A troubled girl learns how to be a stable, contented woman in Lisa Russ Spaar’s novel "Paradise Close". After spending six months in a psychiatric institution, fourteen-year-old Marlise finds herself alone in Paradise Close, her family... Read More

In the musing science fiction novel "Geodysseus", a scientist races to uncover the truth about a vehicle that crashed in the desert. In Joe Costanzo’s science fiction novel "Geodysseus", a Death Valley find prompts fears of a Russian... Read More

The spiritual novel "Sunnyside Up" follows two sisters who confront eternal truths with a helping of heavenly wisdom and earthly charm. In Rea Nolan Martin’s otherworldly novel "Sunnyside Up", two sisters who live and work among the... Read More

In Michael Daley’s novel "Telémachus", a painter seeks to learn about Mac, the father who abandoned him. This update of the tale of Ulysses’s left-behind son includes a flight from accountability, a heroic cycle, and testimonies... Read More

In Luke Francis Beirne’s immersive novel "Foxhunt", cultural ideals are overwhelmed by geopolitical realities and covert operations. In 1949, Milne, a Canadian writer, attends Paris’s International Day of Resistance to Dictatorship... Read More

In Fredrick Soukup’s foreboding novel "Blood Up North", a hard-scrabbling Minnesota family confronts the backlash of criminality. Nineteen-year-old Cass’s brother, Jack, hides stolen drug money on their grandmother Tilly’s... Read More

Cobbling together the story of a place from local lore, fairy tale remnants, and natural memories, Irene Solà’s novel "When I Sing, Mountains Dance" is intoxicating. Homesteads dot a mountain high in the Pyrenees, climbing up to a... Read More

Mark Powell’s "Lioness" is a haunting literary thriller that probes an emotional and spiritual quest for meaning amid despair. Two years after the death of their seven-year-old son, David learns that his estranged wife, Mara, is... Read More