Raw prose evokes the animal nature of these inquisitive characters who fight for redemption across the globe. Ashley Mayne’s newest novel reads like a fevered dream as it trades between the accounts of a priest and a young man for whom... Read More

Eddie’s everyman persona amplifies this entertaining tale of what happens at the juncture between the familiar and the unknown. Edward Lanning, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Ford dealership owner, is having a quarter-life crisis.... Read More

Josep Pla (1897-1981), one of the most influential and controversial Catalan authors of the twentieth century, has a sensibility he declared to have been “notoriously influenced” by his admiration for the Dutch genre painters. In... Read More

In the traditions of Toni Morrison and Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Barfield presents a gorgeous and dismaying human tapestry from the edges of Southern society. Yslea is still reeling from the death of her mother when she wanders into a... Read More

Winsome and wistful, Alli Marshall’s novel centers on a timid music journalist named Bryn. Guided by the notes she hears and the stories she pries out from behind them, she captures the unheralded artistry on the observer’s side of... Read More

This dark thriller has an intelligent side, and pleases on several levels as the bodies pile up everywhere this professor goes. "The Savage Professor", by Robert Roper, is a complex, scientifically minded whodunit. The professor is... Read More

Told from the perspective of the tree that stood outside the Secret Annex, where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis, this commemorative book provides a child-friendly version of the Franks’ story. Focusing on the impact of Anne and her... Read More

This ambitious collection of Americana-themed essays blends travel, personal anecdote, history, and science. The pieces in "The World Is on Fire", Joni Tevis’s second work of creative nonfiction, tread a fine line between essays and... Read More