The Ruby Demon by Oscar O'Rourke is a surreal and emotionally charged literary novel that follows a boy named Jack on a haunting journey through a warped version of the American Old West. In a landscape painted with horror, drama, and poetic intensity, Jack's experiences...

The Secret History of Famous People: Ten Short Stories by Rich Elliot is a collection of previously published tales, all ten crisply written and fabulously inventive. Each one looks at a celebrity, whether a writer, a politician, a conqueror, or a sports star (among others)....

The Fertile Crescent by Chadwick Wall sees us joining Laurent Ladnier, a once-celebrated New Orleans chef nearing forty, who dares to chase his long-standing dream of opening a restaurant that offers ‘true world fusion’ cuisine. Teaming up with Wilson Turner, a struggling restaurateur, Laurent faces...

The Bat is the second book in The Red Grouse Tales series by Leslie Garland. When a group of friends gathers at the local inn, one of them starts telling stories from their childhood. The narrator, Tom, recalls his summer holidays in school, spent swimming,...

The Wake of Expectations by Javier De Lucia is a raw, hilarious, and heartfelt coming-of-age novel set in the analog haze of the 1990s. Calvin ‘Cal’ McShane is poised for a perfect future with his dream college on the horizon, and his parents just won...

The Wizard of Odd by Patti Sherry-Crews revolves around Miles, an emotionally unstable voice actor with pseudobulbar affect (PBA), who arrives on Todd Island to house-sit at the Todd estate. Miles is tasked with looking after a dog named Tyrone, but the dog's size and...

Talking White Owl by Valerie Hagenbush is an expansive and powerful literary novel. Viktor Talking White Owl is a young Lakota man growing up near South Dakota’s Black Hills. Initially unaware of the deep and transformative history that surrounds him, Viktor comes of age under...

The Night of the Animals by J.J. Pascal follows René at his mother's wake, wading through unresolved issues with his estranged brother, Marcel. René feels overshadowed by Marcel at the ceremony and battles anxiety over the family curse of dying at age 35. As René...

Two Souls by Maksim Haretski, newly translated by Olya Ianovskaia, is a powerful existential and political novel that vividly captures the turmoil of early 20th-century Belarus. Originally published during the Russian Revolution and long suppressed for its bold critique of Bolshevism, the story follows Ignat...

In Judith Works' The Measure of Life, Nicole Carlisle, a young wife and mother, is married to Martin, a much older, career-driven man. She leaves her life in Seattle to live with him in Rome, where they both endure a loveless marriage. Desperately in need...