Motherhood weighs heavily on Alison D. Moncrief Bromage’s poetry, the wonders of conception, heredity, birth, child rearing, et al, seem at once burdensome and miraculous. And, of Daedalus, Greek myth man with all manner of inventive... Read More

In this riveting historical novel, eighteen-year-old Joaquín del Toro has everything he could possibly dream of: a rich inheritance, a beautiful girl he is madly in love with, and the esteem and love of his family. But when trouble... Read More

Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush achieves its goal of reclaiming a Canadian pioneer story. Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie’s original, autobiographical account of her years living in the Canadian wilderness, is... Read More

Savage Wells, Wyoming, isn’t the easiest place to call home. Frontier beauty Paisley Bell would know. She’s the town’s acting sheriff, dispensing justice with one hand while she cares for her aging father with the other. She’s so... Read More

The archeology of lost, forgotten, hidden sound, archeophonics seemed a useful approach for moving beyond poetry’s aesthetic qualities, so Peter Gizzi trained his versemaker on repeated words, phrases, and themes, resulting in this... Read More

Alona Frankel’s simply titled memoir, "Girl", presents World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes and imagination of a young Jewish girl trying to make sense of daily experience and the world being torn apart around her. Frankel... Read More

This is a boisterous mystery with an intellectual backbone. "Cluster of Lies" by Samuel Marquis is an entertaining and unpredictable thriller that kick-starts and shows no signs of slowing. Young boys from the same Colorado neighborhood... Read More

"Falling Like Ember" is solid and complex, a story of troubled love that comes complete with a dash of the paranormal. A study in contrasts, Christina L. Schmidt’s "Falling Like Ember" is the gritty yet whimsical romance of two young... Read More