With a surety of time and place, this biting novel depicts a South still marked by racism. In Gray Stewart’s intriguing "Haylow", Travis Hemperly is lured back to his hometown of Atlanta by a surprising job offer to teach history at... Read More
Gleason captures a time when courtship was full of sweet surprises. Like Grandma Moses, eighty-four-year-old Chuck Gleason found his talent later in life. Gleason uses his own marriage of six decades to shape his novel, "Collision... Read More
Startlingly vivid memories of the Korean War put readers directly in the plane on bombing missions. Arthur L. Haarmeyer was not drafted to serve in Korea. He felt it was his duty to go. He landed in Asia in 1952 and subsequently... Read More
One of the more hidden forms of abuse comes when a romantic partner, parent, or boss creates a hostile environment by preying on a person’s fears or self-doubt. This type of emotional abuse can be devastating and have long-lasting... Read More
Thea Eide, a beautiful young Norwegian woman seeking a better life, immigrates to Gunflint, Minnesota, to work on her aunt and uncle’s farm. By the time she reaches her destination, a place that looks surprisingly like the home she... Read More
It may still be largely true that Canada is so very near at hand yet so very far away in our understanding. But in Soldiers for Sale, Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy opens a wide window on an historically and culturally significant episode in... Read More
David Goodberg’s "Selected Shorts and Other Methods of Time Travel" is a series of related vignettes—some dark, some cautionary, and most vaguely humorous—that explore human and non-human lives over a period of time in a future... Read More
For some, love may be full of hearts and stars, but for evolutionary psychologists like the author, it’s mainly a stew of neurons, genes, and hormones. In this work on how evolution affects human behavior in the romantic and sexual... Read More