The Falls of Us: A Compilation of Short Stories by E.M. Fowler explores society’s underlying issues and what comes after a painful experience. A religious woman is adamant that she murdered her husband despite evidence contradicting her claims. A vindictive ex-wife plays puppet master to...

Stephen Panus’s novel, The Circles We Carry, is a heart-wrenching and profoundly thoughtful story of a family’s unexpected, deep loss and their harrowing journey through grief in search of a way forward. Jesse Brennan is 17, a junior in Naperville High School in Illinois. He...

Sometimes you have to break a few rules to figure out where you belong. In The Trolley to Renwick Park by Susan Gere Carter, seventeen-year-old Lucy Harmon lives in Ithaca, New York, in 1915, when young women are expected to marry and settle into traditional...

The Farmer's Wife and the MenoClucks by Barbara Elizabeth takes the touchy subject of menopause and explains it through her hens as they grow older and can no longer meet the demands of a rooster who rules the yard. He doesn't account for the fact...

Things are not always as they appear. In Susan Poole’s Out of the Crash, there are many things in both the Beasley and Shawver families that are hidden from the eyes of their community. The families become subjects of community gossip and speculation when Amy...

Gabi Robb’s The Color of Us is the story of Addie Calloway, a Chicago screenwriter still grieving the death of her mother, Emma, after years of devoted caregiving. She returns home to Chicago with thirty boxes of her mother's belongings and discovers hundreds of letters...

Ashley Manley’s The Difference Between follows Reese Conway, a forty-year-old private equity partner in Chicago who has spent years measuring her life by goals she set as a teenager. When her mother undergoes brain surgery in North Carolina on the same day Reese presents the...

Heart of the Wild Gods by Kendall Brooks is a sweeping, epic tale of life in a small part of the Kingdom of Wessex in the ninth century. Three years after the Battle of Edington, where the Saxons established their control over the Kingdom of...

The Last Pirouette: A Novel in Three Acts by Janette DeFelice is an artistically crafted work of literary fiction, chronicling Delia and her mother, Victoria. Victoria’s dreams have always dominated Delia’s life. Having failed as a dancer, Victoria returns to her small hometown and takes...

Amanda Sung’s How to Break a Girl follows the unbreakable bond between three Asian-Canadian best friends—Elizabeth Park, Aurora Zhang, and Lily Kuo—as they face loss, love, and survival in Vancouver and other places, including Silicon Valley. The story begins as a graduation-day reunion and unfolds...