Review by Angela Kubinec In my morbid imagination I wonder if a drowning person has time to realize that others are standing around doing nothing, stunned and possibly silent.

Review by Joy Ralph Into the Drowning Deep is Mira Grant’s novel-length follow-up to her 2015 novella Rolling In The Deep.

Review by Dr. Donna Roberts While countless new business books come out every day, sometimes it serves us well to revisit the “new” wisdom of yesterday.

Review by Joy Ralph Conspiracy theories, aliens, brain washing and spirit possession are all advanced in service of explaining how we got here.

Review by Angela Kubinec The Garden of the Fugitives, winner of the 2013 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, is a collection by Ashley Mace Havird.

Review by Angela Kubinec It is the eternal southern gothic truth, and it sounds like a rotten spoiler. It tests the stuff of any southern writer.

Review by Joy Ralph A large part of why I fall off the map each late spring and early summer is the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

Review by Angela Kubinec Morris shares tales of the many ways we travel, in our minds and with our bodies.

Review by Donna Roberts I’m always intrigued when a plot that has been done before—many times before, until it’s almost a cliché—can come across fresh and new.

Review by Joy Ralph At first glance, this is a deceptively simple-sounding romance: talented dancer falls for mysterious, powerful and possibly dangerous client.

Review by Angela Kubinec P.W. Bridgman’s book is a collection of short stories and flash fiction that illustrates the importance of “standing” wherever one finds oneself.

Review by Joy Ralph How does an author tell a fresh and interesting story when an audience already knows how everything is going to end?

In Lucy we see the parts of ourselves that are at once hardened, and yet remain vulnerable, toughened and yet desperate, conquered and yet not fully defeated.

Our ever-intrepid staff has reviewed their reading lists for 2016 and presents a small sampling of their favorites.

review by Angela Kubinec The path to self-actualization includes sabotage. It is crowded and messy. It trips us on the worn out shoestrings of our relation to the world.