Luke Dani Blue’s powerful short story collection Pretend It’s My Body chronicles the aftermath of questionable decisions. A tornado picks up a young girl; when she wakes on the ground, she begins to see pictures that she believes are... Read More

In Katie Keridan’s exciting and complex fantasy novel "Reign Returned", two strangers from quite different worlds join together and discover commonalities. Kyra is a healer and an Astral, a member of the golden-blooded realm. She... Read More

In Murray Lee’s engrossing novel Compass, a travel writer with an encyclopedic knowledge of previous polar expeditions sets out on his own trip to the Arctic. Guy narrates, mixing dark comedy into his tale with high dramatic stakes.... Read More

In "Loving the Dead and Gone", Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s multivoiced novel, the death of a young man provokes women in a rural North Carolina town to revisit their unmet longings. Clayton is puzzled by his wife Berta Mae’s contentions... Read More

In Mary Wimmer’s atmospheric novel "The Art of the Break", a woman inherits her father’s cheese-making business. In mid-1970s Milwaukee, Charlie is having increasing marital problems with Rick, her Vietnam veteran husband. An... Read More

The first full-length novel in the expansive Birdverse series, "The Unbalancing" is an LGBTQ+ fantasy overflowing with heart—and heartache. Long ago, twelve stars dropped from the tail of the goddess Bird. They were caught by twelve... Read More

"Soul of a Professor" is an inspiring memoir about a lengthy search for a higher calling. Lisa A. Pruitt’s calibrated memoir "Soul of a Professor" concerns how work once undermined her sense of self-worth. Pruitt grew up in New England... Read More

A record of discoveries that mirror the paradoxes of a changing, surviving Mexican culture abroad, this memoir exemplifies the complexity of immigrant identities. Yvonne Martinez’s accomplished memoir-in-essays blends memories with... Read More