Andromeda Romano-Lax’s near-future novel, "Plum Rains", gracefully explores ethical questions around artificial intelligence with refreshing humanity. Anji already has worries aplenty when her employer, Itou, surprises their household... Read More

On its surface, "Mother of Invention" is a quasi-feminist speculative novel about reinventing the way that women give birth. In her forties and childless only partially by choice, Tessa, a biotech whiz, finds the prospect of shortening... Read More

"I Can Handle Him" is a bubbly, suspenseful, and satisfying romance. There are obstacles on the road to love—sometimes even deadly ones. So the young and hopeful characters of Debbie Lum’s romantic thriller "I Can Handle Him" learn... Read More

Restaurateur Amanda Ruben makes two generations of Ruben women who fell into cooking as a joyous career. Flipping through her tantalizing new cookbook, it’s easy to understand why she was propelled to parlay her recipes, with their... Read More

Ari and Itche have been friends since childhood, when they bonded over their feelings of ill-fittedness at summer camp. Now in their twenties, they’d like to add some sparkle to their lives, and if love is the way, so be it.... Read More

“California is a fable. A fantasy. A fiction,” Natalie Singer writes of her adopted home. “A metamorphosis.” So it was for the explorers and prospectors who first clambered over the Sierra to find it; so it remains for every wave... Read More

The history of NASA hinged on a set of predetermined intervals; two seconds were everything. So shows Don Eyles in "Sunburst and Luminary", his account of helping design the guidance systems that led Apollo missions to their successes.... Read More

"Birds of Wonder" is an absorbing, often disturbing mystery in which no one seems truly trustworthy by the end. When a beautiful and audacious teenager is found dead in a sleepy college town, everyone is under suspicion—from her foster... Read More