Lucid, interconnected portraits of adults reveal defeat, yearning, ambition, and loneliness. Nanette L. Avery pays impressive tribute to the Southern Gothic in A Curious Host. Against a backdrop of heavy rain, this panoramic novel... Read More

"Envoy of Jerusalem" is a captivating work of historical fiction. Helena P. Schrader’s Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian d’Ibelin and the Third Crusade is a detailed work of historical fiction that offers insight into the religious politics... Read More

"Rockets Versus Gravity" celebrates those who can achieve escape velocity, soaring toward freedom. Richard Scarsbrook’s "Rockets Versus Gravity" is a novel of confluence and departure, bringing characters together or pulling them apart... Read More

The undertone of a wordless answer to loneliness and doubt runs beneath its lines of elegantly crafted prose. "The Universe Playing Strings", by R. M. Kinder, is a tapestry of middle America threaded with music, as souls drift into each... Read More

It is fulfilling to accompany this charming narrator on his journey of transformation. A journey through intense grief is at the heart of Eugene Mirabelli’s deeply affecting novel, "Renato After Alba", a standalone follow-up to Renato... Read More

Though it shows the disturbing sides of fundamentalism, this novel also compassionately portrays evangelical Christian life. A rare, earnest portrayal of evangelical, fundamentalist Christians—who speak in tongues, cast out demons, and... Read More

This resonant novel explores the intersections of truth and fiction. "Fever Tree", by Tim Applegate, takes its name from a band that, to people of a certain age, evoked the promises and disappointments of the late ’60s and early... Read More

"What We All Have" explores and dissects how humans relate to illness and death, touching on themes of connectedness and reaching outside one’s self to find fulfillment. Ray Dacolias’s "What We All Have" is an intimate novel that... Read More