Ella's Voice by Charlotte Woodland is a mix of fantasy, magical realism, and deep ideas about life. It follows Ella Maxwell, a young woman who wakes up from a coma with a strange guide in her head called Voice and a new gift—she can diagnose...

In Eight Minutes by Gregory N. Whitis, after learning the fate awaiting Earth, Dr. Bassar commits suicide. His assistant, Dr. Tate, is at home with his family when this happens. The president sends a team led by Jupp, who has numerous secrets surrounding him, to...

Expectation of Pain by Juliet Rose is a dystopian novel that transports readers to a bleak, unsettling future where societal norms have dramatically shifted. The story unfolds on a desolate island, a grim setting that redefines the concept of survival and humanity. The protagonist, Ishi,...

Jack was a respected emerald dealer before venturing to Africa, where he lost everything and had to start afresh. His hopes are on his friend Itzhak, who is an emerald dealer in Brazil. Itzhak had immigrated to Brazil from Vienna in the thirties after things...

Eat and Get Gas by J.A. Wright is a coming-of-age story. Evan Hanson is 13 and feels like she never knows what’s going on. Her father is often absent, and when her brother is drafted, her mother, totally anti-war, takes him to Canada – she...

When asked his name, the frightened young boy who has just shot his mama replies: “Earl, honey.” The officer sniggers, except the response isn’t funny. Nor is Earl being sassy. He is simply slow after being brain-damaged by his abusive father years before. It’s episodes...

Emilie by Ingrid Ramsdale takes us back to sixteenth-century France and a time of great change in French society as the predominantly Roman Catholic religion is being challenged by the rise of a new way of worshipping; the teachings of John Calvin and his Protestant...

The question of whether the horrors of the Holocaust are over for the next generation is a pressing and haunting theme in Ruth Rotkowitz’s Escaping the Whale. Set in 1980, Brooklyn, this is the story of 28-year-old Marcia Gold, a high school guidance counselor who...

Samantha Henthorn has covered a lot of ground in the third book of the Curmudgeon Avenue series, Edna and Genevieve Escape From Curmudgeon Avenue. Edna, who did not appear a lot in the second book, has made an impressive comeback in the third part of...

Everywhere She’s Not is a novel penned by author N. John Shore Jr. which focuses on self-destructive behavior, failed relationships and human nature. In this powerfully compelling introspective look at life, we meet our central hero (or anti-hero), David. Though brilliant in some ways, his...