Oaths in blood, bombs, mystery, family strife, discrimination, boyhood bonds—individually they each create an interesting theme for a middle-grade novel. Mix them all together and the end result is "Time Bomb". Set in post-war Britain... Read More

Early on an April morning in 1903, the mountain moved. During its ninety-second shake, Turtle Mountain sent ninety million tons of limestone roaring into the valley below, the site of a small Canadian mining town. Miners were trapped... Read More

When parents send a check in the mail or donate online to their favorite charity, it usually doesn’t occur to them to share their act of charitable giving with their children. This author, who started writing this book when she was... Read More

Any day now Jacob and Gabriel Stein will be big brothers! The yearlong adoption process has finally come to a fruitful end. “Is today the day?” they wonder, fully aware that their mother’s suitcase has been packed for several weeks... Read More

While playing on the banks of the Clark Fork River in Montana, ten-year-old Gray Dausman uncovers a rotting skeleton, sparking a murder investigation by Kip Edelson, Mineral County’s new sheriff. As he searches to identify the victim... Read More

“Balanchine possessed a kind of multi-dimensional alertness that included the immediate phrase of music and the spatial design of the sequence he was envisioning,” writes the author, “but also an uncanny awareness of the physical... Read More

Mad poets. Gay men. Hilarious alcoholics … They all worked at Pickwick and would soon become my extended family. In this humorous and moving memoir, the author charts her journey from summer clerk at the legendary Pickwick Bookshop in... Read More

The 2006 winner of the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award, this debut collection mines a neglected niche of literary territory—working-class Eastern Kentucky—in much the same way that Alice Munro explored rural Canada, with the... Read More