Megan Howell’s "Softie" is a series of thirteen short stories which plumb the harrowing struggles and dark corners of womanhood and girlhood as “all hell breaks loose” with regularity. Firm and unflinching, the stories navigate... Read More

A sharp and curious doctor in training is just the right tour guide through the labyrinthine murder mystery novel "Malignant Assumptions". Carrie Rubin’s series mystery novel "Malignant Assumptions" is an entertaining whodunit with an... Read More

A faithless boy encounters Jesus and opens himself up to new ways of being with others in the heartwarming religious novel "The Young Samaritan". In J. Schuyler Sprowles’s historical novel "The Young Samaritan", a boy who’s forced to... Read More

A retired English teacher learns to hope and love again while he helps his daughter face a devastating illness in "Outer Sunset", Mark Ernest Pothier’s graceful, wise, and tender novel. Jim retired early from teaching; he seems to have... Read More

In J. D. Grolic’s charming fantasy novel "The Extraordinary Curiosities of Ixworth and Maddox", an eleven-year-old ducks into a London shop to escape the rain and encounters an intriguing new world. After entering the shop, wherein... Read More

Kaity’s Catch is a promising series opener with strong viewpoints about the invigorating power of women’s support and friendship. An insecure Midwestern divorcée renews her confidence through dance—and meets a photographer—in J.... Read More