William Manchee’s Tarizon: The Liberator (Book One of the Tarizon Trilogy) (Top Publications, 978-1-929976-48-5) follows a civil war between a malevolent totalitarian world government and a fairly benevolent totalitarian world... Read More

In "Shifty" (Tricycle Press, 978-1-58246-257-8), Lynn E. Hazen’s title character (call him Soli, please) is a pragmatically adaptable foster child of fifteen who roams San Francisco in his guardian’s van without a driver’s license.... Read More

"Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra" by Obert Skye (Shadow Mountain, 978-1-59038-963-8) is the fourth installment in a fantasy series projected to be the basis of a movie in 2009. It’s set in “Foo,” a land where dreams are... Read More

Every confectionary artist’s dream is to have people ask admiringly, “Who made this cake?” Readers will surely be surprised at the answer provided in this colorful book. The opening endpapers show more one hundred tiny people... Read More

“On the long, hairpinned climb…” begins Dodd, taking readers with her a journey through the “animate” world by way of her “mind’s eye.” With personal passion, she explores the tops of mesas, the depths of caves, and the... Read More

Impressive is the debut of David Carnoy with the surprisingly complex and sophisticated "Knife Music" (ParkMadison Press, 978-0-615-24325-2). Its a combination legal/medical novel, so neatly plotted it seems the first-timer might have... Read More

This book is said to read like a novel, and so it does. "The Red Canoe" is a narrative of Handlers marriage, and we learn to love and follow her characters through the pages of their journey towards understanding. This is definitely... Read More

World War II and its aftermath led to one of the most massive ethnic cleansings in Western history: Nazi Germany deported and killed millions of Jews and the Soviet Union expelled millions more ethnic Germans from eastern countries. But... Read More