While "Mabel and Me" is a love story, it is also a tragedy, tracing comedic actress Mabel Normand’s career through the eyes of a young man. In his imaginative, highly readable novel, Jon Boorstin winds the reel back to days when... Read More

Woods’s concise sensory details create horror and gruesomeness, as well as a solid visual impression. A criminal twilight zone reminiscent of the classic television series meets hardcore realism in this jaded twist on human nature.... Read More

Cynical stories put a fresh twist on the Aesop fable tradition. The enjoyable "Otherwise Fables" collects three works by Oscar Mandel. It combines forty-six short fables collectively named “The Gobble-Up Stories,” along with two... Read More

Cotler channels classic poets to imbue his narrative with fluid sound and rhythm. T. Zachary Cotler illuminates the beautiful, disturbed mind of a fictional poet in his transcendent novel, "Ghost at the Loom". Cotler, known and... Read More

With compassion, Schutzer shares a quirky story, balanced in its humor and solemnity. A pregnant potbellied pig and a dying woman are at the heart of this novel about birth, death, and the power of love. Amy Schutzer’s whimsical... Read More

The Adirondack is conveyed in poetic terms, with a tragedy set against several years in the snowy, rugged locale. Mary Sanders Shartle paints a strong portrait of New York’s rugged Adirondack region in her debut novel, "The Truth and... Read More

It’s perhaps a bit disingenuous for Angela Pelster to declare that her marvelous collection of essays is not a memoir. She might argue that nature is the principle subject, with an emphasis on trees; trees communicating with one... Read More

Basil, carrots, green beans, lettuce, potatoes, and tomatoes—these six common garden inhabitants are the perfect introductory plants to get kids interested in cultivating their own plot of land and preparing their own food. Katherine... Read More