An aging, celebrated puppeteer throws his daughters’ lives into chaos in Heather Newton’s gripping new novel. Walter—a talented puppeteer and a reluctant children’s entertainer who achieved global prominence in the latter... Read More

"Ivy Lodge" is a resonant memoir that looks beyond the “opulent facade” of a mid-century family’s stately home. Built in the 1800s, Linda Murphy Marshall’s childhood home bore the distinguished name “Ivy Lodge.” In 1960,... Read More

One mistake shakes the foundations of a family in Eve Smith’s domestic thriller "Off Target". In a society where IVF is the norm, Susan and her husband have been trying to conceive the old-fashioned way for years. Susan’s husband... Read More

The end of the world arrives with bombs and a mysterious green fog in P. C. Cast’s supernatural novel Into the Mist. Mercury, Stella, Imani, and Karen wrap up a teacher’s conference at a mountain resort in Oregon. Taking a travel... Read More

Taki Soma’s graphic memoir "Sleeping While Standing" strings together short, powerful episodes to forge a cohesive, affecting whole. Soma recounts some challenging personal experiences in brief; they serve as snapshots of her life thus... Read More

A night market food stall owner becomes involved in a double homicide in Ed Lin’s novel Death Doesn’t Forget. Jing-nan just wants his food stall to be successful. If he could stop finding himself connected to homicide investigations,... Read More

The Devil’s Highway combines Joan Myers’s photographs with a gritty short story by William deBuys to evoke the sweeping, inhospitable open road. Constructed in 1926, US Route 191, formerly known as Route 666 and nicknamed “The... Read More

In "The Continuing Storm", Kai Erikson and Lori Peek discuss the short- and long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on its most vulnerable victims. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, it inflicted devastating... Read More