Emma, a middle sibling whose summer vacation takes a turn when she’s in too much of a hurry to stand out, learns to relish her own age in Laura Wiltse Prior’s breezy chapter book "Emma Just Medium". Emma has just finished the first... Read More

In Amalie Jahn’s heartfelt novel "A Walk between Raindrops", estranged sisters attempt to mend their relationship while on a tour of American theme parks. Elise and her younger, pretty, popular sister Wylla haven’t spoken to each... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death... Read More

In Robert Maynor’s engaging novel "The Big Game Is Every Night", a broken leg changes the life of a teenage boy in the rural American South, leaving him to navigate the everyday violence of his surroundings. A star running back on a... Read More

"Those We Leave Behind" is a moving novel in which a grieving family pursues healing, love, and joy. In John Scott Winters’s poignant novel "Those We Leave Behind", a farmer and his children try to find meaning in their lives after a... Read More

Trauma and social attitudes transform people’s worldviews in the startling thriller "The Rising Order". In Claire Isenthal’s thriller "The Rising Order", a brainwashed terrorist uses an innocent woman to wreak havoc. Wolf is part of... Read More

In the haunting dystopian novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is forced to reckon with deep economic inequality. In Kimberly R. Hill’s future-set novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is adopted by people from her father’s... Read More

The direct, poignant short stories collected in "Scar Songs" tap into universal feelings of loss and regret. In W. Royce Adams’s short story collection "Scar Songs", people cope with loss and their past mistakes as best they can. In... Read More