Through a young tailless dog named Sagebrush, children will see that even they can do their small part to protect Mother Nature. A variety of important human themes come together beautifully in Joni Franks’s Corky Tails: Tales of a... Read More

The novel offers doses of thrills, intrigue, oddball characters, and a splash of romance for those who like their fiction weird. An ironic moment of serendipity brings two strange people together in "The Professor and the Suicide Girl",... Read More

This is an important book from a uniquely informed source on a critical and timely topic. "Beyond Snowden", written by Timothy H. Edgar, a civil liberties lawyer who had a ringside view of development of government surveillance programs,... Read More

The Right Hand of God offers a broad survey of the theological ideas working behind the scenes of world culture and history. Nelda Moffatt’s The Right Hand of God is a systematic and extended theological exploration of God’s work in... Read More

When "After the Bloom" opens, Rita Takemitsu is, once again, cruising the streets looking for her mother, Lily. But as time passes with no sign of Lily, a new urgency infuses the old familiarity. Fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian... Read More

Can love conquer all? That is the question addressed in "Loving vs. Virginia", a novel told in alternating perspectives. Two lovers of different races struggle to achieve the right to wed in a society that may not be ready to accept... Read More

Nautical twists abound as "King Daniel" excites with its page-turning thrills and familial revelations. Against a colorful backdrop of pirates, family secrets, and intrigue, Susan Wolf Johnson’s "King Daniel" shines as a literary... Read More

"The Beast Side" harnesses narrative and personal voice to uproot America’s bloody culture of racism. The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America, by D. Watkins, is a personal, as well as historical and sociological look... Read More