Jordanita travels to warm Argentina for Pesach, where she is delighted by her extended family’s pets, including their dogs, a cat, a tortoise, and two birds. At the Seder, the traditional Haggadah lessons unfold against a glowing... Read More
Concerned with the tension between belief and evidence, "Beneath the Verdant Veil" is an intriguing speculative novel. In Veronica Thorne’s thrilling science fiction novel "Beneath the Verdant Veil", a tropical basin’s unusual... Read More
“Writing Vessel was a beautiful way of feeling like I was drawing my father and my brother back into the world, remembering them and saying that, once, they were here. I loved weaving stories of who they had been into this lyric sense... Read More
My Name Is Samim / Fidan Meikle /
Kelpies /
Softcover $9.99 (296pp) /
978-1-78250-930-1 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Fidan Meikle’s empathetic novel My Name Is Samim, a young Afghani refugee faces numerous dangers in his... Read More
Poignant and ethereal, the fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a man’s quest for intergenerational understanding in the mysterious woods. With hints of magical realism, Asa Bowers’s fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a young man... Read More
An evocative historical novel, "The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer" vivifies the memories of a group of Catholic school alumni. Suffused with remembrances and yearnings, Richard Donze’s poignant and wry historical novel "The Secret Saint... Read More
Reviewer Mari Carlson Interviews Elizabeth Tucker, Author of The Pale Flesh of Wood / The tongue-in-cheek quip about what it takes to be a good writer, you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed, is of uncertain... Read More
A scientist faces down determined AI systems in the Arctic in the musing thriller "Nicholas". In Michael Shaffrey’s engaging techno-thriller "Nicholas", the collision of automated surveillance and human-scale problem-solving drags a... Read More