“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” So says the Duchess in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It’s an appropriate guideline for readers of Richard Sharkey’s "The Tales of the Walrus", with... Read More

The business of Hollywood can be brutal. Diana Gould’s first novel, "Coldwater", gives readers a glimpse into the high-stakes world of network television, corporate mergers, and Hollywood backroom deals. Down-on-her-luck heroine Brett... Read More

Matt Monroe sees glowing red lights in the sky and creatures resembling Bigfoot running across the fields. And that’s just the beginning of strange things that will happen to the fourteen-year-old who finds himself in a mystical world... Read More

“I touched myself while I read your story,” Marissa admits to Kyle. Playful readers might find themselves in the same situation with "Sugar Baby", by Aaron Powell. Kyle, a sexy marine, is very much in love with his wife, Brittney.... Read More

The universe of "Hideous Exuberance", the new novel by Stephen C. Bird, is one of demented imagination and verve. It can also be exhausting. The work lies somewhere between Harry Potter burlesque and Tolkien satire, with doses of... Read More

A crisply written novel, "What Happened to Tasha Blue?" charts the response of family, friends, and neighbors after the title character, a high-school student, vanishes from the deserted outskirts of a working-class New Mexico town in... Read More

Insightful letters and annotated editing work together to reveal the challenges and joys of expatriate life in Saudi Arabia. In Thank God It’s Wednesday: An American Family in Saudi Arabia, Maralyn G. Doyle relays the culture shock she... Read More

Books in which supernatural beings thrive among unwitting humans remain quite popular. Imagine a setting in which these otherworldly creatures, known as “zots” in Roxane Bland’s debut novel "The Underground", fear exposure by... Read More