The stories within "Memory Plays" are about how people reconcile truth and memory through romances, grief, the creative process, and even miracles. In Stephen Evans’s distinctive short story collection "Memory Plays", four sets of... Read More

The global slave trade backgrounds Solange Burrell’s fantastical coming-of-age novel "Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace", about what it truly means to act in favor of the greater good. In eighteenth-century West Africa, sixteen-year-old... Read More

In the musing novel "Shadows on the Moon", a veteran searches for his place in the world after surviving the personal and collective trauma of war. Peter Freeman Vantu’s spiritual novel "Shadows on the Moon" seeks to understand the... Read More

A community remakes itself to fit a vision of freedom in the sympathetic Revolutionary War–era novel "Chains of Fate". The very notion of freedom—both of the soul and of the body—hangs in the balance in "Chains of Fate", Melissa... Read More

A story about coming to terms with a family’s complex genealogy, "The Silent Tree" is a poetic intergenerational memoir. The distant past and the present collide in "The Silent Tree", Carol Slayden Arnold’s history-based memoir,... Read More