In West Camel’s "Attend", something mythic lingers just below the surface of Deptford, England, that will bind together three lives at loose ends. A recovering drug addict, middle-aged Anne has moved home to face her family, sobriety,... Read More

Vanda Symon introduces a cheeky, brave new heroine in "Overkill", the first in her Sam Shephard series of mysteries set in New Zealand. When Sam, the lone officer in tiny Mataura, is called in to investigate a missing person case, she... Read More

Set in a time and place when humans have already nearly destroyed the Earth once, Alex Lyttle’s "The Rise of Winter" is a richly imagined middle grade fantasy about a young girl who joins with a select group of animals to protect the... Read More

Matthew Budman’s "Book Collecting Now" is both an enthusiastic, clear-eyed look at book collecting in the digital age and an info-rich primer for those who want to begin, expand, or refocus their collections. Despite predictions, print... Read More

"And Away We Go" is a fun middle grade story of pets on the move. In Ruby Lewis’s lighthearted middle grade adventure "And Away We Go", the focus is on three pets and their unpredictable keeper. Told through the perspective of Mr. Theo... Read More

Searing nonfiction and poetry pieces are collected in "Feminine Rising", an anthology presented in the wake of #MeToo that looks back through decades, revealing how little, and how much, has changed. Selections gather under seven themes,... Read More

In "Extraordinary Birds", a troubled young foster girl who is obsessed with birds and the possibility that she may one day fly comes to terms with her past and learns what it means to find a place to call home. Eleven-year-old December... Read More

In Devri Walls’s gritty young adult fantasy Venators: Promises Forged, three teens settle into a magical world and face life-or-death circumstances. Rune, her brother Ryker, and her friend Grey have entered the fae world of Eon through... Read More