When nine-year-old Megan mysteriously disappears, her older brother, Noah, sets out on a rescue mission. His only clues are a story Megan told before her disappearance and a tattered page of her journal left on Noah’s pillow by a... Read More

Wine, in its many flavors and forms, is one of the world’s most popular beverages. But its main ingredient, grapes, is cultivated using at least seventeen different insecticides, pesticides, and fumigants—many of which contain... Read More

It is rare to find a book with a half-dead protagonist. Tyler Leto is a corrupt adulterous and drug-abusing businessman who has become caught between life and Hell in "Grendel" Ken Brosky’s first novel. After a realistically depicted... Read More

Like counting rings on a tree stump, looking at a cross section of a black bear’s tooth will reveal its age. A 200-pound black bear begins life at a mere of a pound, and can be brown, cinnamon, blue-gray, or even white. Children... Read More

An ominous voice on law student Kayla Beck’s cell phone offers her a horrible choice: If Kayla doesn’t try to rescue a kidnapped woman, the chained woman will starve to death — or take another way out with the razor blade provided... Read More

The United States has never seen a newspaper like South Africa’s Guardian, nor has it had the need for one. The Guardian was a paper serving workers whose paltry wages offered them little more than the slender hope of surviving from... Read More

Little Eddie elephant is excited when his cousins arrive to help him celebrate his birthday. He and his cousin Sam have a surprise that’s sure to win them first prize in the party’s mud castle contest. But Eddie’s fun is... Read More

“Wandering Tattler, Timberdoodle, Teal. Nutcracker, Gnatcatcher, are these real?” the author asks. Only a bird lover would be able to answer this question confidently, but even those whose avian inventories are limited to blue jays... Read More