The heroes of "Dragonspawn Vengeance" travel through time and space to defeat a dark magician before the end of the world. In Thomas Rottinghaus’s fantasy novel "Dragonspawn Vengeance", a pair of gun-toting warriors race to save their... Read More

In W. B. Garvey’s expressive novel "Independence Blues", a boy and his parents travel through southern America in the 196Os, encountering racism and exclusion on repeat. Madeline and Emerson are Jamaican immigrants; their son was born... Read More

"Why They Stay" includes entertaining fodder for better understanding what bargains highly successful women make in order to endure in scandal-plagued marriages. Knowing that is hard to understand why so many strong, smart, accomplished... Read More

"The Dark Side of Memory" is a violent yet elegiac portrayal of the tragic Cold War disappearances of Uruguayan citizens. Tessa Bridal’s historical book "The Dark Side of Memory" traces the intertwined lives of mothers, grandmothers,... Read More

Saundra Henderson Windom brings wisdom to bear in her heartfelt, reflective memoir "Orchestration". Windom was born in Korea during the war—one of the many mixed race children fathered by US soldiers with comfort women. She was also... Read More

Lyndsey Ellis’s thoughtful multigenerational novel "Bone Broth" is set during the days of the Ferguson protests. Justine and Wesley moved to the suburbs to escape the traps set for residents of the Pruitt-Igoe projects. But decades... Read More

In John Peragine’s boisterous middle grade fantasy, a boy undertakes an odyssey to reunite with his family. Thirteen-year-old Max’s father is missing, and his mother has just been abducted, so he joins Captain Cinn and his pirate... Read More

"Legends of the Dragonfly" is an uncensored, exciting soldier’s biography that’s centered in a period of Malayan conflict. Vincent Hancock’s gripping biography of his father, Rex, "Legends of the Dragonfly", concentrates on Rex’s... Read More