Incompetence by Will Thorpe follows Wes Haas, a university literature professor driving east through the Pacific Northwest on a personal pilgrimage to Idaho. Haas is currently dealing with a major professional crisis after refusing to alter his graduate syllabus according to arbitrary institutional metrics, a...

Where The Kouprey Walk by Som Phin follows Dara Nhem, a Cambodian American whose father, Boran, has spent decades searching for his older brother Saran, who vanished during the refugee crisis following Khmer Rouge rule. Now, someone has posted a photo of a man in...

Dark Legacy by E M Schorb is told through the unfinished memoir of Jessie Judas, a celebrated biologist whose childhood on North Carolina’s Fortune Island is something of a mystery to her younger brother, David. As a girl, Jessie lives in the household of Reverend...

Sixty-four-year-old Elliot had been at The Mattress Store for years. Elliot and his boss, Mr. Durbin, were close friends, and Durbin even once hinted that Elliot might succeed him. This is why Elliot is surprised when Nathaniel, an insufferable junior employee, is inexplicably made manager....

My Island Secret by Bernard Harris centers on Brian Phillips, a correctional officer whose life is imploding. His eighteen-year marriage to Stacey is ice-cold, causing him so much panic that he ends up in the emergency room with a serious heart condition called A-Fib. While...

In D J Colbert’s If That Was Lunch, We’ve Had It, two friends, Will and Rodney, hatch a plan on a beach as teenagers: write a book to dodge regular jobs. They spend decades avoiding traditional labor, bouncing between high-country sheep farming, hospital shifts, retail...

Linda Dooks’ Land of Opportunity, Book Three begins in New York in 1914, when war in Europe sends desperate mothers and their children through Ellis Island. Rose Blackwood has spent years helping newcomers establish themselves in America, but the numbers now overwhelm the charitable houses...

Aged in Secrets by Joana Ventura is set in the Portuguese coastal city of Porto and the vineyards along the Douro River. Catarina Sousa is a forensic accountant sent by her high-flying London firm to audit Valdeira & Filhos, known for their vintage port wines....

In Joe Paul’s The Trouble with Troop 94, fourteen-year-old Robbie McDaniel moves to Seattle with his mother in 1999, two and a half years after his father’s death. At Queen Anne High, Robbie finds himself alone until he discovers a photo album documenting his father’s...

Spanning most of the 20th century, Thirty Grains of Love by Anette Rosen covers the love stories of two women, beginning when three couples discover an unoccupied mansion on the Black Sea up for sale. They have no idea one of the wives has ties...