The Gold Rush is over, and San Francisco teems with entrepreneurs of all stripes—shady and otherwise. Set in 1851, after the height of the Gold Rush, Ken Salter’s novel on French emigrants portrays entrepreneurialism‎ in San... Read More

Young adults who enjoy fantasy that is both intelligent and thought provoking will most likely enjoy "Flames of Alnara". Author J. L. Adams has left plenty of room for future books, and readers will finish the last page looking forward... Read More

Historical fiction succeeds when the invented characters reveal more truths about history than the textbooks. It’s rare, though, that a novelist can achieve the intimate voice of Margaret Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara or Arthur... Read More

Author Jane M. Hogg writes with a straightforward and precise style perfect for nonfiction. "Beware the Mandarins" goes beyond the standard memoir, detailing a period of corruption in British government that she experiences firsthand... Read More

Murder in the first degree: a chilling and terrifying charge for anyone. For Richard Jaffe, however, it’s the very first step in one of the American legal system’s most important causes. Having spent almost his entire legal career as... Read More

I loved Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, seeing myself in his wonderful stories of faraway places, strange-looking people, and magnificent adventures. I wanted my own magnificent adventure, just like them. Jack Sligo, a fifteen-year-old Irish... Read More

"The Luminist", by David Rocklin, explores the struggle to find one’s place in the world when confined by society to an ill-fitting role in which one’s dreams and abilities outshine what is acceptable—and what it means to break... Read More

The title of George Peltekian’s poetry collection is accurate: it’s packed full of "Poems Galore". This poet is bold: he tackles such big dog topics as God, politics, and human nature, and he does so with straight-up, often humorous... Read More