This new book and method of quilt-as-you-go should prove popular with quilting enthusiasts and crafters. Sisters Vicki Dueno and Cheri Hibner have taken their love for quilting and experimentation and come up with a new quilt-as-you-go... Read More

This engaging story, with two skillfully spun parallel tales, begs to be read in one sitting. In his absorbing debut novel, Harry Simpson pairs the urgency of a soldier’s 1966 tour of duty in Vietnam with a nostalgic look at a... Read More

A cast of delightful characters make this a great book to read aloud. "Buggy and the Blue Frog" by Renee Smith is a children’s picture book about the importance of being yourself. This cute story has a good moral with lovable... Read More

Riveting, entertaining action elevates character-development and themes of light and dark in this experimental fantasy. "Invisible Wings" contains all of the elements needed to make a medieval fantasy: elves, fairies, dragons, kingdoms,... Read More

Precise imagery lays bare emotional experiences and observations. Sally Gallot-Reeves is a poet of witness. In "Between Shifts", she uses her writing as a recording device, a way of processing the trauma and healing that often surrounds... Read More

Walters’s poignant novel puts a human face on “honor killings” while tapping into the universal quandaries surrounding faith, hope, guilt, and familial love. The moral consequences of religiously motivated killings are but one... Read More

An ordinary young woman becomes a hero when entering a supernatural world in this enjoyable adventure. The characters in the supernatural novel Lords of Hanrahan by Darrell Tooker are likable because they are ordinary people thrust into... Read More

Edgy and edifying, this intriguing novel balances the religious with the risqué. From California State University professor Craig R. Smith comes an imaginative novel, "Herod from Hell", which places Herod the Great in the position of a... Read More