An Ender Wiggins-like character in a historical setting launches this novel into the realm of strong themes and lessons learned from bullying. Cliff Ashpaugh’s Josh’s Wall is a multigenerational exploration of father-son... Read More

Descriptions of violence have a tactile quality and stay with the reader into following scenes; the hectic love in Arya’s family is as lastingly conveyed. The debut novel from Raj Karamchedu, All Things Unforgiven, is a searing... Read More

Dreyer’s intelligently constructed illumination of four female theologians is both informative and piquing. Religious studies professor Elizabeth A. Dreyer returns with a work that highlights four luminescent women doctors of Catholic... Read More

The mix of theological diction and conversational prose makes the Psalms accessible to lay readers seeking spiritual guidance. From Columbia University’s emeritus professor of Hebrew Bible Walter Brueggemann comes a new work which... Read More

In Amer’s able hands, the often feminist, anti-colonist nature of veiling is brought to light. Preeminent professor of Islamic studies Sahar Amer returns with a work which seeks to demystify a looming symbol of Islam: the veil. In... Read More

Beau’s antics and arrogance make him easy to loathe and impossible to look away from in this farce on race and class for the not easily offended. Forensic psychiatrist Rusty Reeves debuts with a brazen satirical novel that leaves few... Read More

This fiction debut offers an intriguing story of a ghost seeking help to escape purgatory. Henry Brechter’s first in a new series, "Louis and the Ghost", is the story of a young boy who connects with a kindly ghost in his family’s... Read More

Traces of despair mingle with whimsical childhood reflections, alluding to a young girl’s impending push into premature adulthood in this story of wartime. Concentration camp survivor G. Pauline Kok-Schurgers’s debut is a memoir that... Read More