Gooley’s playful and relaxed tone imparts as steady a pace as one might expect on a stroll through the woods. How rare to find a book that is truly brilliant. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, by Tristan Gooley, is brilliant in... Read More

Hareven’s brilliant writing is simply irresistible as she traces two sisters’ emotional journeys through recovering from a childhood trauma. In "Lies, First Person", by Gail Hareven (translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu), sisters... Read More

A spunky widow having psychic dreams leads the cast of realistic characters in this compelling debut. How does one mourn the past after discovering the gift of telling the future? Such is the strange dilemma facing fortysomething widow... Read More

Many accomplished, adventurous cooks live with an irksome blind spot in their culinary repertoire: Indian cooking. Likely, the Indophobes are perfectionist leaning and take issue with the subtle, intuitive, freewheeling nature of Indian... Read More

This gritty Christian dystopian novel is powerfully dark at times and hopeful at others. A grim and bloody end-of-the-world story is not the first place most readers would expect to find Christian inspiration, but that’s exactly what... Read More

Allred shows excellent insight into the psychological interactions of her characters in this gripping mystery of greed and redemption. Incidents connected to a woman’s traumatic youth threaten to destroy her marriage in Tara C.... Read More

A spiritual journey blends with an online romance in a story about letting go of the past and enjoying the present. Set against the backdrop of a smoldering love affair, "The Chronicles of Elizabeth Highland" fictionalizes a compelling... Read More

This multifaceted story offers thoughtful insight into classical music and historical research. A music professor inherits a recluse’s hauntingly original musical compositions in Michael DeStefano’s detailed first novel, The... Read More