The artful stories of Stacie Shannon Denetsosie’s unflinching collection "The Missing Morningstar" are set in the Navajo Nation, where people who struggle to overcome adversity often derive comfort from their community’s traditions.... Read More

While New York City prepares for a hurricane, the staff and patients of a headache clinic brace against a storm of their own making in Amy Grace Loyd’s novel "The Pain of Pleasure". A doctor unpacks the consequences of prescribing joy... Read More

In Shannon Morgan’s supernatural novel, a mother’s love is expressed through the language of flowers. Francine, who is unmarried by choice, lives in her haunted family manor surrounded by memories of her mother, who was an expert... Read More

In Robert Maynor’s engaging novel "The Big Game Is Every Night", a broken leg changes the life of a teenage boy in the rural American South, leaving him to navigate the everyday violence of his surroundings. A star running back on a... Read More

Henry wants to climb the plants and flowers in the garden with all the other snails, but Henry is different in one important way: he has no slime. Determined to find his own way to climb, Henry begins training; he drags pebbles, lifts... Read More

Satisfying and often joyful, these short stories concern family connections and childhood memories. Jeffrey M. Feingold’s endearing short story collection "The Black Hole Pastrami" compiles memories of growing up in a Jewish household... Read More

In the instructive picture book "The Crazy Untamable, Tamable Tongue", a sharp-tongued boy has his tempers tamed by a girl’s love. In Cynthia M. Warren’s picture book "The Crazy Untamable, Tamable Tongue", a boy learns about the... Read More

Edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, the essays of "Not Too Late" work to transform climate change-based concerns into activism. Noting that climate change is wreaking havoc via catastrophes around the globe, and that... Read More