Suffused with supreme empathy, M. Darusha Wehm’s "The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human" is a probing speculative novel about the seductive landscapes of one’s memories. In New Zealand in 2043, life is more equitable.... Read More

The reserved daughter of a family of well-heeled, damaged alcoholics determines who she wants to be in Hays Blinckmann’s poignant bildungsroman "Tiny Little Earthquakes". One of Elliot’s earliest memories is of her mother Francie’s... Read More

The interlinked short stories of Urszula Honek’s unapologetically stark novella "White Nights" focus on ordinary lives that are subject to savage turns of fate. There are beautiful days in Binarowa, Poland, where the sky goes aflame... Read More

A reeking yellow mist of unknown provenance haunts people across periods, assuming familiar, deadly patterns, in the foreboding literary novel "Traverse". The mysteries behind a pungent yellow fog and the unspeakable horrors left in its... Read More

A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More

About redefining personal success and turning one’s visions into reality, "Live Your Opus" is an encouraging self-help book. Inspired by the soul-searching that followed a sudden loss, Janine Mathó’s supportive self-help book "Live... Read More

Carrot Cake and Pufftail are “NOT ordinary bunnies”; they defend their woods, and their furry and feathered neighbors, by ferocious yet cuddly means. Thus, when a fox moves in and sets its sights on Mrs. Quail’s eggs for lunch,... Read More

"Hellebore Fields" is a dark romance novel that’s marked by inherent suspense. Toeing the line between love and obsession, Rivkah Plume’s dark romance novel "Hellebore Fields" follows a naive academic’s love affair with an infamous... Read More