Violence undoes a young couple’s love in Alan Govenar’s wrenching autobiographical novel "Come Round Right". When they meet during their freshman year at Ohio State, Adriana is a revelation to Boston-born Aaron. The daughter of a... Read More

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