Somewhere between feelings of latent crisis and ennui, Maribeth Klein has a heart attack. Only she doesn’t realize that it is a heart attack—not until the emergency room attendants roll her into surgery and away from any sense that... Read More

"Bibliophilia" will likely appeal to those who love to learn about books and their authors, and to those with a yen for collecting. In N. John Hall’s delightfully bookish "Bibliophilia", Larry Dickerson, a retired New York bank clerk... Read More

This is an affecting story about believing in oneself, and perhaps even of the importance of the supernatural. In Sherry Maysonave’s intriguing and supernatural "The Girl Who Could Read Hearts", a young girl with special powers... Read More

Chaucer’s classic stories are given new life in this accessible translation. Just like the hems of skirts that rise and fall with the current fad, many books are loved in their time before quietly being put to rest on dusty shelves.... Read More

With themes of sacrifice and the search for beauty amid tragedy, this novel lingers in idealism. In "Remembrance of Blue Roses", a divorced United Nations civil servant forges an unusual friendship with a German coworker and his wife,... Read More

Kim Ekemar creates an intriguing, complex mystery with brisk pacing and a skillful unraveling of clues. Kim Ekemar’s engaging murder mystery, "The Patricide", brings a troubled French family together for its patriarch’s seventy-fifth... Read More

It’s a lively American adventure that sparkles with wit and wisdom. From its darkly picaresque beginning that features a cruel operation that alters a child’s destiny, Colin W. Sargent’s "The Boston Castrato" tells the strange and... Read More

"Hex" is playful and self-reflective, mixing contemporary culture with folklore. “Once there were two girls and one of them was me,” writes Sarah Blackman in her debut novel, "Hex". By turns fabulous and factual, "Hex" spirals... Read More