A new biography of the bohemian powerhouse Margaret C. Anderson opens with a quotation from Anthony Comstock, who has been in the news recently, although he died over 100 years ago. Comstock was a censorious bully who objected to the publication and distribution of written material that he deemed of...

If you think you know the story about King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, you may be in for a surprising – and enlightening –  awakening in The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty. This debut novel, the first in a trilogy, is described as a magical Camelot that is......

In a small town in Indiana, two teenagers named Aubrey and Nick fall in love. Nick lives with his alcoholic father, while Aubrey comes from a traditional family. Can their love survive?  Love Letters from Other People is a novel told in dual timelines: the present and 17 years ago.......

Cynthia Schumacher’s Prose Pizza is a charming, thoughtful collection of nine stories that reveal the extraordinary layers beneath ordinary lives. With a warm yet incisive eye, Schumacher explores private desires, social expectations, small rebellions and the moments — quiet or sudden — that r...

Female friendship is all the rage in popular culture at the moment. You see it in the forefront of movies, TV shows, and social media. The idea that platonic relationships between women are of incredible importance, more so even than a romantic relationship, has become more and more normalized in......

Micheliny Verunschk weaves a nuanced web about colonialism and the effect centuries-old behavior still has on modern times in her newest release, The Jaguar’s Roar. With whip-smart prose, she imagines the life of Iñe-e as she is raised in Brazil and eventually taken from her homeland. Verunschk�...

The Christmas Spirit by Alexandrea Weis emerges as a fresh deviation from the conventional holiday tales that saturate the market around this time of year. Courtney Winston, the protagonist of the story, is an accountant in Nashville and a writer in her spare time — although, like most aspiring au...

What would you do if you know your exact point of death? What if death is encoded into our DNA at birth? Imagine the possibilities. They’re hard to grasp, right? John H. Thomas delves into those very questions in his new novel, The Terminal Gene. The novel’s far from an......

The Incredible Kindness of Paper is a sprightly, optimistically sunny book with a clever combination of light fantasy and romance that although published in mid-summer will instantly banish dreary late fall and winter doldrums. New York Times best-selling author Evelyn Skye has previously written se...