Stuffed with details, brimming with weird and quirky characters, "Ghosted" is a heartstopping novel of heroic proportions. Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall takes tre-mendous risks, and the reader reaps the rewards. "Ghosted" is the story of... Read More

“My disgust had a smell: the smell from the hospital, from the apartment—the telltale odor of death. My heart raced. I could feel them behind me: a thirsty pack, their hunger, a thick tongue of horror, snatching at my back, creeping... Read More

The novelist Eudora Welty said, “Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.” That could easily be the epigraph for Jean Grant’s finely crafted new novel "The Burning Veil". The story of an American... Read More

The reformer George William Curtis said, “It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” The same could be said of James Wassick’s new novel, "Notorious". This is a fast-paced read,... Read More

During her months in a Gestapo prison in 1936, the young labor activist Gisa Peiper follows a thread of poetry, trying to steady herself: “Remember this also when you grow old. / Remember there is art, there is poetry. / Remember a... Read More

The writer Henry Miller said, “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” By seeking out new experiences, new perspectives and new places, the traveler discovers a new self. The latest from... Read More

White flight; the Black Panthers; the golden age of NBA basketball; Oakland’s Free Huey rallies; integration: all of these giants come together in Phillip Wilhite’s debut novel. Set in a boarding school—a playground for America’s... Read More

The poet Alexander Pope famously said, “Woman’s at best a contradiction still.” He might have been describing the heroine of Marilee Worrell’s novel, Kenzie. At age forty-two, Kenzie St. Clair is unkissed, a virgin, and... Read More