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Tiger

by Michelle Anne Schingler

Raw prose evokes the animal nature of these inquisitive characters who fight for redemption across the globe. Ashley Mayne’s newest novel reads like a fevered dream as it trades between the accounts of a priest and a young man for whom... Read More

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Benchere in Wonderland

by Genevieve Shifke Ali

Art and the role of the artist in society meet with African politics and exploitation in this meditation on action and consequences. An exploration of the human condition after and amidst tragedy, "Benchere in Wonderland" follows artist... Read More

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The Game for Real

by Monica Carter

Weiner’s book requires the abandonment of expectations and the willingness to delve into the lines between reality and unreality. As Czech Modernist writer Richard Weiner would have it in his provocative and existential exploration... Read More

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Lot Boy

by Karen Rigby

Eddie’s everyman persona amplifies this entertaining tale of what happens at the juncture between the familiar and the unknown. Edward Lanning, the twenty-seven-year-old son of a Ford dealership owner, is having a quarter-life crisis.... Read More

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Tales of the Master

by Kai White

Evocative, metaphorical prose delivers this story of a writer’s suicidal depression interrupted by a child and the haunting voice of ancient fables. In a single summer day in Sycamore, Iowa (pop. 897), Cole Seatstone, writer, father,... Read More

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Mourner's Bench

by Meg Nola

An inspiring mother-daughter tale set in the Civil Rights era Deep South, with religious overtones and headstrong characters. Sanderia Faye’s Mourner’s Bench is an impressive first novel, set between 1964 and 1965 in Deep South... Read More

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