Musing through a space that’s somewhere between an illuminated, psalmic narrative poem and a graphic novel attuned to the soul, "Malkah’s Notebook" is an intimate trip through Jewish mysticism and feminist theology. Malkah’s father... Read More

“Thomas Wolfe was wrong, of course. The melancholy truth is you can go home again,” writes Richard Snodgrass in his memoir "The House with Round Windows". Brother of the confessional poet W. D. Snodgrass, Snodgrass portrays his own,... Read More

Sheldon Russell’s heartbreaking historical novel "A Particular Madness" is set in midcentury rural Oklahoma. Jacob is the second child in a poor farming family. Much of his childhood is spent in isolation. He has little interest in, or... Read More

"Orpheus Rising" is a magical, memorable middle grade adventure that handles a serious topic with narrative grace. Lance Lee’s "Orpheus Rising" is a modern allegorical retelling of the Orpheus myth. In it, a father-son team is pitted... Read More

In Chris McKinney’s futuristic thriller "Midnight, Water City", a detective uncovers a conspiracy that makes him question his life’s work. Akira, the most brilliant scientist in the world, hired her head of security because of his... Read More

In the faith-filled novel "An Adventure with Abba Father", an exuberant girl brings a small town together. In Daisy Ruth Oñate Sohne’s Christian novel "An Adventure with Abba Father", a family moves to a new town and discovers the... Read More

Viliam Klimáček’s historical novel is both heartbreaking and hopeful as it shares the stories of families displaced by the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. When the Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia in August of 1968,... Read More

In 1994, Ashten Geddard, the front man of the popular UK band the Ashbirds, disappeared while attempting to climb Mount Everest. That’s how Roz Morris’s excellent novel "Ever Rest" begins—before jumping eighteen years into the... Read More