Ultimately a story of good versus evil, Temples is excellent at testing the boundaries of just what makes one good. Gripping, bold, and filled with unforgettable action sequences, Catlorian II: Temples by R. L. Pool is a well-paced,... Read More

"A Family of Strangers" is truly an epic tale of love and friendship, mystery and adventure, danger and suspense. Kathleen Flanagan Rollins’s "A Family of Strangers" is an epic tale set in Northern Spain fourteen thousand years ago.... Read More

With quirky yet compelling intelligence, "Queen of Spades" creates its own small, interconnected universe. Michael Shou-Yung Shum’s entrancing "Queen of Spades" enters the fictional realm of the Royal Casino, located on the outskirts... Read More

This is a beautifully written ode to the inherent magic of books and reading. Books are portals to other worlds. In "The Wild Book", a young boy learns about the power of stories when he explores his uncle’s enchanted library of... Read More

Inuit culture is presented as complex and fascinating. "Those Who Run in the Sky" is the heartrending and riveting story of a young Inuit boy named Pitu, one of the best hunters in his village with aspirations to be a great leader and... Read More

Kellie Wells seems never to have met a sentence she couldn’t enhance, a list she couldn’t extend, or a story she couldn’t send airborne. The fifteen contemporary fables of underdogs, oddballs, and misanthropes in Kellie Wells’s... Read More

Bulkin’s enormous imagination is on full display here: trippy, nightmarish, and unforgettable. Nadia Bulkin’s thirteen stories are as diverse in their themes as they are in their settings, yet they piece together excellently to... Read More

Though draped in the mythic, the novel’s blood and bones are thoroughly and relatably human. The otherworldly and the mundane collide in Shawn Smucker’s "The Day the Angels Fell", a humanizing tale of cosmic proportions. When death... Read More