In Lee Chappel’s thriller "Crickets", a woman is forced to confront her past, whose threats stretch into the present. Kara fled Paige, Ohio, after she was raped by one of its prominent citizens. Her father’s sudden death forces her... Read More

Two troubled girls form a lifelong connection in E. J. Schwartz’s compassionate novel "Before We Were Blue". Frail but charismatic Rowan doesn’t give the first impression of having been traumatized. When she was admitted to RR, a... Read More

Nate returns with new middle school hijinks, puppy love, baseball, and Cheez Doodles in Big Nate: Aloha! Here, the sixth grade know-it-all attempts to woo a fellow classmate, Daisy, with his charm and infinite wisdom, only to strike out... Read More

In the philosophical novel "Hotel Bars and the Art of Being Conscious", a student of life doubles as a bartender, hoping to learn what being human is all about. Copious drinks and mind control play into August Delp’s cerebral novel... Read More

In this debut collection, Evan D. Williams tees up more than twenty new poems and a further two dozen that first appeared in journals like Borderlands and The Mud Season Review. THE POETS the poets write their words for their legs to... Read More

"A Vision Fulfilled" is the intriguing biography of a successful midcentury woman entrepreneur. Michael Pulley’s "A Vision Fulfilled" is a compelling biography of entrepreneur Patti Penny. Penny herself supplies the information and... Read More

In 1994, Ashten Geddard, the front man of the popular UK band the Ashbirds, disappeared while attempting to climb Mount Everest. That’s how Roz Morris’s excellent novel "Ever Rest" begins—before jumping eighteen years into the... Read More

With a mesmerizing vision of life among the stars, wherein space’s endless horizon only seems limited by the expectations of a small, blue-collar community, Rebecca Thorne’s middle grade novel "The Secrets of Star Whales" is deft in... Read More