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With both dry absurdism and great humanity, Bruce Berls’s VEILPIERCER successfully turns 21st-century concerns about technology and society into a rollicking vision of their looming...
Thomas Kuhn’s TOMMY ROCKET AND THE GOOBER PATROL overall maintains the light, adventurous tone of American childhood stories.
A remarkably imaginative flight, Russell Pike's JOURNEY OF SEVEN CIRCLES bristles with energy and verve in its fantastical story of duty and self-sacrifice.
ARENA GLOW is a vivid and inventive debut collection that marks Angela Chaidez Vincent as a poet to follow.
An absorbing, suspenseful feminist novel, Robin Strong’s SPLENDID LITTLE SCHEMES boasts believable, relatable multi-level marketing business women who amp up the drama with their façades.
A tender, layered fable set in a world where a baby’s laughter is magic and trees give advice, OLAF AND ESSEX by Patti Calkosz is...
Though the prose style is uneven and the perspectives are tough to stomach, Abby Reilly’s CHOICE OR CHANCE still has enough to offer a dedicated...
BLINDSIGHTED: A Journey of Identity, Faith, and Healing is a carefully constructed family history that pivots on a shock DNA revelation. Author Rich Christiansen skillfully...
THE SUN-GREETERS, Jen Ghastin’s tale of young adults struggling against apathy, conformity, and their own betrayals, is earnest and occasionally beautiful.
While it may alienate some readers, Rebecca Babcock’s WHERE THE SEABIRD SOARS will appeal to many readers of standard romance.
Florence during the Italian Renaissance is at the heart of Ken Tentarelli's engaging murder mystery, DEADLY RIVALRIES. Well-sketched depictions of the behaviors, objects, and people...
THE VELVET HAMMER: Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.’s Capital Murder Cases and Memoir
By Chief Judge Belvin Perry + Amy MitchellPart true-crime case study, part long-odds memoir, Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. and Amy Mitchell’s THE VELVET HAMMER: Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.'s Capital Murder Cases and...