Throughout Soaring Through Stars, Rajdeep Paulus has almost every chapter narrated by 2 different people. Their names are Jesse (Justice) and Talia Vanderbilt. Both are teens. Both kids have escaped a childhood full of abuse, and are now trying to put their father behind...

Re-Wired by Greg Dragon tells the story of Brad Barkley, a student busy with creating his new android, Tricia. His only break is a few exchanges with his college mate, Mika, with whom he is unsuccessful in making a romantic connection. Tricia, in the meantime,...

In Drowning by Katelin Maloney, Rebecca is a normal woman living in New York with dreams of making something better of her life. On the outside, she is happy and on the verge of success, but the inside of her life tells a different story....

That Birds Would Sing is a novel of recollected adolescence by Joanna Franklin Bell. After reading a shocking obituary in her local newspaper, the once-mousy and watchful April Jones dissects her freshman year of high school, unpicking the pieces to make sense of the harrowing...

In Jon Reisfeld’s The Reform Artists, Martin Silkwood has found himself in dire straits. His wife Katie has up and left their home in Maryland, taking with her the kids and even the family dog. Martin has no clue where his wife is or why...

The muddy waters of the Perdido River swamps are covering a multitude of secrets, as are the Shelbey, Percy and Doogan families. It is Duddy Doogan’s quest to uncover them all in a search for his father or his father’s remains, as well as some...

Amber Walker is a social worker. In Don't You Tell (Don't You Cry) (Volume 2) by Aimee Taylor, the story begins with Amber Walker losing her husband at the age of twenty-six. She is shattered by the loss and starts picking up the pieces of...

Becoming Moon by Craig A. Hart is a moving story about a young man who dreams of making a name for himself as a writer. Growing up in a conservative family, he rejects his parents’ way of life and tries to follow his dream. As...

Beyond the Trial by Chigozie Anuli Mbadugha is a book of three stories which depict the discrimination and injustices which occur against women in Nigerian families. The stories are developed in everyday language, and describe the trials that the women go through, and the difficulties...

While set at the foot of the Rockies in the towns of Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado, the style, themes, and prose of James Zerndt’s Brailling For Wile places it alongside the work of other literary “Midwestern” writers such as Kent Haruf and Richard Russo....