The third installment of the Vera Kelly mystery series, Rosalie Knecht’s "Vera Kelly Lost and Found" hits close to home as Vera travels the length and breadth of Southern California, fighting to recover her girlfriend and their future... Read More

"Florilla" is a splendid, intelligent nineteenth-century romance that threads social ideas with botany and a memorable heroine. Healing and psychic powers drive a young woman’s destiny in Perdita Buchan’s beautiful historical... Read More

"Sparrow" is a dreamy fairy tale riff on the adage to be careful what you wish for. In Brian Kindall’s fantasy novel "Sparrow", a boy in a village that suffers from inertia wishes on a falling star. In this work of magical realism,... Read More

Art is the lens through which Teju Cole examines and makes sense of our shared humanity in the essay collection "Black Paper". Across six sections, Cole uses different art forms, including painting, photography, and literature, to... Read More

Charlie’s Christmas Adventure is a charming novel in which four young friends come to understand what it means to love others like Jesus did. In J. E. Solinski’s delightful novel Charlie’s Christmas Adventure, a spirited young... Read More

"Becoming a Democracy" makes a timely, informed case for correcting the US’s electoral system. Kristin Eberhard’s "Becoming a Democracy" is a thorough, impartial reference text for those who hope to foster democracy in the United... Read More

"Julian in Purgatory" portrays drug addiction in a breezy, entertaining style. Julian is living with his girlfriend, Dana. Instead of looking for a job, he spends his days in the thrall of pills. When Dana kicks him out, he visits... Read More

"The Savior of 6th Street" is Orlando Ortega-Medina’s lucid and engrossing new novel about a man who grows up in Los Angeles’s dark, 1980s underworld. Virgilio is twenty years old, an accomplished artist, and street smart. He lives... Read More