Barbara Presnell’s grace-filled memoir reflects on the loss of her father and a sibling trip to Europe to re-create his World War II travels. Presnell’s father, Bill, died after surgery when she was fourteen years old. Her mother,... Read More

In Antti Tuomainen’s dark comedic thriller "The Burning Stones", competition for the CEO position at a Finnish sauna company heats up when someone begins killing off the potential applicants. Anni is Steam Devil’s top salesperson,... Read More

Keith Gilyard’s sprawling memoir "The Promise of Language" makes a passionate case for the power of language, particularly Black language, to transform lives and enliven art and culture. Born in Harlem and raised in Queens, Gilyard... Read More

In Kevin G. Chapman’s mystery novel "Double Takedown", veteran detectives suspect that an open-and-shut murder case was, in fact, a frame job. When a Broadway actor drops dead at a fundraising gala, all the evidence points to his... Read More

An interdisciplinary history of flooding and flood stories, Gareth E. Rees’s book "Sunken Lands" explores the eerie legacy of climate change in humanity’s past. Weaving the oracular, poetic, and horrifying together in tales of... Read More

Incorporating a wide range of references to art, science, and religious history, "Knock at the Sky" is Liz Charlotte Grant’s beautiful, daring, sweeping interpretation of Genesis. In this mesmerizing discussion of the biblical book,... Read More

In You Don’t Need to Forgive, trauma psychotherapist Amanda Ann Gregory challenges the assumption that forgiveness is a requirement for recovery. Drawing on Gregory’s dual experiences as a clinician and a survivor of childhood abuse... Read More

Comedy stirs between like-minded writers and meddlesome matchmakers in John J. Jacobson’s romance novel "Cupid on the Loose", about Californians who bond over Shakespeare. Billy is an aspiring novelist with a penchant for old-fashioned... Read More