Something strange is happening in the coastal town of Mist Falls. A purple, skull-shaped cloud appeared overhead a week ago, and now several mothers have disappeared, including twelve-year-old Nell Perkins’s mother, Rose. Nell and her... Read More

This is imaginative work about a man’s quest for true connection. A sprawling, fantastical work about a man’s spiritual journey, "Celestial Mechanics" is the first novel by William Least Heat-Moon, who is well-known for his... Read More

"Dragonwatch" is the first follow-up volume to Brandon Mull’s best-selling Fablehaven series. Siblings Kendra and Seth Sorenson live with their grandparents on a farm in Connecticut, but theirs is no ordinary pastoral life. Ever since... Read More

This fantasy contains enough twists, turns, and fantastical elements to keep audiences intrigued. In a land where islands float in the sky and horses grow wings, Elia is adrift, caught in the middle of a deception that spans generations... Read More

Omnivores are not left out of the new crop of cookbooks, and the focus in Farmette is on growing or buying the best quality ingredients from local sources. Author Imen McDonnell was a confirmed American urbanite before meeting her future... Read More

This is a potent reminder of the sacrifices and struggles that dedicated men and women make on behalf of their nations. In the tough-minded but open-hearted memoir "15 Years of War", the wife of a US Marine shows what it takes to build... Read More

The stories are what they need to be, and if that involves a doglike alien’s wordless meeting with a shepherd, so be it. Jacob Weisman settles—or perhaps provokes—the debate about what constitutes literature, and what represents... Read More

Anyone who enjoys magical realism would be committing a crime by skipping this remarkable piece of work. Dreamlike and fantastical, yet strangely earnest, Alfredo Vea’s "The Mexican Flyboy" is a magical realist tour de force. Simon... Read More