Eerie happenings weave through the lives of these small-town folks, making these snapshots not just stories, but character studies. "Unfinished Stories of Girls"—a haunting collection of short stories penned by veteran writer Catherine... Read More

An intimate and real portrayal of memory loss tells the story of an imperfect love maintained through mutual caretaking. Brenda Webster’s novel "After Auschwitz" is subtitled “A Love Story,” and it is often a melancholy one.... Read More

While "Mabel and Me" is a love story, it is also a tragedy, tracing comedic actress Mabel Normand’s career through the eyes of a young man. In his imaginative, highly readable novel, Jon Boorstin winds the reel back to days when... Read More

Precise prose incites reflection—of life, of death, of dueling identities. In form and content, "The Book of Duels", Michael Garriga’s debut, is an outrageously original collection of fiction. Garriga examines many central issues of... Read More

Don’t worry, be happy, and just continue to climb; Reynolds shows us how. Amazing snow-capped mountains, rocks, and glaciers, along with new friends and old, set the backdrop for A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains, by... Read More

Woods’s concise sensory details create horror and gruesomeness, as well as a solid visual impression. A criminal twilight zone reminiscent of the classic television series meets hardcore realism in this jaded twist on human nature.... Read More

Cynical stories put a fresh twist on the Aesop fable tradition. The enjoyable "Otherwise Fables" collects three works by Oscar Mandel. It combines forty-six short fables collectively named “The Gobble-Up Stories,” along with two... Read More

Rebellious Hettie brings spirited character to this historical novel of wildcatting and bootlegging. With "Magnolia City", Alderson debuts with an intensely descriptive novel set in 1928, the pre-Depression oil-boom years, as Houston,... Read More