Caroline Kim’s masterful short story collection captures myriad voices with nuance and insight. Their subjects impressive in their breadth, the stories focus on characters young and old, both women and men, and across cultures and... Read More

"The Wind Traveler" is a lyrical novel about loss and atonement. Ángel, seeking to numb the pain of losing his mother, abandons his law training and joins the army to fight against Peru’s Shining Path revolutionaries. He finds... Read More

Katherine Snow Smith muses on the vicissitudes of life in her essay collection "Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker". Smith’s twenty-two essays follow a loose chronology. The daughter of a prominent Southern journalist, Smith also... Read More

"Deadly Arts" is a complicated mystery centered on a mysterious crime. In Ken Brigham’s mystery "Deadly Arts", a perplexing situation comes to the attention of a legendary former police detective. The death of a Nashville artist... Read More

"The Girlfriend Mom" is a laugh-filled memoir about growing through the imperfect experiences of joining with a family. Dani Alpert’s darkly funny memoir "The Girlfriend Mom" is about forging a relationship with her divorced... Read More

Driven by its faith in the transformative power of humor, Elephants in my Room is a lighthearted personal collection. Christie Nicholls’s Elephants in my Room is a quirky collection of personal stories. First focused on travel with... Read More

Robin Hemley’s erudite essay collection "Borderline Citizen" probes the meaning of nationality. Profiling enclaves and exclaves, overseas territories, and displaced people, the essays reveal the human and environmental costs of... Read More

Robert Cocuzzo’s satisfying travel story "The Road to San Donato" is about honoring family connections and self-discovery in the context of history. Cocuzzo and his father, Stephen, set out to return to the Italian mountain village of... Read More