Josef Bastian’s Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook is a polished, thoroughly engaging fantasy for tweens and young adults. Aaron Anderson seems ordinary in every way—until he learns he’s been chosen to succeed his grandfather Pap... Read More

Robinson has a talent for natural-sounding dialogue in this humorous crime caper. Careless isn’t exactly an ideal name for a private detective, but when the sleuth has Dudley the hound as a sidekick, it’s certain that crime-solving... 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

V’Let and D’Las M’Kaz are orphaned twins, the last survivors of the destruction of their planet Loora. Held in check by a brutal intergalactic council, these twin Galaxy Killers unwillingly annihilate worlds of sentient beings that... Read More

“Political reform came first. Remember what a bind we were in during the first decade of the millennium?” the author writes. “The United States was bogged down in two nasty wars, unhinged by terrorism, and hardly able to deal with... Read More

"Oisin" first in a sci-fi series by Leo Cabral begins on the edge of fiction. Earth prepares excitedly as astronauts head to a moon research station to seek out extraterrestrial life. Then everything turns surreal when the hapless... Read More

When it first happened, she was shocked. When it happened again, she decided maybe that was just the way she wrote. Maybe all writers write through to strong characters, tricky plots, a scary detail. Maybe a writing room made to resemble... Read More