After spending the greater part of his day contending with a broken toilet, Fares Khalil is certain his day cannot get worse. He immediately has to take that back when a mysterious meteor strikes New York City, and an unusual creature decides to empty its...

Hop Fight by S. Pluck, P. MacCruiskeen, and F. T. Marquardt is an outlandish, absurdist fiction guide masquerading as an official sports rulebook. The authors detail a high-contact, equipment-free sport in which opponents must stand on a single chosen foot and use brute force to...

Homes by Hayden Thompson follows Dr. George Harrington over more than two decades as an epidemiologist who leaves his comfortable life in France for public health assignments across Asia. Being a single father means George has to balance demanding fieldwork with raising his twelve-year-old son,...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

Anne Shaw Heinrich's House of Teeth is set in the small town of Poulson, where the ending of one marriage begins pulling several families into the same orbit. Judy Saunders spends years trapped in a bitter relationship with truck driver John, while he quietly builds...

Kira McCloud sells herself as a brilliant and successful decluttering guru with her “sunshine test” in Jenny Hogan's How to Clean Your Life with Sunshine, but her personal life and spaces are far from organized. On her plate are an unfinished book deal, a threatening...

In Ali Hamdoun’s Habracadabrah, after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Shinobu stays alive way beyond his expected lifespan. This is in the care of Seiren, who moves him to an isolated forest home where his damaged body requires constant treatment so he can keep...

Happisad Memories by M. P. B. Clairette is the story of a woman whose life falls apart after she loses her baby to stillbirth. She goes back home carrying a kind of grief that nobody around her really understands. People say the wrong things, some...

Rick Lenz's Hello, Rest of My Life is the story of a man who suddenly finds himself traveling 47 years into the past. Daniel "Danny" Maytree has lived a life full of contradictions. However, things get even more complicated after he unexpectedly wakes up in...

Hemlock Reefs by Darice Fetcher opens in a future where the Earth’s surface has been destroyed by war, climate collapse, and human ambition. Humanity now lives far below the ocean, protected by vast living walls known as the Hemlock Reefs. These reefs permit only approved...