You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel by Douglas Robinson is a reimagining of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that moves between stage script, campus novel, and literary commentary. The book begins with a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, presented as a college production that immediately foregrounds...

Poison Pill by Anthony Lee is a shocking medical thriller. Dr. Mark Lin hates anything that harms, but he's about to face two of his biggest nemeses: bad herbal supplements and greedy drug companies. A herbal supplement causes a young man's kidneys to fail. Another...

Mr. Gobscheit: It's All Gobscheit by Avery Mann follows Mark Jamison, who expects his retirement in Angel Landing to be permanent until an urgent request sends him to Dublin on a covert naval assignment. He is placed inside the Irish Defense Ministry to observe suspected...

Elco Parks by Sandro Laudadio is one of the most unusual stories I have read in a while, and it resonates with its themes and atmosphere. The setting is Vancouver in 2008, where a new religion has taken hold in the belief that glacial striations...

The Last Saboteur by Martin Roy Hill is a World War II spy thriller that offers readers a daring Nazi plot to sabotage the Manhattan Project by assassinating its director, J. Robert Oppenheimer. The story follows Carrick, an Irishman turned German spy, who infiltrates the...

Book One in the Kaelandur Series, When Blood Falls, sets the stage for a series set in a time and place "where the gods were gods without question, and men were men without example. Where myths of old were realized and legends born." Set in...

“This was the pattern—hope, creation, corruption, destruction. Always the same ending.” Painful failure and seven frightful creatures torment an aged Creator in The Lord's Canvas by Stephen Wayne. The story unfolds in an endless void, where nothing exists save a canvas of creation waiting to...

Oscar Wilde once said, “To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” The title character in Lisa Doyle is Absolutely Fine by Mo Fanning finds herself constantly struggling just to be herself. She lives a quiet life in Manchester, which is...

Under Two Flags by Janis Robinson Daly is a historical novel set during World War I, inspired by the real experiences of Josephine Therese Marzynski, a young American woman drawn to music and possibility. In 1916, Josephine leaves Boston for Berlin to study opera at...

Sailing Against the Tide by Cindy Burkart Maynard follows Jeanne Baret from rural Burgundy in the 1740s into the expanding world of French science and exploration during the 1760s. After her father’s death forces her off the land, Jeanne relies on her botanical knowledge to...