Love, against all odds, emerges as the prevailing factor of a space colonization mission’s success in the satirical science fiction novel "Tripping Toward Mars". An international race to reach and colonize Mars is backdropped by... Read More

"Those We Carry" is a tragic, triumphant novel about wartime love. Perseverance despite a tragic past leads a budding hero into the horrors and humility of World War II, and eventually to love, in Scott Saxberg’s novel "Those We... Read More

The malaise of a small New England town in the 1960s is given an undercurrent of the infinite in Peter Selgin’s inspired novel A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space. Half is a junior high school student with a mentally ill stepbrother, a hat... Read More

An edifying, lesson-filled historical novel, "Olivia" focuses on a girl’s efforts to make her community an equitable one. Covering a decades-long path toward social equality, Alejandro Benavides’s inspired historical novel "Olivia"... Read More

Grounding its speculative elements in contemporary concerns, the technothriller "AWE" devotes focus to the myriad social and political hurdles that scientists face when it comes to persuading the world of their truths. Climate... Read More

"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only... Read More

A former governor’s persuasive call to urgent political reform, "The Reformer’s Dilemma" is a resonant memoir regardless of one’s political affiliation. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares’s ruminative memoir "The Reformer’s Dilemma"... Read More

Drawing on oral history, photographs, and letters, Darius and Catherine Brubeck revisit their inauguration of a fertile jazz music launchpad in South Africa during and after apartheid in "Playing the Changes". The book’s vibrant... Read More