Three generations of restless, ambitious women mull big questions in the musing novel "Beyond a Thousand Words". In Michael Rose’s novel "Beyond a Thousand Words", three generations of women balance ambition and love. Coty is a... Read More

A wounded man ingratiates himself to a community on the edge in the mythical novel "Life at the Precipice". In R. F. Vincent’s humane novel "Life at the Precipice", a navigator investigates a decimated Canadian hamlet. On the heels of... Read More

While New York City prepares for a hurricane, the staff and patients of a headache clinic brace against a storm of their own making in Amy Grace Loyd’s novel "The Pain of Pleasure". A doctor unpacks the consequences of prescribing joy... Read More

In the historical novel Arlen’s Gun, a traumatized gunner soldiers through a taxing war. In Edgar Doleman’s historical novel Arlen’s Gun, a second-choice air force gunner defends an impromptu fort in Vietnam. Arlen is a... Read More

In the memoir-in-essays "Of Dirt and Wildflowers", natural, tactile items are used to reflect on the idea that all people, plants, and cherished possessions have stories to tell. Kylee J. Marshall’s reflective memoir "Of Dirt and... Read More

In the haunting dystopian novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is forced to reckon with deep economic inequality. In Kimberly R. Hill’s future-set novel "The Faction", a pandemic survivor is adopted by people from her father’s... Read More

In Burhan Sönmez’s literary novel "Stone and Shadow", an Istanbul cemetery is the site of loves lost, recast, and reunited. In the 1930s, a traveling flutist introduces an orphaned street musician, Avdo, to a gravestone carver. Avdo... Read More

An unwitting couple becomes privy to others’ covert plans for their matrimony in the pert allegorical novel "A Moment of Life". In Pavel Mahdjik’s allegorical novel "A Moment of Life", newlyweds get to know each other as they learn... Read More