"Island Home" is a lyrical and artistic look into the human relationship to landscape, especially in Australia. Part memoir, part ode, it combines a strong sense of place with a reflection on the personal impact of land, and of what... Read More

Twelve-year-old Thomas Adkins Johnson finds his world changed forever when he goes on a sixth grade field trip to a local planetarium. Expanding and contracting, the field trip marks his transition into a new adulthood full of issues... Read More

Intensely cerebral, alive to every facet of his life’s pleasures, convictions, and ironies, Philip Terman has authored eight collections of poetry and chapbooks, and earned the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, the Sow’s Ear Prize, and... Read More

Kravitz’s canine narrator describes the events around him without understanding their full impact, offering a new perspective on the Holocaust. With "The Jewish Dog", Asher Kravitz succeeds in the difficult task of finding a new... Read More

In Stan Schatt’s "Silent Partner", a tabloid reporter into S&M and his lover of the week are found dead in a motel room, and Detective Frankie Ryan is back on duty just in time to get the case. As a woman in a male-dominated... Read More

Larranaga has crafted a quality book with believable characters, even if some of them are vampires. "Blood Orange Soda", by James Michael Larranaga, is a coming-of-age young adult novel about a teenage vampire in the American Midwest.... Read More

Giving the health care system a thorough checkup, James T. Hansen diagnoses modern medicine with a critical loss of human connection, leading to poor outcomes for patients and physicians alike. In his memoir, Reinvent the Heal: A... Read More

It is 2034, and fighting factions struggle to gain control of dwindling fuel supplies in Dark Dawning: The Oil is Running Out, Auguste Dinoto’s debut novel. Catastrophic earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea take out much of the... Read More