All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

What Time Has Kept by Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is a remarkable novel that weaves historical fiction with mystery. The story unfolds in Scotland, in the Victorian era. Sixty-year-old archaeology enthusiast Christian Maclagan indulges her fascination with prehistoric stones, paving her way to recognition by the...

This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

The Attenuating Puritan by Robert McGuiness is a work of satire that makes the reader wince, or at times laugh somewhat uncomfortably at the state of mental illness, industrial contaminants, and other factors affecting modern day America. A man who has likely suffered from bipolar...

As Human of the Year by Beka Wueste begins, it’s been 20 years since Matt Keegan has seen the outside world. It is now time for him to come home from prison, and his sister, Jenny, is eagerly awaiting his release. Jenny was a young...

Some people hit rock bottom. In Alaskan Humble Pie by Natasha Von Imhof, rock star Ryder Hartley hits it on stage, in front of a crowd, blanking out on the words of his own lyrics. He flees the stage only to run straight into a...

Eric Bush’s The Meaning of Androsia is an epic odyssey that follows Ilya Erynovich Koskayin, also known throughout his two-thousand-year-old life by thirty different names. He wakes up in a train station with no memory, yet his instinct brings back skills and knowledge that can...

Ken Wall’s Bathing With JFK centers on Austin Grant, a Houston lawyer who once found his model for greatness in a John F. Kennedy biography that he read in the bathtub before graduation. Ten years later, Austin is trapped in legal work that has given...

Glenscott Thomas Copper’s Angels Dance on the Head of a Pin follows Scott Rankin, a small red-haired Catholic boy from 1962 La Crosse, after his family’s breakup pushes him from St. John’s parish school toward Chicago. Scott wants to become the priest his Italian grandmother...

The Adventures of Kimo by Eric A. Javier captures the feeling of being a young child desperate to escape a mundane afternoon. Kimo is stuck at home because a thick fog has blanketed the California coast, ending any chance of his going to the beach....