A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

In Mary G. Thompson’s empathetic novel "One Level Down", a woman forced into a child’s body fights to escape her father’s simulation. Escaping Earth’s overcrowding and irreparable environmental damage, colonists encounter disease... Read More

Capturing the imagination with a welcome dark tone, "Animal Husbandry" is a satisfying short story collection. The short stories in Jeff Fleischer’s collection "Animal Husbandry" range from fun and bizarre to thought-provoking and... Read More

Ideas about technology, chaos, and political violence are made tangible in the thriller "O Jerusalem". In R. P. Hanna’s provocative thriller "O Jerusalem", fanaticism wears many guises. In an alternate post-9/11 world, some are opposed... Read More

In Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s novel "Forgetting", an insomniac grapples with the past and the future of a world perhaps beyond saving. Alma’s grandfather did not die in a concentration camp, but sometimes she says he did. And... Read More

"Lost Seeds" is a piquing novel that addresses various facets of historical racism. In Teresa Mosley Sebastian’s gripping historical novel "Lost Seeds", two brothers choose different paths to move beyond their family’s tragic legacy... Read More

The poetry collection "Carrying Stones into the Colorful Unknown" muses through the paradoxes of human existence and considers the monotony of everyday life. In M. E. Kamrass’s paradoxical poetry collection "Carrying Stones into the... Read More

The searching novel "Out of Wedlock" is about people’s overlapping and conflicting allegiances and committed relationships. A man discovers his true identity with the help of friends and lovers in Larry Lockridge’s novel "Out of... Read More