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We Burn Daylight
Bret Anthony Johnston
Acclaimed Texas-based author Bret Anthony Johnston is back with a novel based loosely on the events at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco nearly thirty years ago. It’s 1993, and people have sold everything they own to come worship The Lamb and prepare for the End Times. Further complicating things, one of the faithful’s daughters falls in love with the son of the local sheriff. Geraldine Brooks says, “In an epic act of empathy, Bret Anthony Johnston inhabits every point of view, from doomed devotees to perplexed law enforcement.”
The Stone Catchers
Laura Leigh Morris
In this gripping novel from West Virginia native Laura Leigh Morris and University Press of Kentucky, an active shooter opens fire on a community college campus in a small Appalachian town. Morris examines, through a series of alternately shifting viewpoints, the actions the survivors had to take under siege, the pain and trauma of gun violence, and the repercussions throughout the entire community after the cameras leave town. She refuses to let us just look away and move on.
Tell It To Me Singing
Tita Ramírez
This Miami native’s debut novel begins with a family matriarch spilling a shocking family secret as she’s admitted to the hospital for emergency heart surgery. The confession throws the whole family into a tailspin, especially her pregnant daughter Monica. It becomes increasingly unclear whether her mother is telling the truth or just channeling the telenovela in her room. Monica’s quest for the real story takes her (and us) through an engaging intergenerational saga that explores what makes a family, and Ramírez tells it with grace, generosity, and humor.
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