"A Place No Flowers Grow" is a modern fairy tale in verse that’s shot through with menace. A young couple in love has their happiness threatened by mistakes from their past in "A Place No Flowers Grow", Cheryl Cantafio’s dark,... Read More

A loyal team is on a noble quest to stop a villain’s dark plans in the intriguing fantasy novel "Chalice of Echoes". Part of a continuing series, Steven W. Truelove’s involving fantasy novel "Chalice of Echoes" follows a group’s... Read More

A perceptive novel built on stark contrasts, "Indelicate Deception" is about the complications of parental love. A yearning girl investigates her parents’ broken relationship in V. S. Kemanis’s emotive novel "Indelicate Deception".... Read More

The urgent, prescient essays in Rebecca Solnit’s "No Straight Road Takes You There" name social inequities and ecological pains while insisting upon hope. Writing after the 2020 election, at a time when many on the left implored... Read More

A forensic anthropologist and her partner travel abroad in search of the truth behind a boy’s brutal murder in the feverish dystopian novel "Not Long Ago Persons Found". A seven-year-old boy’s torso is found in a city’s river with... Read More

A gorgeous exercise in open theology, Martha Park’s essay collection "World Without End" ponders climate change, social inequities, family, and religion. Though it has roots in her Christian upbringing, Park’s book treats faith less... Read More

In Hanna Park’s erotic fantasy novel "The Scald Crow", a disgraced woman flees to Ireland, where she discovers her connection to faeries and falls in love. After being fired from her broadcasting job, virginal Calla, an adopted... Read More

Lyrical and alarming, Elisa Levi’s fabulistic novella That’s All I Know unveils a small town’s ominous goings-on. Little Lea lives with her disabled sister and her mother in a minuscule town on the edge of a forest. The residents... Read More