Clifton Wilcox’s The Black Ledger of Salem follows Eliza Harrow, whose father, Nathaniel Harrow, brings the family to Salem after leaving Andover in search of work and lodging. The town is already caught in a witchcraft panic when the Harrows arrive. The men on the...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

In Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint, Sarah Wu is a Boston neurosurgeon whose family is caught in a global rupture of time. Strange signals appear in hospital EEGs just as public reports describe birds freezing in the air and airplanes flickering midflight. When the sky...

In Solace Enough by Brian A. Brooks, Austin and Helen move from Texas to New York and open a photographic studio. They begin a new life after years apart and tragic losses: his mother’s death due to ovarian cancer and her family’s deaths in a...

Robert Dyer’s A Small Memory is set in 1975 Ohio, where Mike arrives at Appleton College as a freshman basketball recruit and takes a live-in counselor job at a group home run through the HOPE Agency. Ted Dirksen, his best friend and roommate, already works...

The Last Poet on Wall Street by Michael Goodwin follows James Alexander, an exceptionally gifted young poet from rural Tennessee who abandons a Yale fellowship to chase riches in New York in the 1980s. Lark Campbell, someone James knew in college, recruits him, and James...

The Itch of the Middling Cat by R. S. Vern is for fans of literary fiction and novels about animals. Haee is a black cat with a crooked tail. Rescued by Tom and Jane when he was a kitten, Haee wants to be useful to...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

In The Last Revision, Patrick Smith centers on an aging protagonist, Bill, who spends his days tracing the footsteps of his past while confined to an isolated room. Everything changes when the sudden arrival of a childhood journal forces him to look back at the...

American Gyro by Jim Zervanos follows eighteen-year-old Johnny Demos, the grandson of a Greek restaurateur in Kornfield, Pennsylvania, after a school play gives him a first taste of acting. Papou’s death leaves the Old Kornfield Inn in Uncle Nick’s hands, and Johnny is expected to...