"Jamestown, Alaska" is fast-paced and effective, blending the absurd and the cruelly twisted aspects of the committee’s plan. In Frank Turner Hollon’s "Jamestown, Alaska", a novelist receives a cryptic invitation to become the... Read More

Froelich’s Ladder delights with its wit and imagination. Bristling with the bizarre, Jamie Duclos-Yourdon’s Froelich’s Ladder is a fantastical commentary on humanity’s interconnectedness. Wrapped in the trappings of American tall... Read More

Avery Cullins lives an unconventional life. His current “family” includes a live-in boyfriend and pet turtle, very different from the traditional Southern upbringing and family that he left so many years ago. But when Avery’s... Read More

Drawing inspiration and wisdom from the most treasured and iconic science fiction, as well as belovedly obscure and cult favorites in television, film, and literature, Stephen H. Segal and Valya Dudycz Lupescu reference Spock, Voltaire,... Read More

In this unusual offering by one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a nineteen-year-old has run away from his Tokyo home and is walking through an endless pine forest in a “fog of unsettling anxiety,” accompanied only by familiar... Read More

On January 4, 1960, Nobel Laureate, existentialist thinker, and dedicated pacifist Albert Camus died in a tragic, and highly suspicious, car accident. Camus was just forty-six years old. Berta Vias Mahou’s sensitive and probing novel... Read More

Offering a quick, comprehensive overview of the causes, effects, and controversy around global, human-generated climate change, this quick read is an ideal recommendation for young teens. Without dumbing down the relevant science and... Read More

This novel provides a valuable look back into an all-too-recent past that broad history tends to define by unthinkable acts of cruelty. "The Girl Called Princess Charlotte" by Gerard Shirar is a historical novel, courtroom mystery, and... Read More