A surprising serial killer goes up against an atypical detective in the thrilling novel "The Caltrap Murders". A serial killer uses a medieval method to terrorize New York City in Howard Bruce Weiner’s mystery novel "The Caltrap... Read More

Bittersweet and troubling, "Visions of Destiny" is a fantasy novel in which a gifted boy cannot escape what the future has in store for him. In Edward R. Lipinski’s fantasy novel "Visions of Destiny", a reluctant clairvoyant muddles... Read More

Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes... Read More

"Three Sixes and a Forked Tongue or Cold Medicine and a Liar" is an intriguing coming-of-age horror novel in which outcast friends encounter witchcraft and grow apart. A girl delves into witchcraft in the woods of West Virginia in James... Read More

Women storytellers and communal bases of women’s knowledge undergird a woman’s year of self-discovery in New York in the intimate novel "Daughter of a Promise". In Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s coming-of-age novel "Daughter of a... Read More

"The Power of Imperfect Parents" is a thoughtful but insular guide that delivers general advice for the parents of special needs children. Based in considerable personal experience, Lynda Drake’s parenting guide "The Power of Imperfect... Read More

Animals band together to return to their flooded home in the allegorical novel "The Perilous Journey of Gavin the Great". A flood is coming, in which an entire forest’s worth of animals will be swept away, in Don Gutteridge’s... Read More

A development project ignites a community’s sense of activism in the lesson-filled novel "The Caretaker". In Ken Saik’s idealized novel "The Caretaker", citizens of idyllic Aspen Grove explore what it means to care for a place or a... Read More