In the vivid fantasy setting of "The Borealis Queen", a warrior relies on her instincts and trusted companions as she comes into her own. Set in a brutal prehistoric world, Henry Guard’s historical fantasy novel, "The Borealis Queen",... Read More

The intriguing historical mystery novel "The Summer of Haight" is narrated with an undercurrent of surrealism. In George Petersen’s whimsical mystery novel "The Summer of Haight", 1960s San Francisco is subjected to intrigue and... Read More

Active and introspective by turns, "108" is a philosophical thriller that conveys the necessity of a constant pattern of give-and-take with nature. Science, the politics of environmental justice, and the supernatural collide in Dheepa R.... Read More

A cinematic and involving historical novel, "Contests of Strength" traces a love that is challenged by village circumstances. History and modern science meet amid secrets and romance in Melissa Slager’s historical novel "Contests of... Read More

The stories within "Memory Plays" are about how people reconcile truth and memory through romances, grief, the creative process, and even miracles. In Stephen Evans’s distinctive short story collection "Memory Plays", four sets of... Read More

The global slave trade backgrounds Solange Burrell’s fantastical coming-of-age novel "Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace", about what it truly means to act in favor of the greater good. In eighteenth-century West Africa, sixteen-year-old... Read More

In the musing novel "Shadows on the Moon", a veteran searches for his place in the world after surviving the personal and collective trauma of war. Peter Freeman Vantu’s spiritual novel "Shadows on the Moon" seeks to understand the... Read More

A community remakes itself to fit a vision of freedom in the sympathetic Revolutionary War–era novel "Chains of Fate". The very notion of freedom—both of the soul and of the body—hangs in the balance in "Chains of Fate", Melissa... Read More