This sexually charged cautionary tale deftly uses interior monologue and psychological tension. Nelly Arcan writes with keen insight into the lives of young adults in contemporary Montreal. "Breakneck" chronicles the jaded lives of two... Read More

A strange, violent land at the far edge of the Roman empire sets the stage for this essentially human war tale. In "War at the Edge of the World", the first book of a planned series entitled Twilight of Empire, Ian James Ross offers a... Read More

Sixth-century Ireland finds Christians and Druids wary of each other, especially when bodies start piling up in the bogs. Philip Freeman, a professor of classics at Luther College and author of several nonfiction books on classical-era... Read More

An intelligent, fact-paced historical novel moves up the formation of Israel by ten years and reimagines Jewish-Nazi diplomacy during WWII. Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner and journalist Matt Rees join forces in a gripping political... Read More

Anchored by the 1971 World Series, questions of mortality, heroism, and infidelity help this outstanding novel transcend the sports genre. There are many baseball novels that are not really about baseball, and Philip Beard’s "Swing" is... Read More

Caulfield-like cynicism and insight drive this boarding-school boy to embark on a hitchhiking adventure across 1961 America. “Although this story is inspired by actual events … this story is a lie that tells the truth,” David Beck,... Read More

Convincingly utilizing modern Christianity to reveal how humans must show compassion to the environment—Pope Francis would approve. Norman Wirzba’s "From Nature to Creation" is an eloquent theological exercise that contributes... Read More

Exactly fourteen lines, each of five-foot iambics—ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM—such is life for a sonnet, and Rebecca Foust strings more than eighty together in this biting, rhythmically haunting collection. Foust’s poems... Read More