"The Best of Adventure" is full of intrigue, action, mystery, danger, and daring—and this is just the first volume! The pulp magazine Adventure started 100 years ago. It became renowned for publishing top authors of the day, including... Read More

Lisa Gitlin’s story of first love has all the passion, drama, and roller-coaster ups and downs that most writings on the topic have, but with a difference—Gitlin’s heroine, Joanna Kane, is a Jewish lesbian writer who in her own... Read More

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars,” writer Garrison Keillor said about the imaginary town Lake Wobegon, a place seemingly protected from politics, progress, and the unpleasantness of the rest of the... Read More

Robert Olmstead is the author of the critically acclaimed Coal Black Horse. His latest novel "Far Bright Star" begins in 1916 when Napoleon Childs a war-hardened cavalryman guides a group of untried soldiers into the mountains of Mexico... Read More

Biotechnology has run amok, and cloned human remains have been found in an otherwise empty city. An uneasy political situation threatens to erupt into violence, perhaps even another war, over a precious source of fuel. Over all this... Read More

The best barometer to appreciating the long, strange road trip of Eddie & Bella may be gauged from its wake of patchouli oil that is Bella’s oft-remarked signature scent. (Eddie’s bottled essence would mix unleaded gasoline,... Read More

Kakade launches her young adult mystery series with the traditional “let’s get to know everyone” plot. Almost fourteen year-old Bethany can’t believe her mother has hired a babysitter for her in the guise of a math tutor. Okay,... Read More

It’s like Southern Comfort. It sneaks up on you. Like that first sip of the slow-to-kick-in drink, Cracks begins innocently enough as a sweet-tasting story of sisterhood in a boarding school in South Africa. The kind of school with a... Read More