Smith’s talent for crisp comparisons and ear for music turn many passages into beautiful considerations of the search for inner peace. Amid the “fragmentation” and loss of selfhood she felt after having children, Christie Havey... Read More

Familiar yet worthy ideas on renewal, perseverance, and dedication permeate a story sure to appeal to parents who desire alternatives to the menace in Grimm tales. Shaun Brennan debuts with a sober tale of honoring nature and... Read More

Donna Brookman Kaulkin’s debut novel examines the too-little-mentioned subject of crime against older women, with emphasis on the main character’s gradual emotional and physical decline. When Brenda Corrigan, an independent... Read More

These well-executed, surprising stories succeed best when fears gradually intensify, and when the cold, unsparing nature of the characters’ conditions bloom with frightful implications. Flaminia Ocampo returns with her latest... Read More

Former Wall Street banker invades Mongolia to tell stories of the people, and to rediscover herself anew. Once a Wall Street banker, Patricia Sexton quit her lucrative but increasingly draining job to intern at a Mongolian television... Read More

Accessible layout and focus on hearty homestyle dishes help you spice up your repertoire of Southwestern cuisine. Sonoran, New Mexican, Tex-Mex: Southwestern cuisine includes many variations, conjuring fiery, rustic comfort foods. Drawn... Read More

Lush, tactile descriptions and impressionistic scenes bring alive this historical novel about an author of supernatural fiction. Violet Paget (whose pen name was Vernon Lee), the formidable British Victorian writer of supernatural... Read More

Evoking masculine, dangerously intimate, polished surfaces, "Straight Razor" reveals libidinous encounters, elegies, and satires on careerism in poetry. San Francisco-based Randall Mann, author of Complaint in the Garden and Breakfast... Read More