Via expansive ruminations and inventive metaphors, this memoir explores the slow, somewhat painful evolution toward the self. Following in the tradition of writers who encounter... Read More

Fans of contemporary romance mixed with a mystery subplot will be happily sated. Bygones, by Lisa K. Nielsen, entices with sympathetic characters and a series of mysterious... Read More

Williams populates her historical fiction with people nearly broken by their experiences. Set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Soul of a Crow, the second book in the... Read More

This dark novel enters the realm of the forbidden and feared with humor and empathy. Anakana Schofield takes readers into the strange world of Martin John, flasher, public... Read More

Straightforward and matter-of-fact, Chesman communicates the joy and satisfaction to be experienced in a homestead kitchen. “There is always something going on in the... Read More

This grisly and bizarre murder mystery is the perfect YA stepping stone to Stephen King. A washed-up detective contacts a movie producer for a meeting. He asks for money and... Read More

With historical insight and the voices of numerous imagined personalities, Little Bighorn’s cultural legacy comes to light. With multiple players, diverse voices, and... Read More

Jarman’s prose circles ideas, revisiting them, adding flesh and depth to what seemed to be a fleeting character or encounter. Divorced and abandoned by the love he thought... Read More

Two tough, career-driven people fall in love in this novel of nerve-wracking suspense. Sometimes, in romance, twenty-four hours is enough. In that time, love sparks bright and... Read More

Wain shares fascinating anecdotes about his travels around the world. Over the course of eighty years, David Wain managed to visit seventy-seven countries, marry three women,... Read More

These poems, about a daughter with a cancer, offer rich contemplation and deft formal technique. Jeredith Merrin begins her poetry collection Cup with a tidal wave, the near... Read More

Liu is the first to the wreckage, like a reporter at the scene, but his understanding moves far beyond the factual into the metaphorical. “You ask me to speak but my mouth... Read More