In Bob Katz’s novel Waiting For Al Gore, a journalist and an environmentalist working in Vermont use one another’s skills and contacts to achieve their own goals. Lenny is a journalist searching for the story that will earn him a... Read More
In Claire Rudy Foster’s speculative novel "The Rain Artist", a celebrated umbrella artist goes on the run after being framed for the murder of the planet’s wealthiest man. In a too-believable future, the planet has lost most of its... Read More
A Brazilian lawyer is reminded that intimacy is perilous in Patrícia Melo’s searing novel "The Simple Art of Killing a Woman". While researching fatal crimes against women, a lawyer lists the varying slights that caused men to kill... Read More
Samsun Knight’s novel "The Diver" is a singular mashup of noir fiction, dark comedy, occult thriller, and legal intrigue. The result is sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, and full of interesting ideas. In the book’s memorable... Read More
Grieving lovers navigate mental illness and political upheaval in Rahad Abir’s novel "Bengal Hound". East Pakistan in the late 1960s is an impoverished place marked by unrest, but life continues on, for better and for worse. Mere days... Read More
Bright colors and multiple techniques populate the illustrations of this rhyming picture book about embracing your true colors. Tired of being dreary and drab, Henry the hermit crab rebrands himself as Fabulous Crab, attaching corals,... Read More
Secrets choke two London-dwelling refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Christine Evans’s startling, sensitive novel "Nadia". In Nadia’s childhood, being Muslim in Sarajevo was unremarkable. By her young adulthood, it made her a... Read More
Azzedine T. Downes’s memoir "The Couscous Chronicles" moves across cultures, continents, languages, and time, embracing personal and global transformations during the 1980s and 1990s. Downes begins his story with his time in the Peace... Read More