A wild heroine is at the center of this screwball, frenetic story. Kendal Taylor’s "Once Upon an Apple Martini" is a frenetic novel powered by copious amounts of alcohol and one woman’s desperation to hang onto her job. All Calyssa... Read More

It’s Not Like I Knew Her shares the important and oft-neglected history of lesbian bars in twentieth-century America. Pat Spears’s It’s Not Like I Knew Her is a vivid account of a young lesbian living in the deep South from the... Read More

This whirlwind of a novel sweeps through the intertwined lives of its many main characters with witty observations and scenes of bawdy depravity. It’s 1983, and the Yale graduate students in James Magruder’s "Love Slaves of Helen... Read More

Chaucer’s classic stories are given new life in this accessible translation. Just like the hems of skirts that rise and fall with the current fad, many books are loved in their time before quietly being put to rest on dusty shelves.... Read More

In this harrowing novel, a young woman survives incredible violence with her inner purity intact. Richard Roach’s "Never a Woman" is a story of intense violence and enduring love. Utilizing simple language to take on difficult topics,... Read More

Beautiful passages of this novel reflect the emotional impact of music upon young people’s dreams. David Clapham’s "The Special and the Ordinary" tells the story of two friends as their lives unfold from the 1950s to the present day,... Read More

This ambitious book full of politics, humor, and linguistics will fit nicely between copies of Walden and Catch-22. In Play on Words: A Grand Satire of Commercialization, Mike Harrison twists together a blueprint for a libertarian... Read More