A Korean family learns to live with their difficult history in E. J. Koh’s novel "The Liberators". Insuk and her newborn son, Henry, left Korea in the early 1980s to join her husband in California. But Korea will never leave them... Read More

"The Underwater Panthers" is an imaginative novel that is directed by the strange adventures of dedicated allies. In Charles Porter’s novel "The Underwater Panthers", the fourth volume in the Shallcross series, a voice-hearer, his... Read More

In the sensitive novel "Blaize Speaks", a girl and her friends forge new identities in the foster care system, learning to seek independence. In Kirk Ward Robinson’s second series novel "Blaize Speaks", a girl comes of age in the... Read More

In the unforgettable mystery novel "Journey to Merveilleux City", secrets are uncovered and epiphanies are reached in the course of a singular journey. In Stephanie Barbé Hammer’s novel "Journey to Merveilleux City", strangers on a... Read More

Avalanches of anxiety and poor decisions bury two reunited men in the compelling novel You Don’t Belong Here. In Jonathan Harper’s novel You Don’t Belong Here, a bisexual writer stumbles because of the ideological troubles of a... Read More

Michael J. Wilson’s lyrical, pensive novella "A Labyrinth" reimagines the Greek myths of Daedalus, King Minos, Queen Pasiphaë, and the labyrinth of the minotaur. The book begins with a direct address regarding the concept of a... Read More

With a dizzying menagerie of connections, scandals, and misremembered histories that become clearer as the book progresses, "The Palisades" is a dark tale about the follies of lifelong pity. A glitz-obsessed caregiver is mired in... Read More

Set in the shadowy Louisiana bayous, the coming-of-age novel "More than a Hashtag" celebrates a boy’s perseverance through danger and loss. Rich with imagery and Cajun expressions, Penny Poulsen Watson’s coming-of-age novel "More... Read More