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...

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...

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...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

Some dreams refuse to let go. In The Author's Table by K.L. Lewis, for Deidra, that means becoming a published author. An invitation from a respected publisher in New York seems like the chance she's been waiting for. Instead, she's offered something she never expected....

In 1981, six-year-old Penn Lockshire dives into Iroquois Lake and finds a mussel with the largest pearl in North America. In The Pearl Farmers by Stacey Gordon, the story begins with three sisters, daughters of James and Kate Lockshire, a third-generation family of pearl farmers....