Candace Jane Opper’s memoir centers on a pivotal event: the suicide of a friend from her teenage years, who’s internally referred to as “Brett,” and whose real name she has tattooed between her shoulder blades. Brett shot himself... Read More

"Scotland before the Bomb" is a linguistically acrobatic novel that’s filled with zany wit and sheer randomness. There’re heaping helpings of dystopia and absurdity in M. J. Nicholls’s "Scotland before the Bomb", a sprawling... Read More

"Gabriel’s Storm" is a thoughtful coming-of-age story deftly set around a captivating crime plot. In Diego Hojraj’s "Gabriel’s Storm", a deadly revenge plot leads to deeper struggles for a gang of outsider teens. It’s 1983,... Read More

Adam Truman is overwhelmed by a shift that he’s perceived within himself, and he’s spent the long winter unable to identify what’s going on. Desperate to break free of his internal and external monotony, Adam takes drastic action,... Read More

"Here, There, and All Over the Place" is a collection of day brighteners, motivators, and thoughts set in an appealing format. Johnny “JR” Remick’s "Here, There, and All Over the Place" collects over 150 aphorisms—those little... Read More

As its lead moves from pain to healing, "Life in Violet" proves to be a riveting psychological novel. Katherine F. Robertson’s captivating novel "Life in Violet" dramatizes trauma, betrayal, healing, and transformation through a... Read More

“By all accounts, moving from place to place helps one to locate a space, a home inside oneself,” Ming Holden claims. Whether or not, or to what degree, she believes this is a central motif in her memoir, "Refuge". Twining an arc of... Read More

Pulpy, hard-living 1950s femmes fatales stand up against the ruling misogynists of their town in Ryan Heshka’s wild and wonderfully drawn graphic novel Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn. The Mean Girls Club is a group of young women at war... Read More