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....

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

The Corporate Mute is a workplace series of stories inspired by the experiences of the author, Tiffany Gray Jackson, in healthcare management. The book has three parts: Freeze, Fawn, and Flight, based on the body's stress reactions. Each part introduces workplace personas the author encountered...

This is a story of belonging as lifelong friendships continue to mature. In The Gray New Deal by Miriam Kuznets, Barry owns West House, where he and his family reunite. Doris, Ellen, Jane, Pearl, Tomas, Vihaan, and Barry have been friends since college, and now,...

Isabelle Marsden, "Belle" to everyone, is thirty-four and running from a Chicago life that has hollowed her out. In The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski drops her, fresh out of a job, into a Kansas town chosen almost by accident: a...

The Youngster by Bibi Berki is a story of love, belonging, and loss. Cherry has been diagnosed with dementia. She is a single mother with only one child, Georgie, and they are more like buddies than mother and daughter. Cherry is already showing signs of...