In 1976, the Cold War is turning up some chilling evidence for a detective in East Berlin. David Young’s "A Darker State" follows the mysterious case of a drowned teenage boy with a tattoo that links him to a conspiracy within the... Read More

"Abracadabra Whoopsie" is a magical picture book that teaches siblings to appreciate each other. In Adam Kargman’s picture book "Abracadabra Whoopsie", a struggle between siblings is embellished with magic, and a lesson emerges. Jordy... Read More

"The Last Surviving Dinosaur" is a warm exercise in family lore that highlights the joy of storytelling. Steven Joseph’s picture book The Last Surviving Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris is a playful, alternative creation story that... Read More

A technological utopia collapses into a prison of nightmares in Louis Greenberg’s science fiction thriller "Green Valley", a breakneck novel that explores what remains of human nature in a world of virtual reality. When society grows... Read More

In Agnes Gomillion’s gripping science fiction debut, "The Record Keeper", Arika is born in a postwar, resource-ravaged world and is plucked from her community’s nursery for a position of power. Arika may have a warm bed, clean... Read More

What happens when you combine UFOs, a vintage bottle of wine, and time travel? You get Antoine Laurain’s fantasy novel, "Vintage 1954". Four newfound friends—Hubert Larnaudie, a property manager; Julien, a bartender; Magalie, a... Read More

History is presented in lucid, lurid passages in "The Magdalene Malediction", a novel focused on an extraordinary woman who inspires devotion. Last in the medieval Ordeal by Fire trilogy, "The Magdalene Malediction" returns to the idea... Read More

Even a surveillance state can’t see everything. M. T. Hill’s "Zero Bomb" is set in a near-future England. Industries have been automated for ease, non-Christian religions have been abolished, people are digitally tracked, and many... Read More