Starting your first job out of college is tough, as Peter Yawitz knows. Helping young people to navigate their new worlds of employment with plenty of humor, Flip-Flops & Microwaved Fish is written with the wise but sarcastic tone of... Read More

In Peter Stamm’s philosophical novel "The Sweet Indifference of the World", writers and actors who’re struggling to make art become a means of exploring both identity and reality. Christoph is a writer who sends Lena, a young... Read More

The dead do not want to stay buried in Sheila Connolly’s ninth installment of her County Cork series, Fatal Roots. Maura Donovan, who moved from Boston to take over her family’s pub in Ireland, is getting used to rural Irish living... Read More

Continuing her inventive reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer blends magic, romance, and the growing specter of war in "A Heart So Fierce and Broken". With the curse broken and the enchantress Lilith defeated, Prince Rhen... Read More

Built on the premise that today’s world is unhealthy, Pilar Gerasimo’s "The Healthy Deviant" is a self-help corrective. Arguing that society has normalized problems like a lack of sleep, unhealthy eating, overworking, and... Read More

Featuring more than a hundred entries spanning every continent and thousands of years, Heart of a Stranger is a varied, compelling, and expansive view of the universal experience of exile. This anthology includes recognized accounts of... Read More

The judicial system’s bias against minorities has deep roots, acknowledges Garrett Felber in Those Who Know Don’t Say, which argues that the penal, or carceral, state expanded due to “dialects of discipline.” It shows that police... Read More

An evocative novel set in 1969’s counterculture, Cassandra’s Eye focuses on the almost-grown daughter of intransigent bohemian parents. In Portland, Maine, Shanti is caught between her parents’ heedless lifestyle, her desire to... Read More