A beautiful high school student, Charlotte, disappears from a Halloween party in L. C. Warman’s "The Last Real Girl", which gradually unveils the lakeside town that bred her. An enticing cast of suspects emerges as Reese, Charlotte’s... Read More

As satisfying as it is suspenseful, Natalie Murray’s "Emmie and the Tudor King" presents itself as a young adult romance and tiptoes into mystery and action genres, too. When eighteen-year-old Emmeline Grace is assigned to write a... Read More

"Stealing Home" is a poignant memoir about the intersections of sports and fatherhood. Former sportswriter Ron Seybold’s affecting memoir "Stealing Home" is about using sports to break negative family cycles and become a better father.... Read More

"Global Dawn" starts off a conspiracy thriller series with an engaging hero facing global stakes. In W. B. Thompson’s frenetic thriller "Global Dawn", a warrior grapples with fatherhood as the world races toward annihilation. In 1960,... Read More

Brian Adams’s charming and heartfelt young adult novel "Offline" explores the harm that comes with trading the real world for an online one. Meagan has a real problem. She’s not addicted to drugs or alcohol or gambling, but she... Read More

"Blossoms" is a straightforward and youthful collection of poems. Sixteen-year-old poet Hridam Saha’s "Blossoms" was written to delight young readers and collects both his earliest poems and his current ones. Direct and accessible, the... Read More

Bright pictures and an inventive story make "My Snorkeling Days" an involving tale for young readers. In Jacqueline Messer’s colorful picture book "My Snorkeling Days", a young boy discovers that families can live anywhere, even under... Read More

The Girl With the Whispering Shadow is a strong, sensitive fantasy novel about coming of age and coming into your own natural-born powers. Filled with fanciful flourishes, "The Girl with the Whispering Shadow" is the second volume of the... Read More