In West Camel’s "Attend", something mythic lingers just below the surface of Deptford, England, that will bind together three lives at loose ends. A recovering drug addict, middle-aged Anne has moved home to face her family, sobriety,... Read More

Familiar but full of adventures, The Wayfarer’s Journey is an attention-holding fantasy. In A. R. Pearson’s fantasy novel The Wayfarer’s Journey, a man works to protect his true love from the forces of evil. Jack’s life is... Read More

In Donna Grassby’s moving debut, Kate’s Ring, a thirteen-year-old girl tries to hold her family together through hardships and tragedy. Kate is the oldest of six siblings. Her mother suffers from tuberculosis; her father is loving,... Read More

Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails" is a panorama of the Old West overlaid by psychological theory. In Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails", two disaffected cowboys search for new lives in the post–Civil War West. LeRoy is an... Read More

An unusual mixture of biography, comedy, action, and analysis, "Explosions" takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to one of the most popular but artistically dismissed film directors working today. Mathieu Poulin positions Michael Bay as a... Read More

It is immensely satisfying to read about Jane Austen’s happiness, adventures, and intimacies in Collins Hemingway’s excellent series. It is 1807, and Jane Austen is learning to breastfeed. The Marriage of Jane Austen: Volume III... Read More

Brave in its admission of past mistakes, this dark memoir finds hope for second chances. Julius Dion Bailey’s coming-of-age memoir Be-Longing: Triumph in the Mirror is an exploration of what it means to be a black man in contemporary... Read More

"Road to Isabelle" is a swift and involving look at the vicious engagements of the First Indochina War. J. C. Bourg’s "Road to Isabelle" is a highly atmospheric account of the First Indochina War, as seen through the eyes of four... Read More