Simultaneously heartwrenching and comical, Thomas Reed’s novel "Pocketful of Poseys" follows a family from the death of their matriarch to their journey to scatter her ashes. Cinny Posey, for all her upper-class panache, is an... Read More

A precocious teenager finds a makeshift family among strangers in BettyJoyce Nash’s perceptive, sensitive novel "Everybody Here Is Kin". On their way to a promised Key West trip, Lucille, her stepsiblings, and their mother, Naomi, stop... Read More

Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,... Read More

Curtis Smith’s lyrical novel "The Lost and the Blind" captures the plights of an addict’s son and a father serving a life sentence in prison. Mark is a disadvantaged teenager who seeks to rise above his hardscrabble upbringing in the... Read More

Two sisters form an unexpected bond in the formidable Adirondacks in the beautiful novel A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue. In Mary Carroll Moore’s novel A Woman’s Guide to Search and Rescue, estranged half-sisters reconnect and... Read More

"Alpha Bette" is an intriguing novel whose compelling cast members are invited to a surprising dinner party. Jennifer Manocherian’s captivating novel "Alpha Bette" concerns family, friendship, and unexpected human connections. Bette, a... Read More

In the encouraging chapter book "Dino Mike", onetime mortal enemies find common ground with one another, even when forming bonds seems impossible. In Jason Singleton’s chapter book "Dino Mike", carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs get... Read More

In the novel "The Cordillera", a complex would-be rancher faces dramatic events in international locations. In Luis Rousset’s novel "The Cordillera", a young man’s future is derailed when he’s offered a position as an international... Read More