In Scott Gould’s novel "The Hammerhead Chronicles", cycling teaches a depressed man how to cope with life, though not in the way he expected. On the day that his almost-ex-wife Peg died, Claude bought a bicycle. It is the only good... Read More

"Day Dreamer" is a familiar love story between a human girl and a mythical being. A vampire lover and a mysterious man fall hard for each other in Thanya Olenyk’s young adult novel "Day Dreamer". Evangeline is talented at keeping her... Read More

"Forget Me" is a character-driven thriller focused on the question of what composes a person’s identity. Lisa Sherman’s thriller "Forget Me" is about a woman’s attempts to find out who she is. Five years ago, Wanda was found... Read More

Dark and supernatural forces affect many lives in Alla Gorbunova’s novel It’s the End of the World, My Love. Russia is a vast, contradictory place. For all its natural beauty and cultural traditions, its troubled history often causes... Read More

Part memoir, part self-help text, "The Blind Girl Sees" draws lessons from living with blindness, showing others how to learn from their own obstacles, too. Amber Needham became blind when she was fifty years old. A stem cell transplant... Read More

Based in truth, the thrilling novel My Father’s Secret involves history and the complicated aftermath of a terrorist attack. In Sean Patrick Dolan’s thriller My Father’s Secret, a distant father leaves behind a video tape revealing... Read More

"Heart Value" is a self-help book that makes joyful living seem like an adventure: exciting, exhilarating, and worth the hard work of getting there. Mary Tess Rooney’s "Heart Value" is a self-help book that empowers people to live with... Read More

You will never read a book quite like Sam Ernst’s experimental novel "The New Manifesto", whose wildly creative, careening story defies expectations. Described as the first and only novel by prolific biographer Arthur B. Johnson, the... Read More