Atmospheric from the start, "The Midwife" by Lily Knight opens in an old mining town in the center of the island of Sicily, an area that “even on horseback” is difficult to reach. There, in the late 1800s, the poor are desperate, the... Read More

Civil War fiction from a Southern perspective will always find legions of readers among history buffs and battle reenactors. However, such novels risk obscuring the unsavory aspects of Southern culture in favor of continuing reverence... Read More

Simple isn’t always easy to pull off; to stand the test of time, a board book needs to have a straightforward message, wide appeal, and entertaining pictures that are fun to look at over and over again. Luckily, John Hutton and Andrea... Read More

In this odd and often repetitive collection of journal entries, e-mails, letters to the editor, midnight scribblings, disjointed poems, badly rhymed limericks, and muddled diary entries, Philip Fletcher chronicles the physical, mental,... Read More

James Connor’s "I, Dwayne Kleber" offers readers a snapshot of a young teenager growing up in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. When his mother becomes pregnant and quits her job, it’s up to Dwayne and his twin brother, Reggie, to... Read More

In "Surfing Summers", Turk and Kenny decide early in the beach season that this is the summer they will ride the waves on real surfboards. Due to three drownings in Seagrove the year before, the fourteen-year-old best friends have been... Read More

A genetically engineered, reproductive monster is the perfect catalyst for global mayhem—a time-tested story that rarely disappoints readers. "The Immune" is yet another spin on “run for your life before it eats you.” Readers who... Read More

Gertrude Stein said, “Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.” In "Little Comrades", the author doesn’t fancy she had an unhappy childhood; she did. From birth, Laurie Lewis and her older brother were... Read More