Everit Tyshinski wants to die. By gun, accident, heart attack, drowning—he doesn’t care how, he just wants it to happen. Life is too hard without the woman he loves. Tyshinski finds himself operating in a painful version of... Read More

Evensong, in the liturgical tradition, is a set of prayers, Bible readings, and responses. It is often completely set to music and takes place in the late afternoon or early evening. "Evensong", the book by Brooks Firestone, is about... Read More

Pulling back the curtain of an Australian traveling circus, Teresa B. Matvejs shows readers a world of secrets and struggles in "One Passion". Though the circus is everything Rose Vitkovskis knows and loves, it has also become a source... Read More

Each year, over 100,000 people ride the Cardinal, a passenger train between New York City and Chicago operated three times weekly by Amtrak. In his first novel, Eric D. Goodman chronicles the lives of a number of these passengers as they... Read More

Tasmania is the setting for Oliver Caine’s in Trouble Again, where the titular character, his sister, and his best friend go for an adventure in an abandoned building scheduled for demolition—they discover more adventure than they... Read More

"Coffee With Chicory" feels and acts like three different books, and because the first section is so wonderful, one wants to forgive the regrettable slide in quality. Whereas the second section, which has some degree of continuity, never... Read More

Frank Meeink once fit the American neo-Nazi archetype perfectly: he had the convictions, the clothes, the swastika tattoo, and the knack for perpetrating violence that have made this underground culture infamous. Surprisingly, today... Read More

Love lost love regained; a psychotic spurned female cute kids and slapstick matchmakers all come together in Denise Skelton’s third multi-ethnic romance "Forgotten Promises". The characters’ only ethnic or racial influences stop at... Read More