With charming illustrations, Eve’s Ducklings is a sweet picture book in which a girl learns to engage with wildlife in a way that is safe, both for her and for the animals. In Maria Monte’s gentle, educational picture book Eve’s... Read More

Though love often blooms in adversity, an arranged marriage, class differences, and a sudden devastating accident all act as impediments to intimacy in Rebecca Anderson’s sweet clean romance novel, "Isabelle and Alexander". Isabelle... Read More

In poems both elegiac and snarky, Randall Mann questions what makes a better life for a middle-aged gay man living through the historic days of Covid and a federal assault on LGBTQ+ rights. The poems, though focused through the lens of... Read More

In E. M. Wright’s steampunk, alternative past novel, humans become biomaton slaves when their body parts are replaced with mechanical ones, and their brains are changed to suit their new stations by dampening or removing all human... Read More

"The Rain May Pass" is the evocative coming-of-age memoir of a young man in the 1940s. Alan Shayne’s memoir "The Rain May Pass" is about coming of age, and falling in love with a man twice his age, during World War II. The book begins... Read More

The poems of "Measures" embrace lyrical tendencies as they move through the seasons of a troubled relationship. Both absence and presence haunt the pages of b. l. bruce’s poetry collection, "Measures". A one time lover and longed for... Read More

Burdened by unresolved grief and hounded by her coach and her mother, Leah, otherwise known as Chessgirl, finds herself losing chess match after chess match. Suddenly, the very game that used to excite her brings only exhaustion. Eager... Read More

In an imagined letter to her father, Arisa White writes, “Do you remember, I bear the name you conjured, its attention turned to your shorelines, to the father missing in us both?” Though he never answers, White travels to Guyana,... Read More