In Daniel A. Olivas’s wry, entertaining novel inspired by the Mary Shelley classic, a “reanimated” man in near-future Los Angeles searches for love and identity while contending with bigotry and an uncertain past. Herein,... Read More

Cultures and generations clash in Maya Arad’s insightful novella collection "The Hebrew Teacher", which follows three storylines whose flows are sometimes concentric. Ilana is a Hebrew professor. She’s been at her school for “forty... Read More

A young victim of terrorism watches over those she left behind in Linda N. Masi’s novel "Fine Dreams". Kubra loved running, the color pink, and studying to become an educator like her mother. After she becomes collateral damage in a... Read More

Melissa Pritchard follows the troubled life of the celebrated yet complex Florence Nightingale in her enthralling novel "Flight of the Wild Swan". Florence Nightingale would never have been happy in the life her mother wanted for her: a... Read More

Shari Green’s elegant, gripping historical novel-in-verse "Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams" explores the complexities of life in Leipzig in the communist German Democratic Republic. In East Germany, right before the fall of the Berlin... Read More

A loyal group of translators find their allegiances tested when their author disappears in translator Jennifer Croft’s winking satirical novel "The Extinction of Irena Rey". The novel adopts a twisting conceit. It is the translated... Read More

"The Gatherer" is a romantic epic set in magical lands that stars a gifted, irresistible girl. In Kit Trzebunia’s fantasy novel "The Gatherer", a talented girl struggles to adjust to her new family situation amid outside political... Read More

Eloquent and alluring, "The States" is a novel in which dreams crash into lived realities. A woman undergoes a dream experiment and confronts her future choices in Norah Woodsey’s contemplative novel "The States". Tildy is an isolated... Read More