An auditor investigates suspicious records at a company to which she has a personal connection in the crime novel "Paper Chase". In Hugh Alexander’s intriguing thriller "Paper Chase", an auditor seeks to make sense of missing and... Read More

Spreckle, a dragon hatched near chickens, loves her life on the farm, with one notable exception: the snacks are terrible. Tired of dried corn and slugs, Spreckle branches out—to hay, to pig slop, even to ice cream—but nothing hits... Read More

Richly pigmented watercolor illustrations make this story of friendship seem plucked from a dream. Molly attempts to teach her friends Olive and Dexter how to play her favorite game, but their hiding leaves something to be desired. After... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death... Read More

Cat loves to go on adventures, but returning to his empty jungle bungalow grows lonely. He finds a friend in Fish, but as Fish shares her own heartaches, Cat is faced with a choice between keeping his friend and making her happy. An... Read More

In Jente Posthuma’s bittersweet novel What I’d Rather Not Think About, a woman who is bereft after her twin brother’s suicide searches to understand his mental illness. The fraternal twins at the center of the story have peculiar... Read More

In Norman Lock’s historical novel "The Ice Harp", Ralph Waldo Emerson struggles with encroaching dementia and the incontrovertible realities of aging. In 1879, Emerson is seventy-six and troubled. Once heralded as the Sage of Concord,... Read More

A princess and a disgraced former knight find love despite dark magic, family secrets, and tragedy in the graphic novel "Darkly She Goes". Islen is a beautiful princess trapped in a foreboding castle full of monsters. When Arzhur is... Read More