This loving homage to role-playing games is dialed-in, lighthearted, and knowledgeable, frolicking through familiar fantasy grounds with joy. In Andrew Snook’s interactive fantasy novel Dungeon Jest, a wondrous realm is reimagined in... Read More

Innovation & Imitation for Nations is an enlightening history book that reveals Western patterns of technological theft. Mohammed Ahmad S. Al-Shamsi’s illuminating history text Innovation & Imitation for Nations suggests that... Read More

Irish journalist Sally Hayden’s "My Fourth Time, We Drowned" is a meticulous account of the horrifying North African refugee crisis. In 2018, Hayden received a surprise Facebook message from an Eritrean man locked inside of a Libyan... Read More

In Irene Hannon’s Christian romance novel "Sea Glass Cottage", two hearts rekindle a spark that both thought was extinguished forever. Jack is content with his life in cozy Hope Harbor, so when Christi—the girl who shattered his... Read More

What young woman wouldn’t want to discover a secret basement room filled with sequined gowns, feather boas, and wigs? In Amy Tector’s novel "The Honeybee Emeralds", Alice Ahmadi is that lucky woman. And then she puts her hands in the... Read More

A young couple confronts feelings of fear, loss, grief, and love in Jordan Crane’s transcendent graphic novel "Keeping Two". Tense from arguments and traffic, Connie and Will arrive home and make a deal: he’ll wash the dishes in the... Read More

James Broderick’s "The Last Words of James Joyce" mixes murder into an irreverent campus satire. This eccentric story is led by a former PhD student who moonlights as a pornographic script writer, and who believes that he’s found one... Read More

Eugen Bacon’s speculative short story collection "Danged Black Thing" ignites the dreadful reverberations of sacrifice and the unflinching trajectory of choices set in motion. By embedding horror into the realm of possibilities, Bacon... Read More