A haunting literary fantasy novel about what four royal siblings will do to survive, "Sand to Glass" is an ominous introduction to Remy Apepp’s new fantasy series. The Great Being, bored and alone before the creation of the world, fell... Read More

"Death by Chaos" is a compelling novel in which a moment changes four college students’ lives forever. Renaii West’s coming-of-age novel "Death by Chaos" focuses on a four-girl friend group in college in the 1970s. Easygoing Tasha,... Read More

"Trail of the Warrior" is a polished novel about the deep struggle of recovering from substance use. Four very different people share their stories of recovery from substance use in Trail of the Warrior: A Fable of Hope. The language of... Read More

The gift of "Southern Son" is Evans’s willingness to write within the space where life meets death. "Southern Son" by William Edmund Evans features two books of poetry, both written in the aftermath of the suicide of the poet’s son,... Read More

Running throughout the narrative are strong threads about the untapped potential of women. In "The Mermaids of Lake Michigan", Suzanne Kamata explores one girl’s coming of age in the 1970s with heartbreaking detail. Trapped by her... Read More

Lighthearted satire and high-tech devices meet in There’s an App for That. Advances in software and gadgetry are often met with a certain degree of public mania. In the mind of comedy writer Ed Toolis, the conveniences of the... Read More

Sensuous prose teases out peculiarities in ostensibly conventional host of characters. “Life itself … just prolong[s] the inevitable” reflects a character in Flannery O’Connor Award recipient Nancy Zafris’s (The People I Know,... Read More

To scholars of Native American culture, little-known historian Francis La Flesche is the Rosetta Stone. Prior to La Flesche’s early twentieth-century field work, there were anthropologists and there were Indians. But there had never... Read More