“The world you know is a lie … The world that’s coming, that’s the one you should believe in.” So says a Dragon Knight who serves the Sire, a dragon-turned-human who’s targeting the Blazewrath World Cup. But this year,... Read More

"The Magdalene Deception" is an impassioned thriller that’s directed by Church mysteries, featuring a crystalline portrait of persistence. In Gary McAvoy’s steady, Vatican-set thriller, "The Magdalene Deception", an attractive duo... Read More

"How to Become Extremely Wealthy" is an upbeat self-help guide that suggests methods of gaining financial mastery. James J. Elleyby’s "How to Become Extremely Wealthy" is an exuberant guide to adopting a wealth-centered mindset. These... Read More

“A patchwork story is the shame of a refugee,” says twelve-year-old Daniel, an Iranian refugee in Oklahoma with his sister, mother, and stepfather. The tale of what brought him to the buckle of the Bible Belt, to Tornado Alley and... Read More

"Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts" relocates a classic fairy tale into an imagined future packed with airships, automated carriages, vampires, and corsets. Although nominally a Cinderella story, this novel remixes that tale’s familiar... Read More

Kendra Atleework’s radiant, wrenching memoir "Miracle Country" probes a home and its heartbreaks for meaning. Atleework was raised in the Eastern Sierra, in spaces threatened by fire and droughts: “on this obsidian edge of... Read More

A nineteenth-century entomologist is caught between social expectations and desire in Kimberly Duffy’s "A Mosaic of Wings", a novel about wanderlust and women’s empowerment. In Ithaca, Nora is her class’s valedictorian. She longs... Read More

Maryse Condé’s "The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana" is a gripping story in which a twin brother and sister grow up in the turbulent atmosphere of Guadeloupe. Exploring extremism, corruption, desire, immigration, poverty,... Read More