In The Nimbles of Nimbus, illustrated and written by Sharon Boylan Lynch, a joyride in a glider and an unexpected turn of events bring two curious and imaginative groups of children together. Skittle and Tumble, two cloud children, spend... Read More

Many towns can boast a place like the Dirty Dog Saloon, where regulars have their own tables and everyone is connected in some way with everyone else. On the day wealthy Jasper Londsberry will die, the patrons of the saloon are all at... Read More

Encouragement of creative experimentation and erasure of promotional definition—these are techniques often seen in the writing and marketing of books that have attempted to harness the qualities of several categories. A tense interplay... Read More

This is a mixed bag mystery story that rolls past and present, Brazilians, Nigerians, Yankees, Southerners, cops, villains, ghosts, conjurors, sacrificial lambs, and long-dead sinners into a big calabash and shakes with gusto. Richard... Read More

Esther Kohler has no fallback plan: She says, “I had, somehow, managed to graduate with a theater degree from Northwestern, but without a job or a trust fund I had to choose between moving home and suffering the rancid fate of a... Read More

“A word of advice,” cautions Alexander, the narrator and hero of Andrew Levkoff’s The Bow of Heaven. “If you can possibly avoid it, do not get shot.” Such wry asides are plentiful in this tale of a Greek student “harvested... Read More

What happens when a family splinters apart? This is the main question posed in Rebecca Diamond’s emotionally moving memoir Saving the Kids: A Grandmother’s Story. Diamond writes about a two-year period where she saw her daughter fall... Read More

Abraham Lincoln once claimed his best friend was “the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read,” writes Augustin Stucker in his thoroughly researched and lively “dual biography” of the sixteenth president of the United States... Read More