September 29, 2026
In this speculative novel, two young women are invested in finding the truth about Christmasville, a town where it’s always December or January, and which exists outside normal space and time.
Esmeralda lives in Christmasville, a small American town where inhabitants live a “Groundhog Day”-like existence. It’s always winter and no one gets old or […]
September 23, 2026
In this minimalist tale, a migrant worker chronicles his days moving from job to job on a drilling rig.
Protagonist Mark Bonen’s life on the job is an austere one. At an unnamed location, work is 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in a temporary town of containers made into offices, a mess […]
September 23, 2026
Sarah Branson’s tender paranormal romance explores love, memory, sacrifice, and grief by examining what survives life and death.
Clara Donovan is grieving her divorce and failed book when she moves into her late grandmother’s house in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In the cemetery where she once played as a child, Clara meets Benjamin “Whit” Whitlock, the ghost […]
September 10, 2026
In Tim Adams’ cosmic, comedic novel, Hank Kruzenski is a simple man with simple dreams, living in a podunk town near San Francisco in the early ‘70s.
Hank, who narrates the story, is a 24-year-old muscle car enthusiast who wants nothing more than to outfit his vintage Barracuda (or, ‘Cuda, as he lovingly calls it) […]
August 25, 2026
In this science fiction novel, a woman finally confronts a long-held delusion about her life, even as the universe is falling apart around her.
Sarah Wu is a brilliant, happily married Boston neurosurgeon with four children, ages 8 to 16. Suddenly, strange occurrences begin to affect the cosmos: a double moon, a slight movement in […]
August 18, 2026
Author Jo Taylor offers a moving novel based on a true-life tale of love and sacrifice that includes letters taken from real life.
Mimi and Maurice are distant cousins who begin corresponding in 1924 to help their foreign language skills. She lives in San Francisco, while his home is in Belgium and the Congo. Although […]
August 11, 2026
Don Mitchell’s Mauka —meaning “to the mountain”— is a dramatic, character-driven account set in a vividly described Hawaii.
The story focuses on two former high school classmates, now in their 70s. June Nakashima, a divorced, former math professor, has recently returned from a lifetime on the mainland to her hometown in Hilo, Hawaii. There, she […]
July 21, 2026
In this sensory-rich novel, Turkish American author Güzide Ertürk follows a perceptive young woman determined to restore the body of water next to her insular village.
As a resident of the Mossy Village, Azra believes that the sea is an irrepressible force: “Aegean never forgives mistakes and can become, in an instant, a furious enemy.” […]
July 21, 2026
In Darran Smith’s novel, The Alphabet Lovers, photographer Marcos Ferreira moves through two decades and a revolving cast of partners (one for every letter of the alphabet) in search of a love that lasts.
The story opens with Marcos on his wedding day, then loops backward through the relationships that shaped him, including: Adam, his […]
July 9, 2026
My Mother Said My Name is both a historical novel of recent history and a tale of revenge.
The beginning shocks readers into the story, as within the first eight pages the narrator’s mother is stoned to death in Kabul. She was a leader of the Afghan women’s movement, and the Taliban murder her.
Narrator […]