Haddaway stays tightly focused on characters who deal with tragedy in a way that feels real. Richard Haddaway’s "A Little Something" opens with a random and seemingly minor accident. While waiting on deck at his youth baseball game,... Read More

A tale of murder and plastic surgery told with crisp, memorable dialogue. "Elective Procedures", by Merry Jones, combines many familiar aspects of a pulp mystery novel—an exotic locale, multiple suspected killers, the protagonist... Read More

Warm reflections on the way our emotions respond to interactions with wild animals and nature. In the thirty-eight essays that make up "Zooburbia", the Bay Area home of nature writer Tai Moses serves as a constant source of interaction... Read More

Sharing moving anecdotes about a juvenile detention center library, Zeman offers insight into literacy, society, and growing up. As a librarian at a jail for juvenile offenders, Marybeth Zeman has collected anecdotes from her years of... Read More

This fast-paced thriller is full of danger and psychological action. D. B. Carew’s "The Killer Trail" begins as a straightforward thriller about a man who is dragged into a dangerous situation through unfortunate timing and who winds... Read More

An intimate and real portrayal of memory loss tells the story of an imperfect love maintained through mutual caretaking. Brenda Webster’s novel "After Auschwitz" is subtitled “A Love Story,” and it is often a melancholy one.... Read More

Cynical stories put a fresh twist on the Aesop fable tradition. The enjoyable "Otherwise Fables" collects three works by Oscar Mandel. It combines forty-six short fables collectively named “The Gobble-Up Stories,” along with two... Read More

Both a personal and a political manifesto, this book analyzes the use of natural resources, with thorough citation. In "Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good", Canadian author and activist Heather Menzies examines the idea of... Read More