Tag: fiction

OUR LITTLE WORLD BY KAREN WINN (Drop back tomorrow for a fun interview on Behind the Words with Karen Winn) July 1985. It’s a normal, sweltering New Jersey summer for soon-to-be seventh-grader Bee Kocsis....

Behind the Words welcomes author Autumn Lytle to our blog today. Autumn is a debut author releasing her first novel, ALL THAT FILLS US.  Welcome, Autumn, we’re excited to have you on Reader’s...

The Return By Jim Christina EVIL COMES IN MANY GUISES. . .  When the Deacon is shunned by the Southern Baptist Church in Dothan, Alabama for killing a man, he makes his way to...

REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES BY SHELBY VAN PELT For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow’s unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local...

In my fifth novel, The Saints of Swallow Hill, I write the story from the points of view of two individuals who find themselves searching for new beginnings after they each experience a...

IN THE FACE OF THE SUN BY DENNY S. BRYCE At the height of the Civil Rights Movement amidst an America convulsed by the 1960s, a pregnant young woman and her brash, profane...

I’ve lived all my life in the “Tar Heel State,” and yet, I didn’t know the true origins of the nickname. I had not set out to look for that history, however,...

KARITAS UNTITLED by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling...