There Will Be Other Summers by Tegan Anderson is a hauntingly beautiful LGBTQ novel about courage and accepting oneself despite what others say. When Asher and Ryn meet in group therapy, they both feel a shift within themselves. Ryn can’t see her, but he can...

The Color of Our Names by Mahitab Mahmoud follows the lives of four characters trying to navigate identity, faith, and secrecy between Egypt and the United States. Fareed, a 34-year-old man still living with his conservative family in Alexandria, finds fragile moments of freedom at...

Twine is a murder mystery novel by Joshua Senter. Farnas Elsemore thought he had everything figured out in his life. Owner of The Hudson County Courier newspaper in the rural town of Success, Missouri, Farnas had learnt to navigate the casual homophobia directed against him...

Paolo G. Grossi’s The Kaminsky Symphony is a riveting and compelling novel that begins in 1913, in Italy, and continues through the political upheavals in Russia in 1917, and briefly through WWI. The principal character is Maestro Carlo Alberto Mandelli, Count of Castagnino, Milan. In...

When King Madrick I and Queen Fionella of Masor decided to walk into the woods to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary, they had no idea it would be their last. The news of their demise, a few weeks later, leaves their kin—Prince Madrick II and...

The Sacred Band of Thebes by Glenn Rabney and Bart Baker is a colorful, action-packed graphic novel that highlights an elite group of Theban soldiers formed around the 4th century BCE. The concept was first introduced by Plato, who suggested that soldiers who were also...

In The Artist Instance by Faruk Brbovic, during the winters, Anela Foster paints impossible patterns—doorways that threaten reality’s fabric, capturing loops with precision from angles that are hard to attain. She is under the illusion that she is painting a nightmare. Then Elysia Harrington enters...

The Water Girls by Tony Stevens is a historical novel that begins when Lina arrives in Venice from Friuli. Following her mother’s instructions, Lina finds Maria, who later introduces her to the recently deceased Rosa’s network of bigolanti and guides her through Venice’s canals, sotoporteghi,...

The Duchess of Kokora by Nikhil Prabala follows Phera Ylir Mdana, who maneuvers through Ryene’s elite court to consolidate political power and win the Rounds—a public, strategic contest of influence, alliances, and combat. After striking Ser Vloram to protect a servant, Phera uses the scandal...

The Teacher Inside Me by Anthony Auswat is about obsessive love and embracing your true identity. Liam is in love with his high school teacher, Mr. Hilton, who’s happily married and completely oblivious to it. Being a closeted gay and crushing on someone you know...