Two friends deal with the loss of their former bandmate in Magnus Merklin’s moving graphic novel "DiSCONNECT". After forming their band in high school, three twenty-year-old friends look forward to the future. But one dies, and a year... Read More

What was supposed to be a chill gig turns into a lurid exhibition from which an indie musician fears she may never recover in Lydi Conklin’s lush novel "Songs of No Provenance". To escape the reality of what she’s done, Joan drives... Read More

In Irena Karafilly’s haunting novel "Tunes for Dancing Bears", a woman gives birth to a stillborn child and struggles with the shock and grief that follows. In September 1991, Lydia delivers a full-term baby in a Montreal hospital.... Read More

Centered by radiant parent-child relationships, Sarah Yahm’s exquisite novel "Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation" is about chronic illness and defiant love. Louise and Leon meet at a friend’s Shabbat dinner. She’s just fled sitting... Read More

"A Man Askew" is an intriguing novel in which an everyman’s fortunes take unusual twists. A downtrodden copy editor investigates his detective father’s past in Joe Costanzo’s brooding novel "A Man Askew", about uncertainties in the... Read More

Youthful ingenuity is applied to achieving military success in Operation Desert Storm in the amiable novel The Commander in Chief’s Trophy. In Paul H. D’Anna’s brief, based-in-truth novella The Commander in Chief’s Trophy, army... Read More

"Such Good People" is a hearty novel about injustice that is nonetheless infused with hope. In Amy Blumenfeld’s multifaceted novel "Such Good People", a fateful encounter impacts a close friendship and exposes troubling... Read More

A man revisits an ill-fated love affair in the gritty, tragedy-infused Atlantic City novel "Love in a Dark Place". A former lover reflects on his lost partner in Geoffrey Douglas’s historical novel "Love in a Dark Place", about... Read More