“There’s just something about being in a place where what matters most is right in front of you.” That’s one of my favorite lines from KJ Dell’Antonia’s warm, funny, and enveloping novel, The Chicken Sisters. It’s something we all need…
If you’re in the mood for what There There author Tommy Orange calls “a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth…a brilliant meditation on power and violence, and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve,”…
Malcolm and Me is Robin Farmer’s YA debut, an #OwnVoices historical fiction narrative rooted in the author’s personal experiences with racism as a young girl. Winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest, Farmer…
Jane Gilmartin’s debut speculative thriller The Mirror Man follows Jeremiah Adams as he agrees to relinquish control of his life for one year and be replaced by a ViMed clone as a part of a secret social experiment. At first,…
A steampunk Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliet, The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira is set on warring planets and propelled by a prophesy, a love story, and a series of power plays from which not every character will emerge unscathed….
In 1968, a group of new mothers started a book club in a suburb of Detroit. Fifty-three years and more than 630 books later, ten of the Lit Group’s twelve original members continue to meet monthly. Now in their eighties,…