In Rinny Gremaud’s fascinating novella "Generator", a woman investigates nuclear energy and her parentage. “I was born in 1977 at a nuclear power plant in the south of South Korea,” the unnamed narrator opens. She and her mother... Read More

In Andrew Krivak’s transfixing novel "Mule Boy", the survivor of a tragic coalmine accident is haunted by painful memories and repressed trauma. In 1929, thirteen-year-old Ondro has considerable experience working in the local mines.... Read More

In Eoghan Walls’s wry, poignant historical novel "Field Notes from an Extinction", a naturalist’s research is disrupted by the arrival of a feral child. In 1847, Ignatius receives a royal commission to study the Great Auk. He... Read More

In Rebecca Ferrier’s captivating novel "A Spell for Drowning", sisters’ fates are tied to the mythical beings off the Cornish coast. Kensa lives in Cornwall. Her outlaw father was executed; her mother remarried. Charged with watching... Read More

A determined Ethiopian woman enters the fight for Eritrean independence in Donica Merhazion’s riveting historical novel "Born at the End of the World". To escape an arranged marriage, Elen leaves Ethiopia for Eritrea. There, her aunt... Read More

The lives of people of multiple faiths intersect to edifying effect in the heady novel "The Double-Edged Sword". In F. Michele Ramsey’s illuminating historical novel "The Double-Edged Sword", a tenacious woman experiences romance... Read More

Shifting cultural messages about masculinity and sexuality filter into a man’s daily life in the musing historical novel "Who Will Cliff Date?" David A. Robinson’s wry novel "Who Will Cliff Date?" is about sexuality, identity, and... Read More

As the United States teeters toward civil war, a small Missouri community ekes out a unique existence in the engaging historical novel "Lime Spring". Jack Williams’s historical novel "Lime Spring" focuses on the foundation and history... Read More