Midwestern magic abounds in Scott Russell Sanders’s fairy tale short story collection "Small Marvels". In Limestone, Indiana, Gordon Mills is a jack of all trades whose big... Read More

Otherworldliness informs the eighteen stories of Julian Mortimer Smith’s "The World of Dew and Other Stories", which range from traditional science fiction to speculative... Read More

George Taliaferro was a multidimensional football player. An All-American and Hall of Famer, he achieved and inspired excellence. Dawn Knight, Taliaferro’s former student and... Read More

Lyz Lenz’s "God Land" is a nuanced examination of the political, personal, and religious complexity of middle America. Beginning with Lenz’s own faith-filled dream of a new... Read More

In "Somewhere West of Lonely", Steve Raymer reports on a world most of us will never see: the varied, complicated, and quixotic terrain of his own life as a National Geographic... Read More

When cornered, we’ll admit to preferring poetry with rhythm—musicality in the ear surely deepens a poem’s effect. Yes, Jennifer Givhan, we’re awed by your use of pause... Read More

This entertaining study reveals a public fascinated with the unverifiable. Even for those who don’t believe the hokum, aliens and UFOs are a source of fascination—explored... Read More

This chilling and urgent call to action spares no detail in its mission to present the facts on a looming humanitarian disaster. Climate-change warning messages too often focus... Read More

Wilfried N’Sondé delivers a deep slice of the human experience in luminous prose. Flight, forgiveness, and the plight of an illegal African immigrant in Paris are the... Read More

Both loving and heartbreaking, Earth As It Is lends a new perspective to an ongoing dialogue. Jan Maher’s Earth As It Is is a heartfelt story about an extraordinary life.... Read More

Alona Frankel’s simply titled memoir, "Girl", presents World War II and the Holocaust through the eyes and imagination of a young Jewish girl trying to make sense of daily... Read More

In Erin Stalcup’s "And Yet It Moves", science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of... Read More