Raising a toast to mothers while offering practical tips, these essays provide a hard-won wisdom that psychology-based manuals often don’t. Nineties sitcom actress, singer, and Nashville mom Jenna von Oy returns in Situation Momedy: A... Read More

The Essential D. G. Jones has distilled the essence of the man’s work into a small, potent package. In the latest in its outstanding “Essential Poets” series, publisher The Porcupine’s Quill presents a concise but grand... Read More

This philosophical and winding work explores the nature of love in a time of technology. Yuriko Terasaka’s "The Arab King of My Heart and Soul" blurs genre and narrative conventions to tell an Aristotelian love story for the social... Read More

Nicely structured, well written, and authoritative, Cracking the Code is a must for any job seeker. “Qualified people aren’t getting the jobs they should because they don’t know how to interview,” writes Evan Pellett, whose... Read More

There is a heartbeat that drives The Ice Scream Man, making it more than a run-of-the-mill serial-killer thriller. "The Ice Scream Man" by J. F. Salmon is a wicked and enticing portrait of a little boy turned sadistic psychopath. Young... Read More

Fourteen-year-old Charlotte starts over with her mother in a new town in Washington’s Cascade Mountains—the same town where her estranged father, Larry, lives. While Charlotte attempts to train for the national snowboarding... Read More

Something strange is happening in the coastal town of Mist Falls. A purple, skull-shaped cloud appeared overhead a week ago, and now several mothers have disappeared, including twelve-year-old Nell Perkins’s mother, Rose. Nell and her... Read More

"Mars Away" delivers a compelling view of the near future, coupled with human drama and a big dose of interplanetary adventure. In Jeff Christopher Leonard’s ambitious science fiction thriller "Mars Away", a nightmare journey to the... Read More