the last years of Henry VIII’s rule, is called upon by the local constable to help solve a murder in Mary Lawrence’s "The Lost Boys of London". The victim is a boy, found hanging at... Read More

Bea and Erica, who are outwardly just roommates, have a relationship that’s so intense that it bewilders Bea. First published in 1954, Dola de Jong’s novel The Tree and The Vine hums with obsessive energy as it follows the confusion... Read More

Riffing on the collisions between tradition and modernity, Elaine Chiew’s winsome, playful, and sometimes wistful short story collection "The Heartsick Diaspora" hopscotches across continents and time periods, focusing on Malaysians at... Read More

In the opening poem of White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, silent ancestors elude the speaker, keeping her history and that of her family forever enshrouded in smoke, but modern science lights some small match, scattering the ghosts.... Read More

In the mystery novel "Disappeared and Found", a young woman looks for answers about her past and ends up finding more than she bargained for. Kerry Reis’s mystery novel "Disappeared and Found" involves an adoption story that might... Read More

"A Peculiar Peace" is an adventure-filled historical romance set on a marriage of like minds. In Lori Hart Beninger’s historical novel, A Peculiar Peace, rising abolitionism and romance are set against a volatile antebellum backdrop.... Read More

The poet and the naturalist view wilderness with a different set of lenses, ’tis true, but each discipline is much improved when informed by the other—as proven by Thoreau. Deborah Pope shifts back and forth as the moment calls for,... Read More