A powerful spotlight on the unseemly practices that pervade the American health-care industry, and a doctor’s loss of innocence. In the muckraking style of Upton Sinclair, Dr. Jim Bailey has written a modern-day The Jungle, but it’s... Read More

Raw prose evokes the animal nature of these inquisitive characters who fight for redemption across the globe. Ashley Mayne’s newest novel reads like a fevered dream as it trades between the accounts of a priest and a young man for whom... Read More

Memory, mental illness, and modern art are central themes in this clever literary puzzle. “There are so many ways to die, and even more ways to imagine it.” Carmiel Banasky’s first novel, "The Suicide of Claire Bishop", questions... Read More

As a literary novel of both suspense and emotion, this flashback-filled murder mystery has broad appeal. "The Last September", by Nina de Gramont, portrays an immediately gripping world of secrets, trauma, and conflicting loyalties.... Read More

An uncomplicated plot and even pacing allow the understated beauty of the language and deep-feeling characters to shine. "The Accidental Art Thief", by Joan Schweighardt, is the delightful story of a woman in her middle years forced to... Read More

Art and the role of the artist in society meet with African politics and exploitation in this meditation on action and consequences. An exploration of the human condition after and amidst tragedy, "Benchere in Wonderland" follows artist... Read More

Through the narrator’s oral history, this novel examines the forces that cause a young sharecropper to take his own life. "Drought", a novel by Ronald Fraser, revolves around the suicide of a young sharecropper living in rural Spain... Read More

Set some time in an undisclosed future, "The Norma Gene" embraces the possibilities, both grave and absurd, of human cloning and all its potential consequences and complications. History, biology, genetics, and the curious twists of fate... Read More