Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, by Bobbie Malone, (University of Oklahoma Press) is our 2016 Nonfiction Book of the Year. From erotic poetry that fuels the flames of passion to instructions on how to build a nuclear weapon, books perform... Read More
House of Rougeaux / Jenny Jaeckel /
Raincloud Press /
Hardcover $26.95 (308pp) /
978-1-941203-24-8 / On a Martinique sugar plantation near the end of the eighteenth century, sister and brother Abeje and Adunbi are the first... Read More
This week, we’re thrilled to spend some time with Renée Watson, A-List poet and author of books for children and young adults, including the recently released Some Places More Than Others. Most notably, she won a Newbery Honor and... Read More
Raven Grimassi first came into contact with the Rose and Thorn Path of Witchery—an expression of the Greenwood Realm—through conversations with Old World Witches. Later, direct contact with the spirits of plants and the deep places... Read More
A young man with autism falls for a hooker in this heartfelt, out-of-the-ordinary romance. In Allen Wolf’s novel "Hooked" (adapted from his award-winning screenplay), a romantic twentysomething fails to spot that his new girlfriend is... Read More
If fiction is moved forward by getting its characters into deeper and deeper trouble, then George Rabasa’s latest novel is a speedy little car, following the misadventures of two lovable misfits. Thirteen-year-old Adam Webb falls in... Read More
Characters from Hollywood’s past come back to Technicolor life in this fast-paced, well-crafted mystery. Everybody Wants an Oscar, the fourth book in Peter S. Fischer’s The Hollywood Murder Mysteries series, is another hard-boiled... Read More
Eerie stories harkening back to the grand old tales of The Twilight Zone will thrill as they entertain. With his latest book, Peter Grandbois has offered two retellings of classic movies, bringing new twists to each. In the first... Read More