Well-drawn settings and relatable, engaging characters bring realism and clarity to an intelligent novel with an important message for teens and adults. For college senior Matt Derby, a visit to a long-lost childhood friend and... Read More

This important work offers much for a general, concerned audience, as well as for specialists charged with combating terrorism. Jeffrey Simon’s chilling and compelling account of the rise of lone-wolf terrorism proves prescient, as the... Read More

Debut author creates a meticulously crafted story of damnation and redemption. Jessie Van Eerden’s debut novel follows the Lemleys, a West Virginia family once called upon to prophecy for God, but who seem to have fallen from grace.... Read More

Swedish writer Inger Frimansson is back with a new thriller, "The Cat Did Not Die". After absorbing this psychological descent into madness you may want to rethink how private that summer cottage is. You may even hide your ax. "The Cat... Read More

The town of Tintown is in trouble, even though the hurrying and scurrying rats who live there don’t seem to notice. For years they have consumed and polluted without thought, and now Tintown, as authors Linda Mason Hunter and Suzanne... Read More

The enduring lesson of all wars, reinforced in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that tours of duty do not end with the return home. Indeed, as Stuart Nicholls shows in this compelling fictional memoir, home may no... Read More

Pain seems pretty straightforward in most situations: injure some part of the body and it will complain bothersomely until it has a chance to heal. But why does an ailing heart sometimes create shoulder pain? How do amputees experience... Read More

Rosenthal’s latest book of magical journalism—a term for writing that is “informed by ideas that are impossible to believe and overdetermined by the conviction that those are the best kind”—explores contemporary Los Angeles and... Read More