A grieving girl stumbles onto a supernatural distraction in the involving mystery novel "Welcome to Washington Fina Mendoza". In Kitty Felde’s series-opening mystery novel "Welcome to Washington Fina Mendoza", a girl whose father works... Read More

"Born in Space" is a lush science fiction allegory for the strength of a mother’s love and the unbreakable bonds of family. Jeremy Clift’s epic science fiction novel "Born in Space" is about the human costs of space colonization and... Read More

A scarred art therapist who’s hungry for personal healing returns to her hometown to confront troubling memories in the cathartic novel "What Was Lost". In Melissa Connelly’s evocative novel "What Was Lost", a woman’s pursuit of... Read More

Harmony and clarity are found as four men pursue happiness in tandem in the endearing novel "The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart". In Jerry Wald’s soulful novel "The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart", the longtime friendships between... Read More

Thrilling plot twists, tantalizing clues, and suspicious characters abound in "The Hennessy Lie", a novel about inheritance and identity. In Annette Masters’s intense thriller "The Hennessy Lie", a long-lost family and a surprise... Read More

"Sex Education 101" is an edifying, wide-ranging essay collection that illuminates human sexuality and biology studies. "Sex Education 101" is professor Jeana Jorgensen’s sprawling, irreverent collection of essays on the intersections... Read More

Phanopoeia, explained Ezra Pound, is “the throwing of an image on the mind’s retina” on the “visual imagination.” When she flits between wolves and space trash, glass eyes and does and “bruised skin of milk,” Maria Williams... Read More

In whatever she does on the page, Katie Prince practices a subtle, omnipresent cadence of syllables so physically pleasing as to cause a blush. Linguistics, science fiction, philosophy, grief—polymathematician at ease—in this debut... Read More