Natalie Wright's THE SPRING DRAGON is a well-plotted, action-packed, and worthy addition to the Dragos Primeri fantasy series.

Readers seeking standard narratives may find the fractured realities and linguistic acrobatics of Yarrow Paisley's I, NO OTHER too disorienting. However, those who relish fiction...

Told with the thoughtful reflectiveness of a practiced yogi but with persistent emotional immediacy, Michael Shandler’s KARMA & KISMET is an excellent memoir of both...

Through powerful storytelling and unflinching honesty, Ernestine Whitman's COUNTERMELODIES: A Memoir in Sonata Form transcends genre boundaries—providing both a strong critique of classical music's patriarchal...

Michael C. Higgins's EXPLORING WINE REGIONS: MEXICO is a well-organized, beautifully illustrated guide that promises to be of substantial use for travelers wishing to experience...

Although this complicated life story would benefit from a clearer chronology, Julia Antoinette Rosenstein's LAST BOHEMIAN: The Life and Times of Jonathan David Batchelor Part...

Garrick Jones’s THE PERFUME OF WAR has a fun premise, some interesting historic detail, and a few brisk action scenes for a story that works...

Though well-imagined and well-voiced, Deborah Mistina’s IMBER doesn’t quite cohere as well as it should.

Kendrick Gatchuissi's THE PHOENIX AWAKENS offers up a heroic teen character who is easy to root for, but the book’s brevity means that his tale...

Through a veil of mysticism and cozy tea-drinking perfect for an autumn night, Sherri L. Dodd's MOONSET ON DESERT SANDS offers a quirky cast of...

Glen Loveland’s first book, BEIJING BOUND: A Foreigner Discovers China, is an endlessly fascinating snapshot of life in Beijing at the very beginning of the...

Nathalie Bujold Ryan’s HARPAZO: Book One of the Trib Trilogy benefits from good dialogue and characterization.