The malaise of a small New England town in the 1960s is given an undercurrent of the infinite in Peter Selgin’s inspired novel A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space. Half is a junior... Read More

A novel of beauty and bracing nuance, "What the Living Do" follows a woman’s reconciliation to the pains of her past in pursuit of a better future. With precise language and... Read More

A whaler and his wife experience a tragedy and new beginnings in Cynthia Reeves’s poignant historical novel "The Last Whaler". Tor loves whaling. Each summer, he leaves his... Read More

An inherited property, a child who sees ghostly presences, and a brooding, handsome love interest make "The Inhabitants" a Gothic treat. Combining Gothic and modern influences... Read More

Mark Powell’s brooding Southern novel "The Late Rebellion" dives into the psychology of a multigenerational South Carolina family whose members rage against the future and... Read More

A teenage spy falls for her sworn enemy and faces impossible choices in Leah Angstman’s novel "Falcon in the Dive". Ani’s comfortable childhood was cut short by the greed of... Read More

In Robert Archambeau’s inventive novel "Alice B. Toklas Is Missing", a bizarre kidnapping mystifies the artistic circles of 1920s Paris. Ida Caine is an aspiring American... Read More

In A. D. Nauman’s unflinching bildungsroman "Down the Steep", a girl struggles with her morality during the civil rights movement. In 1963 Virginia, Willa wants nothing more... Read More

"The Penny Mansions" is a charming historical novel wherein lovable townspeople rally to save their home. In Steven Mayfield’s rollicking period novel "The Penny Mansions", a... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring,... Read More

Set in Edwardian England, Stephanie Cowell’s novel "The Boy in the Rain" concerns the passionate romance between a painter and a divorced writer. After a traumatic exchange... Read More

In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is... Read More