This dramatic New Orleans story plays on themes of loss and love. William H. Coles’s unpredictable novel The Surgeon’s Wife focuses on the romantic relationships and family dynamics of two surgeons. Mike Boudreaux is a surgeon living... Read More

San Diego journalist Tershia d’Elgin became keenly aware of her family’s water footprint on her father Bill’s Colorado farm. William Eaton Phelps had to grow up quickly: his parents left him in Denver while his father was stationed... Read More

This novel is a masterful portrait of individuals who find solace where they can, and who endure through personal disillusionment. Ludmila Ulitskaya’s "The Kukotsky Enigma" is a generational saga and a defiant exploration of memory,... Read More

The undertone of a wordless answer to loneliness and doubt runs beneath its lines of elegantly crafted prose. "The Universe Playing Strings", by R. M. Kinder, is a tapestry of middle America threaded with music, as souls drift into each... Read More

Kim Ekemar creates an intriguing, complex mystery with brisk pacing and a skillful unraveling of clues. Kim Ekemar’s engaging murder mystery, "The Patricide", brings a troubled French family together for its patriarch’s seventy-fifth... Read More