Earth, you old frigate, sailing the galactic winds for billions of years, taking fire from pesky meteorites, nurturing ever-evolving flora and fauna, shedding same in frantic spates of extinction, all while staying true to your polar... Read More

Hunting by Stars / A Marrow Thieves Novel / Cherie Dimaline / Amulet Books / Hardcover $18.99 (400pp) / 978-1-4197-5347-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Indigenous populations are targeted by wanton forces in Cherie... Read More

We’re blessed as a species—no need to play the fight or flight game anymore, food arrives at our doorsteps minutes after we make the request, disease is mostly understood and cured with medicine—but that doesn’t mean life is easy... Read More

Cross this grand land of ours and you’ll scarcely find a more culturally rich region than South Carolina—with its strong African and Caribbean influences, bountiful coastal waters, and three hundred-plus years of adventurous cooking... Read More

The Almost Queen / Alys Murray / Sword & Silk Books / Softcover $12.99 (270pp) / 978-1-73643-004-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The fantasy novel The Almost Queen begins in the aftermath of eight years of war, when... Read More

Look back over the past twenty five years or so and put your finger on some of the ways society has changed for the better. LGBTQ+ rights, for example. Would you have guessed that gay marriage would be overwhelmingly accepted now, when... Read More

The Undercover Book List / Colleen Nelson / Pajama Press / Hardcover $17.95 (264pp) / 978-1-77278-187-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In The Undercover Book List, two twelve-year-olds forge a friendship based on their... Read More

Defy the Night / Brigid Kemmerer / Bloomsbury / Hardcover $18.99 (496pp) / 978-1-5476-0466-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The first volume of a new fantasy series from bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer, Defy the... Read More