In K. L. Denman’s engrossing Hi-Lo novel "Trance", a perfectionist teenager loses control. Kira has a tight handle on her life and on her best friend Brigid’s psychic powers. When a horrible accident leaves Brigid’s client dead,... Read More

A mother works to improve her government and her family in the revealing novel "Owls, Doughnuts, and Democracy". A woman with political ambitions teams up with a knowledgeable octogenarian to effect change in Jason A. N. Taylor’s... Read More

A masterful satirization of contemporary society’s sins, "EnWorld" is an engaging supernatural novel. In Leland James’s whip-smart corporate satire "EnWorld", Satan and his devilish subordinates are on a quest to strip the world of... Read More

A vulnerable, intelligent teenager navigates grief and his changing relationships in the absorbing novel "American Lit". A gay teenager navigates parental grief and neglect, a flirtation with his English teacher, and an unexpected... Read More

In Scott Alexander Hess’s pastoral novel "Drought", an isolated man inherits a farm and learns about the estranged relative who left it to him. When Parnell, an aimless orphan, inherits a tobacco farm from his Uncle Willy, he moves to... Read More

Victoria Zeller’s humorous coming-of-age novel "One of the Boys" follows a transgender teenager’s changing relationship with the football team she left behind. Grace, a high school senior, gives football one more chance after... Read More

The church in which an expectant mother sought refuge becomes the source of her troubles with her son in the moving novel "The Gift". In Scott Terry’s decades-spanning historical novel "The Gift", a vulnerable young mother-to-be is... Read More

A man draws meaning from his dreams in his search for purpose and love in the contemplative novel "In Search of the Return". In Joshua Raymond’s philosophical novel "In Search of the Return", a lonely man searches for the meaning of... Read More