Rockets Versus Gravity celebrates those who can achieve escape velocity, soaring toward freedom. Richard Scarsbrook’s Rockets Versus Gravity is a novel of confluence and... Read More

The advice is not sugar-coated—rehab is tough, and life after rehab can be tougher–but beyond the battle, promises the work, is a reclaimed world. Out of The Wreck I Rise: A... Read More

Bibliophilia will likely appeal to those who love to learn about books and their authors, and to those with a yen for collecting. In N. John Hall’s delightfully bookish... Read More

All of Oddballs’ wood engravings should be appreciated with second and third glances in recognition of the painstaking, hands-on nature of their medium. Jim Westergard’s... Read More

It’s a lively American adventure that sparkles with wit and wisdom. From its darkly picaresque beginning that features a cruel operation that alters a child’s destiny, Colin... Read More

Best of all is Starkman’s portrait of Margo—a flawed yet admirably strong victim of circumstance and biology who refuses to be a victim anymore. Monica Starkman’s novel... Read More

Paisner deftly uses the technique of grounding otherworldly fiction in everyday reality. Daniel Paisner’s A Single Happened Thing is an engaging novel that weaves past and... Read More

Jensen broadens The Garden Interior through recollections of a traveled and well-read life. David Jensen’s The Garden Interior beckons down the garden path—literally, and... Read More

Testimony of the Senses is passionately written with a vivid roster of characters. Cory Oldweiler’s Testimony of the Senses weaves an engrossing tale threaded with music and... Read More

A historically resonant post-Civil War mystery features Chicago itself as the star. Like its predecessor Shall We Not Revenge, D. M. Pirrone’s For You Were Strangers follows... Read More

The Viceroys is a fascinatingly twisted and multilayered translation of a classic Italian novel. Originally written in 1894, Federico De Roberto’s The Viceroys details the... Read More

Robert Staffanson recounts a unique life of music and spirit, from the conductor’s baton to Native American rights. In the resonant memoir Witness to Spirit: My Life with... Read More