An aspiring activist has rude awakenings during his efforts to effect change in the revealing coming-of-age novel "Proles". In Barry Bergman’s thoughtful bildungsroman "Proles", an idealistic young man endures industrial labor in 1970s... 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

A moving novel about compassion and redemption, "Lost in Perdition" places a serendipitous friendship at its core. In Shana Mavournin’s resonant novel "Lost in Perdition", an unhoused man seeks redemption and reconnection through... Read More

In the insightful novel "Should Have Told You Sooner", a divorced woman comes to terms with the pains of her past. A woman confronts her English past in Jane Ward’s eloquent novel "Should Have Told You Sooner", about first loves that... Read More

In the quirky novel "The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden", a wounded woman embraces art and the unexpected. A woman moves to a small town to heal in Nan Sanders Pokerwinski’s zany novel "The Utterly Unacceptable... Read More

In Susan McCarty’s absorbing, nostalgic novel "2008", the lives of a group of estranged high school friends intertwine again fifteen years later. The story begins in 1993, on the night teenage Stevie, her boyfriend Sam, and her best... Read More

About new beginnings and the warmth of family life, "Inhale Exhale" is an atmospheric, cozy romance novel. A courageous divorced mother begins dating again in Nicole MacPherson’s emotive novel about midlife revival, "Inhale Exhale". In... Read More

The Pickerings’ Last Tango is a bittersweet, affecting novel about grief and the power of true love. In John Grayson Heide’s moving novel The Pickerings’ Last Tango, a grieving husband makes the difficult choice to leave the world... Read More