In Therese Bohman’s coming-of-age novel "Mount Verity", a childhood tragedy alters the trajectory of an artist’s life. On Easter Eve in 1989, Hannah’s older brother Erik disappears during a midnight trip to a mountain with a mythic... Read More

With an easygoing style, Joseph Piercy recommends one hundred notable works of world literature through the medicinal lens of bibliotherapy. As a mental health practice, bibliotherapy centralizes writing and literature as a means to help... Read More

Family secrets have an outsized spiritual influence in Liz Prato’s virtuoso historical novel "Purgatoire". Near the Purgatoire River in Colorado at the turn of the century, mining industries start up, attracting European immigrants.... Read More

An advertising professional is hired to train an artificial intelligence bot in Justin Feinstein’s gripping epistolary novel Your Behavior Will Be Monitored. UniView is at the forefront of artificial intelligence development,... Read More

A woman maps cultural expectations and desires onto her ailing body in Egana Djabbarova’s singular novel My Dreadful Body. Tackling one body part per chapter, this bildungsroman follows Egana, an Azerbaijani daughter, as she learns... Read More

Moira Welsh’s compelling social survey addresses the financial, emotional, and social disconnects that many women encounter during their senior years. An investigative journalist, Welsh’s acclaimed Third Act project for the Toronto... Read More

Photographer Virginia Mcgee Richards documentary text "The Inner Passage" shows how history altered a region and its people over centuries. The Inner Passage, introduced here as a series of canals and rivers along the coastline of South... Read More

A vampire invades Woodstock in the entertaining graphic novel "Woodstake". In 1927 in upstate New York, a vampire awakens. Van Helsing helps to put the soul of a bitten woman to rest, but the vampire escapes, hibernating for years until... Read More