"Dig" is a gritty literary collection whose diverse entries concern finding one’s place within a family, a culture, and a country. Latino individuals navigate myriad personal difficulties in Robert Paul Moreira’s literary collection... Read More

Establishing keen senses of both its locations and its heroes’ fates, "Place of Cool Waters" follows two men on coming-of-age odysseys. Two stories converge in Ndirangu Githaiga’s novel "Place of Cool Waters" as two young men gather... Read More

In Tegan Nia Swanson’s mystery novel "Things We Found When the Water Went Down", three generations of women seek to protect a damaged world. In the midst of a blizzard, Marietta is accused of murder and escapes custody almost as fast... Read More

In Kay Chronister’s dystopian novel "Desert Creatures", a hardened young girl finds hope where she least expects it. Magdala was born with a clubfoot. After being banished from her home, she and her father travel across a punishing... Read More

Zig-zagging back and forth across time, Li Zi Shu’s "The Age of Goodbyes" is a kaleidoscopic family drama presented through multiple perspectives. The novel’s central focus is a book also titled "The Age of Goodbyes"; it follows the... Read More

In Dennis Must’s intriguing novel "MacLeish Sq.", illusion challenges reality and invades the unsettled past. John just bought an old farmhouse in his New England hometown. He left this “mostly desolate” place at eighteen, yet as... Read More

In Jean Gill’s gripping historical novel "The Ring Breaker", a young man comes of age in the Viking-era Orkney Islands, navigating court intrigue, his own survival, and his confusing feelings about the jarl’s cursed ward. The book... Read More

A young woman tries to come to terms with grief in Tanya Turton’s poignant novel "Jade Is a Twisted Green". After the death of her twin sister Roze at age seventeen, Jade fell into a deep, lingering depression. Because she is unable to... Read More