"Helen" focuses on a woman whose street smarts and innate talents led her to a vital, off-screen California role. Anita Mishook’s "Helen" is an intriguing novel about a young Jewish woman who travels from New York to California seeking... Read More

This is imaginative work about a man’s quest for true connection. A sprawling, fantastical work about a man’s spiritual journey, "Celestial Mechanics" is the first novel by William Least Heat-Moon, who is well-known for his... Read More

"The Charm Buyers" is a thought-provoking insight into a time of cultural change. "The Charm Buyers", by Lillian Howan, is a novel about family drama and expectation, cultural assimilation, and the mystical sense of ancient ideas that... Read More

This isn’t a character trying to overcome his demons, but one fully in league with them. In "The Mask of Sanity", Jacob Appel delves into the mind of a murderer as he plots his version of the perfect crime. Upon learning that his wife... Read More

Full of jaggedly poetic charm and twisted humor, this is a fine novel about a caper gone wrong. Les Wood’s "Dark Side of the Moon" is the painfully funny tale of a jewel heist that never should have happened and a plan gone... Read More

"Suckle" is an ambitious look at the decisions made by a man struck with an extraordinary talent. An outlandish exploration of the ways loneliness, love, and loss manifest themselves in a seemingly ordinary man, "Suckle", by Benjamin... Read More

Mysterious goings-on permeate a small town in this chilling novel. A deadly car accident binds four citizens together in the quiet hamlet of Riptide, Oregon, and it seems also to have awakened something unseemly. Keith Rosson’s "The... Read More

This wise, moving ode to an era turns the pain of growing up with divorce into a hopeful journey. "Thirteen Shells" draws an impressionable Canadian girlhood from the late 1970s through the 1980s. Nadia Bozak reveals the erosion of a... Read More