A troubled ghost asks whether love can survive death in Lucy Banks’s compelling mystery, "The Hanged Man and the Fortune Teller". Two ghosts wander London. One has forgotten his identity and is losing his few remaining memories. The... Read More

In D. W. Gillespie’s unsettling novel "One by One", a family falls prey to a house’s malevolence as they struggle to stay together. The Eastons thought they found the perfect fixer-upper when they bought an isolated, strange old... Read More

In Noah Milligan’s startling novel "Into Captivity They Will Go", Caleb, a teenage boy of perceived miraculous birth, is raised by an evangelical, end-times-obsessed mother who’s convinced that he is the second coming of Christ.... Read More

Teen drama and the ups and downs of being gay and out in high school dominate Julian Winters’s heartfelt young adult novel How to Be Remy Cameron. Remy—who’s a teenager, gay, adopted, and black—has been assigned an AP English... Read More

Nancy Au’s exquisite short story collection "Spider Love Song and Other Stories" focuses on survivors—refugees, orphans, widows, single mothers, and village elders—who are caught between old world Chinese values and heritages and... Read More

While he’s out for a walk in the autumn woods, Mr. Cat discovers a wee, thumb-sized girl who brings love, light, and laughter into his regimented days. The little sprite spreads joy and inspires creativity, brightening the cold winter... Read More

When Max breaks a precious family heirloom by accident, her immediate solution is a wild scheme involving the construction and use of a homemade time machine. The book is an enjoyable flit through history—a humorous, lighthearted... Read More

Katya Geller has been making her living as a writer for the past twelve years, all the more impressive because she’s a Russian immigrant writing in English. But making a living as a writer requires you to write, and now she’s stalled... Read More