Kellie Wells seems never to have met a sentence she couldn’t enhance, a list she couldn’t extend, or a story she couldn’t send airborne. The fifteen contemporary fables of underdogs, oddballs, and misanthropes in Kellie Wells’s... Read More

The stories in this collection are funny, often poignant, and not easily forgotten. The thirteen coming-of-age stories in Scott Gould’s terrific collection, "Strangers to Temptation", share a common narrator remembering his teenage... Read More

This work on health and healing from a mind-body-spirit perspective is insightful and practical. In "Change the Story of Your Health", clinical psychologist Carl Greer explains how to create a transformative health story using shamanic... Read More

These are thought-provoking meditations on family, immigration, and the American dream. In "Immigration Essays", Sybil Baker provides a provocative, open-hearted investigation into the ways that people leave home, and the reasons why.... Read More

The focus on Irish themes proves the adage that the local is the universal. These are stories that concern us all. "All Over Ireland" features fourteen short stories by contemporary Irish writers, stories in which emigration is a... Read More

These stories are a literary ode to climbers and the mountains that captivate them. The seven quirky stories in Gisèle Villeneuve’s new collection, "Rising Abruptly", all have mountains at their heart. Beginning when a young woman... Read More

Things of Absolute Importance is an amusing work from a provocative author determined to challenge his audience. This is not a self-help book. The author, Haim Shapira, makes that clear from the beginning. Instead,"Happiness and Other... Read More

Adrenalin-laced and with a strong sense of the absurd, this small-town Canadian novel explores situations both dark and amoral. Andrew F. Sullivan’s "Waste" takes place in a small Canadian town over a December weekend in 1989.... Read More