A chance meeting with a much younger woman changes a man’s life in the romance novel "A Journey Must Be Taken". In H. L. Howard’s romantic novel "A Journey Must Be Taken", a middle-aged man endures challenges to be with the woman he... Read More

Dual storylines connect across time in Erin Bartels’s historical novel "The Lady with the Dark Hair", about women who expand their visions of themselves through art. In midlife, Esther cares for her schizophrenic mother, a reclusive... Read More

"The Fool’s Tarot" takes a visionary, intuitive approach to reading tarot cards that can enlarge the intuitive capacities of both the reader and the querent. Gerald-Johan Vanoise introduces a new, intuitive method of tarot... Read More

In Sherri Winston’s novel "Shark Teeth", an adolescent girl faces challenges when she and her younger siblings reunite after being in foster care. Twelve-year-old Kita kept her family together for years while her mother was drinking or... Read More

A crisis exposes faultlines in a marriage in Cormac James’s whipsmart, lyrical novel "Trondheim". In the winter, Trondheim ought to be magical, but to Lil and Alba, who are in the grip of a family emergency, it reads as surreal.... Read More

A family is caught between the land and the sea in Linda Crotta Brennan’s coming-of-age novel The Selkie’s Daughter—a story rich in Celtic lore. Brigit’s father is a fisherman; her selkie mother chose to live her life on land.... Read More

C. D. Rose’s "Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea" is a collection of short stories about how storytelling can help to face the terrors of the passage of time. Scenes of creative inspiration mingle with violence, tension, and grief... Read More

We can never be quite sure what powers a poet draws upon, where exactly she gets her mojo. Chelan Harkin discovered it the hard way: at the bottom-most point of mental and emotional suffering she was mystically blessed with creative... Read More