In Nicole M. Wolverton’s hair-raising thriller "A Misfortune of Lake Monsters", a teenager who fakes cryptid sightings confronts a monster from her nightmares. Lemon knows that Old Lucy isn’t real. Her family has been responsible for... Read More

Influenced by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Zackary Vernon’s novel "Our Bodies Electric" is a story of self-discovery set on Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, in the early 1990s. The book begins the summer before sixth grade, when... Read More

Questions abound about an amnesia-afflicted space-colonizing community that holds a new girl at its margins in the exciting science fiction novel "Nabukko". In K. R. Gadeken’s enticing science fiction novel "Nabukko", a space traveler... Read More

An affecting graphic novel about political persecution in the midst of a civil war, "Justice" captures a perilous period well. A family tries to survive the turmoil of war in Ram Khatri’s historical graphic novel "Justice". Tara was a... Read More

A knowledgeable heroine trains a prophesied hero to face down an unrelenting curse in the thrilling fantasy novel "The Chosen One". A heroic warrior spreads a message of loving-kindness in Ashley LeBlanc’s fantasy novel "The Chosen... Read More

In Chad Corrie’s dystopian novel "As the Sparrow Flies", people fight extinction in the face of a religious war. Elliott is a squire who aspires to knighthood. He hopes to join an army that believes Pyre is the main deity. He thinks... Read More

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More

Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified.... Read More