The Crispin Chronicles by Dawn Knox is simply a wonderfully humorous piece of escapist fun. Set in Her Ladyship’s fantastical magic garden, the story revolves around a collection of elves, gnomes, fairies, trolls, cherubs, slugs, and other amazing inhabitants of this arboreal wonderland. Told from...

The Imposter by Johanna van Zanten is a moving, heartfelt story about one woman’s journey through the turbulent and dangerous world of twentieth-century Europe during and after the two world wars. Johanna was born into a country she believed to be her own, Germany, but...

Table for Two by Eliot Parker is a collection of ten short stories, each focusing on the conversations between two people. Set in Appalachia, these stories dive into how people connect—or fail to connect—with each other. The collection starts with "From the Stars Above," where...

Tales From the Texas Timberlands by J. Andrew Rice comprises five short stories inspired by those told on Texas porches. They present very different characters and deal with many themes and situations. In the first story, we are on a farm where we meet Billy and Jim...

In The Bright Freight Of Memory by Greg Fields, the Cooneys' path had remained the same since their ancestors had immigrated from Ireland. Hard labor and lots of drinking. Michael Cooney had grown up with an abusive alcoholic father, and due to his circumstances, he...

The Evolution of Nora O'Brien Pacheco by Kevin O'Flaherty is a coming-of-age story with themes of travel, friends and family, and peer influence. Teenage Nora goes from her home country Spain to a summer boarding school in Wales. She makes friends, discovers a mystery that...

The Company She Keeps by Zelmer Wilson is a literary fiction novel that delves into the complex life of Isabel Mathews, a successful Tulane University professor. Isabel's seemingly perfect life is jeopardized by her secret affair with a student, Raymond Walker. When a family emergency...

The Moon, Her Crown by Christine Meade is a new adult novel that explores generational relationships and expectations. Twenty-year-old Lacy and her older brother Stephen live with their grandmother who is the owner of Martinique’s Mystics in San Francisco. While Lacy’s mom Chartreuse has been...

In The Ties That Divide by Sandra Preisler and Taylor Preisler, Zoe and her mother escape from France amidst the slaughter of aristocrats. Settling in London was not easy for the two, but Simone worked hard to provide for their needs. After some time, she...

The last words from Hinda’s father (Tatae in Yiddish) were: “You will live, and you will tell.” It has taken many years for her story to be written from eleven audio tapes that Hinda Mondlak Goldman recorded before she died in 1985. Tatae’s Promise by...