The Metamorphosis of Marna Love by Tom McEachin is a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old high school sophomore. Raised by her single mother, Marna Love never quite felt like a typical teenager. She would rather read Kafka than worry about boys. She finds existential writers...

In the riveting historical novel, The Making of a Witch by Judy Molland, Alice Molland begins questioning God and her way of life when her mentor and friend is convicted of being a witch and hanged. After her father is killed by Cromwell’s soldiers, twelve-year-old...

Don’t Never Give Up by Rich Simms follows Ezekiel “Bonkie” Harrison, a small but determined ten-year-old boy, who wakes up alone in a hotel he’s staying in on the way to his aunt’s house. He waits for his father, or Pap as he calls him,...

A Dangerous Friendship by Robin Merle is a novel about grief, obsession, and the strange hunger for connection after loss. The narrator, Tina, begins the story in emotional turmoil, newly divorced and exhausted by a series of endings. Seeking distraction and a reset, she throws...

It's a (Enter Difficulty Setting Here) Life by Anthony Moffett is a well-written book that enlightens readers on the importance of creating a balance in everything, even while indulging in hobbies and activities they are passionate about. Cody Redbond, a hardcore gamer, is beginning to...

Clare’s Boutique: Three Stories and One Essay by Eric Giroux is a collection of moments of vulnerability, identity, and reckoning through the character Clare. In Ice Time, Clare and Jack O’Connor, once best kindergarten friends, reunite later under strained circumstances during a Scout troop trip...

Song of the Chimney Sweep by Tamatha Cain traces the life of Betty Van Disson, nee Langdon, from a winter night in Florida in 1969 through decades shaped by obligation and secrecy. As a teenager, Betty meets singer Dominicus Owens and imagines a future beyond...

Vesper by Evan Marks follows the titular Vesper, who lives in New York and works as a senior consultant. After a chance meeting overseas leads to a second encounter in the city, Vesper begins seeing Caspian, a man whose life operates on a scale far...

A Brief History of Wasting Time by Gary C McAuley follows Cyrus, a man who decides that doing as little as possible will govern his days after finishing a long-postponed physics book. He stays indoors, organizes his hours around television, minor contests, and talk, then...

Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski is a historical novel set in Venice in the early eighteenth century. Agata Farusi was a ten-year-old girl trying to come to terms with the untimely death of her mother. Cared for by her loving Nonna (grandmother), in their neighborhood...