In the short stories of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s collection "So Many People, Mariana", people search in vain for contentment and belonging. With all the human beings in the world, it should be impossible to ever feel isolated or... Read More

Lori Benton’s wrenching second novel in the Kindred series probes the wounds of the US’s racist past to prove that love and God conquer all. Seona is a former slave who lives in Boston with her son, Gabriel. Gabriel’s father, Ian,... Read More

"Teacher Unions and Social Justice" is a timely text about facilitating progressive education. Edited by Michael Charney, Jesse Hagopian, and Bob Peterson, "Teacher Unions and Social Justice" is a collection of essays about the... Read More

Elizabeth Chatsworth’s steampunk romance "The Brass Queen" is as vibrant as an electrified carousel. Constance Haltwhistle can handle knife-wielding assassins, airship turret guns, mechanical warhorses, and gentleman scientists, but... Read More

"Losing the Atmosphere" is a heartbreaking account of life with a rare psychological disorder, and of the events that broke a budding mind to pieces. Vivian Conan’s compelling memoir "Losing the Atmosphere" concerns dissociative... Read More

Two men bond over sex, violence, and shared emotional and psychological trauma in Orlando Ortega-Medina’s neo noir "The Death of Baseball", about identity, sexuality, and nihilism in 1980s Los Angeles. The novel is a study of... Read More

Within The Seven Malas are an imaginative handful of affairs and one glowing true-love story. John Leslie Lange’s novel The Seven Malas is part midlife makeover, part male fantasy, and part earnest quest. Thirtysomething James Wilder... Read More

Twisted humor provokes, while dense, finely tuned writing dazzles. "Island of Point Nemo" is a serpentine mystery by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès. The story of a stolen diamond, murder, and an e-reader factory run by a Chinese voyeur takes... Read More