S. L. Roman’s historical novel "One Year, One Night" is centered by a teenager’s World War II diary. In 1960, Annie returns to Millside for a World War II commemoration that a famous actress is expected to attend. While there, she... Read More

A woman’s death brings grief, anger, and eventual peace to her loved ones in Taha Kehar’s novel "No Funeral for Nazia". In life, Nazia always insisted on going her own way. In death, she continues that tradition, leaving scandalous... Read More

The beauty of a nigh-untouched island is used to reflect ambitious higher thinking in "The Canticle of Ibiza", a novel of grandeur and appeal. A trip into a Bohemian wonderland serves as a magical backdrop to Justin Kurian’s compelling... Read More

With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

In Erica McKeen’s dazzling novel "Cicada Summer", a young woman, her ex-lover, and her aging grandfather reckon with the aftermath of tragedy while cloistered together in a remote cabin in the Canadian wilderness. In the summer of... Read More

In the wake of a pandemic, fear shapes human existence and beliefs in the speculative, theory-heavy novel "The Shift". In Carolyn Buffington’s musing science fiction novel "The Shift", the question of how much is known about humans and... Read More

Erotic desire clouds a couple’s minds even as a kidnapping complicates their potential future in the suspenseful novel "Pursuit of Innocence". In Bethany Rosa’s surprising novel "Pursuit of Innocence", a billionaire and a student... Read More

In Michael J. Malone’s supernatural thriller "The Murmurs", a hidden family history in the Scottish Highlands carries a terrible cost. A drowning and a suicide shatter the childhoods of Annie and her twin brother Lewis. Annie loses... Read More