In the dozen linked short stories of Rachel King’s gritty collection "Bratwurst Haven", lovable, flawed characters navigate aging, parenthood, and relationships. Set in Colorado in the recent past, the book depicts a gentrifying area... Read More

This is Eden? is a careful historical novel that follows a pioneering family woman along her new adventure. A Christian family from Chicago moves to rural Wisconsin in Nancy Radcliffe’s brisk historical novel This is Eden?, a story... Read More

Cary Fagan’s "The Animals" is a gentle burlesque in which bureaucratic whims alter the downward trajectory of a nondescript, struggling tourist town. After the brief defiance of a semester spent studying architecture, Dorn succumbed to... Read More

Tessa Brunton shares her experiences living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, in her graphic memoir "Notes from a Sickbed". Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a little-understood disease that produces... Read More

"Breathing Oxygen" is a timely leadership guide about connecting with, and serving, others. Jason V. Barger’s practical leadership guide "Breathing Oxygen" encourages fostering environments of connection, possibility, and energy.... Read More

"Faith Hacker" is a tech-savvy Christian text that mines the links between computer science and theology for meaning. James Wilcox’s "Faith Hacker" is inventive in its use of technology to promote a biblical approach to life. Part... Read More

In Clarence Boulay’s delicate, mesmeric novel "Tristan", a woman’s ardor on a volcanic island tests her emotional thresholds. From its seafaring opening aboard a lobster boat bound for rugged Tristan, a remote South Atlantic outpost,... Read More

"Affect" is a surreal novel about death, love, existence, and nonexistence. A woman grapples with intense philosophical questions and romantic feelings for a classmate in Charlene Elsby’s novel "Affect". She met Logan at the university... Read More