Intelligent, polished, and thoroughly readable, "Tiger Pelt" is a story of deprivations and human endurance that is beyond heroic. A compassionate, sensitive story of hardship and endurance, courage and triumph, Annabelle Kim’s "Tiger... Read More

This perceptive and sensitive novel is an inspirational reminder that the approval that matters most comes from within. Kimberly Cooper Griffin examines how people struggle to find fulfillment in her powerful debut, "Life in High Def".... Read More

This wonderful wartime story set in a fascinating era is equal parts action and romance. The South is torn by the Civil War in "Prairie Dog Town", a story punctuated by shells blasting and the continual threat of Union invasion. This is... Read More

Conflicts with alien races are given enormous depth in this engrossingly written science fiction novel. This second installment in the thrilling young adult science fiction series H.A.L.F. finds teens Erika, Jack, and Tex embroiled in... Read More

Allynn Riggs has created a world both familiar and strange, and is in good company with the best science fiction and fantasy. Allynn Riggs’s "The Blood" mixes science fiction and fantasy to good effect in a tale laced with humor,... Read More

Newell has created a fascinating and sensual matriarchal sea world. Genetic piracy on the Fenria high seas leads to an accidental soulmate connection in Lizzie Newell’s science fiction romp, The Fisherman and the Sperm Thief. Inventive... Read More

This alternate history of WWII is also a reflection on modern-day economic and social missteps. There’s no better villain than Hitler around whom to spin an alternate history novel, but Andrew Blencowe plays a trick on mad Adolf even... Read More

Caitlin Hicks begins this story of tradition and redemption in the months leading up to Kennedy’s assassination, when all manner of possibilities seemed open to good little Catholic girls. Ensconced in the middle of a noisy Irish... Read More