It’s 1985 and Reagan hasn’t won the Cold War. Stillwater and Joyner, operators in a shadowy Army undercover organization, are in Japan on a mission they think is beneath their talents. Word has come down that Chukaka Ha, an... Read More
"65 West 55th Street", Gagan Suri’s debut novel, follows the classic star-crossed lover scenario. Karan has been living in the United States for several years after moving from his native India to attend college. He works for the Hyatt... Read More
"Sharing Power" is the story of the rapid rise of Colombian women to leadership between the years 1957 and 1998, a time when Colombia’s drug violence was raging. When Barbara Frechette, a journalist, editor, author, and wife of the US... Read More
Marie Suzanne Dillon and her sisters travel the globe together, but always end up talking about their Canadian childhood, even on the beaches of a tiny Caribbean island half a world away. Equal parts travel journal and personal memoir,... Read More
“They’d want the old Joshua. It’s what they’d expect,” a soldier returning from the First World War sighs as he makes his way back home to a small town in the mountains of Virginia. Like so many returning from so many wars,... Read More
Interweaving ancient and contemporary events through the lives of two women in "The Beach at Herculaneum", first-time novelist Susan G. Muth takes a page or two from Anya Seton’s Green Darkness and Daphne du Maurier’s The House on... Read More
In his debut collection, Ron Parsons mines the northernmost region of the American Midwest, mapping the lives of those bound to the beautiful and hard area by love, family, duty, and sometimes simply by snow. Parsons is concerned with... Read More
Growing up is hard. Growing up in a cult is harder, and this is the coming-of-age process that Jane endures in Lenore Zion’s "Stupid Children". After her father unsuccessfully attempts suicide, Jane is placed with foster parents who... Read More