Soon-to-be mothers struggle with cult brainwashing in Alexandria Faulkenbury’s question-filled novel "Somewhere Past the End". Disowned after her teenage pregnancy, Teresa finds a new family with Richmond and his alternative religious... Read More

In Alex Foster’s alarming novel "Circular Motion", loners seek purpose as technologically advanced transportation veers the world toward the apocalypse. Fleeing small-minded Alaska, Tanner becomes the assistant to the new spokesperson... Read More

Lyrical and alarming, Elisa Levi’s fabulistic novella That’s All I Know unveils a small town’s ominous goings-on. Little Lea lives with her disabled sister and her mother in a minuscule town on the edge of a forest. The residents... Read More

An interwoven father-daughter story, Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s ambitious novel "The Wanderers" is a philosophical examination of the legacy of South African apartheid. Although apartheid ended when Ruru, now a doctor, was still a child, she... Read More

Dennis E. Bolen’s insightful, beautiful coming-of-age novel "Amaranthine Chevrolet" is a hero’s journey filled with danger and yearning. In 1967 on a Saskatchewan farm, fifteen-year-old Robin responds to the death of his... Read More

Violence undoes a young couple’s love in Alan Govenar’s wrenching autobiographical novel "Come Round Right". When they meet during their freshman year at Ohio State, Adriana is a revelation to Boston-born Aaron. The daughter of a... Read More

An inventive, fabulistic novel, "North of Sunset" sets a dark scientific experiment against a background of glittering opulence. In Haley Ahern’s alluring futuristic novel "North of Sunset", a young man becomes involved with a tycoon... Read More

Driven by quiet unease and its hero’s mounting discomfort with the truth about American culture, "The Stuff What Actually Is" is a powerful historical novel. J. A. Nunn’s incisive historical novel "The Stuff What Actually Is" is... Read More