"Thirty-Seven" is uncomfortable, disturbing, and impossible to put down. The surviving member of an infamous cult finds himself drawn back into the life in the uneasy but engaging "Thirty-Seven" by Peter Stenson. A cult known as the... Read More

Leslie Pietrzyk’s haunting "Silver Girl" begins in 1980, with a nameless narrator starting her freshman year at a prestigious Chicago-area university. The narrator escaped her economically depressed Iowa hometown, but the emotional... Read More

Jones has a gift for drawing beauty out from brutality, even when it’s of a lopsided and unexpected sort. Welcome to Andermatt County, Texas, a place that exists at a phantasmagoric crossroads between Southern gentility and vice, whose... Read More

"The One Apart" is a complex novel; its beautiful, emotional, and intense writing deals in big questions. Justine Avery’s philosophical fantasy "The One Apart" is intriguing and captivating as it chronicles Aaron’s singular journey... Read More

"The Sasquatch Murder" is an accomplished and thoroughly enjoyable tale, the kind of book one is sorry to finish because it’s such good company. No typical bigfoot tale, Jeffery Viles’s "The Sasquatch Murder" is a genre-bending novel... Read More

"The Other New Girl" is a suspenseful, absorbing, literary exploration of life, death, and the stuff that happens in between. "The Other New Girl" is much more than a suspense-fueled coming-of-age novel.  L. B. Gschwandtner employs... Read More

"The Bad Dream Notebook" is a thoughtfully crafted entrée into the dramatic, messy, and nightmarish world of substance abuse. Linda Dahl’s novel "The Bad Dream Notebook" follows an artist’s harrowing journey through a series of... Read More

Thoughtful, touching storytelling provides a balm and resonance for our most human selves. Set against the backdrop of WWII, When It’s Over is a poignant story that examines how history defines our humanity, and that explores... Read More