Jennifer Clair distills years of teaching cooking classes into a useful manual for becoming a more rounded home cook. Each technique receives one chapter, with numerous recipes and illustrative photographs as helpful aids. What makes... Read More

Kathleen Y’Barbo’s "The Pirate Bride" is a lavish eighteenth-century romance that details the power of a young girl’s prayers. Set on the high seas, on an island, and in New Orleans, the story of a chance meeting between a young... Read More

"The Moby-Dick Blues" is Michael Strelow’s outstanding fictional tale of a developmentally disabled boy, a scholar, and an original Herman Melville manuscript. The Kraft family of Massachusetts, consisting of Mother, daughter Salome,... Read More

The history of NASA hinged on a set of predetermined intervals; two seconds were everything. So shows Don Eyles in "Sunburst and Luminary", his account of helping design the guidance systems that led Apollo missions to their successes.... Read More

Melanie S. Morrison’s gripping, revealing, and tragic "Murder on Shades Mountain" returns to 1931 and the Jim Crow South to cover the trial of Willie Peterson, blamed for the murders of Augusta Williams and her friend, Jennie Wood.... Read More

In Philip Donlay’s Speed the Dawn, a plausible catastrophe hits California, triggering a lightning pace of events. Billionaire philanthropist Donovan Nash has assembled the best scientific minds to tackle Earth’s environmental... Read More

Andreas Izquierdo’s "The Happiness Bureau" centers on a government employee, Albert Happy, whose tenderness may just redeem the role of bureaucracies. Happy is a decades-long employee of the Agency of Administrative Affairs; he runs... Read More

"Go Home!" is a capacious anthology that explores the concept of “home.” Its pieces come from both established and emerging writers of the Asian diaspora, and exist as “a door to step through.” Whether that door leads one closer... Read More