A woman who longs for belonging navigates the perils of romance and religion in Ora Murphy’s engrossing novel. In Ora Murphy’s novel "The Pruning", a woman searches for love and religious belonging. Ruth, a single mom of three,... Read More

Juggling the dramas of a Senate campaign, "Center Stage" is a suspenseful novel about a rock star candidate with a party-filled past. Wayne Avrashow’s political novel "Center Stage" follows an ex-rock star’s campaign to join the US... Read More

"Timewall Speaks" is a fascinating novel about an ex-convict who’s searching for a sense of purpose. In his coming-of-age novel with dark undercurrents, "Timewall Speaks", Kirk Ward Robinson portrays both human cruelty and the... Read More

Beneath the tranquil developments of Joanna Rose’s coming-of-adulthood novel "A Small Crowd of Strangers" lie dire possibilities, but also the hope of meeting one’s authentic self. Now thirty and absent a sense of definitive... Read More

Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a series of chapter-long vignettes. Like the Fleetwood Mac song... Read More

A bicycle newspaper route helps an anxious boy mature in the novel "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made". A new bike would help Skeeter, but it won’t solve all his problems. His father may lose his job, his mother spends all her time caring... Read More

Rumors and jealousy have irreparable consequences in Suzzy Roche’s novel, "The Town Crazy". People love to gossip in Hanzloo, Pennsylvania: about Lil, who hasn’t been out of the house all summer; about Luke, who just moved from New... Read More

The Wars Among the Paines is a thought-provoking novel about the lasting consequences of war on societies, families, and individuals. In John M. Millar’s introspective and philosophical novel The Wars Among the Paines, a Vietnam... Read More