An action-packed, heartfelt coming-of-age story, Lee Sanders’s novel "Under the Light of Fireflies" is set during an eventful summer. In the summer of 1981, twelve-year-old Noah expects his biggest concerns to be Little League, his... Read More

Time travelers wrestle with interfering in history in the thoughtful romance novel "The Titanic Test". In Ann K. Simpson’s romance novel "The Titanic Test", a time-traveling teenager attempts to change the course of history. Charlie is... Read More

"Malcolm Before X" focuses on the early years of Malcolm X’s life and the experiences that shaped the man he became. Though its biographical portions cover only the first twenty-seven years of Malcolm’s life, the book spans decades,... Read More

The memoir-cum-novel "Letters to Evelyn" mixes personal anecdotes into its imaginative universe of love, aliens, and space travel. Combining memoir and fantasy elements, John Selman’s book "Letters to Evelyn" recounts the past... Read More

"Girl, Uncoded" is a woman’s powerful memoir about navigating a relationship with a dangerous man. With names changed to protect its subjects, Brandi Dredge’s memoir "Girl, Uncoded" is about her struggle to extricate herself from a... Read More

A mix of memoir with literary criticism, Lawrence Wells’s "Ghostwriter" dives into the Shakespeare authorship debate from the perspective of a skeptic working alongside a staunch believer. Wells was approached to ghostwrite a book for... Read More

Christine M. Larson’s "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing" uses the romance writing realm as a case study for how informal labor networks and mutual aid improve conditions for isolated workers. Guided by a survey of thousands of... Read More

In Zalika Reid-Benta’s fantasy novel "River Mumma", a woman without a sense of direction reconnects to her heritage while on a quest. Alicia thought that, when she finished graduate school in New York, an opportunity in publishing... Read More