Job was born just in time to watch the promise of the former United States fade definitively away. Kirk Kjeldsen’s darkly realistic postapocalyptic novel "East" begins in the small Oregon town where Job grew up—where the mines lie... Read More

Cutting satire and humorous jeremiads expose the hypocrisies of keeping up with the Joneses in Erlend Loe’s novel "Doppler". After his father dies, Andreas Doppler suffers a breakdown, drops out of society, and goes to live in a tent... Read More

Family tragedies and new opportunities play against each other in "Beyond the Moon and the Heartache Too", a novella about growing up and growing past artificial limits. Anne Hutcheson’s novella "Beyond the Moon and the Heartache Too"... Read More

In Jaco Jacobs’s "A Good Night for Shooting Zombies", Martin’s life is shattered the day his father is killed in a car accident. Two years later, his normally gregarious ex-actress mother is housebound, his sister is always out with... Read More

Surprising and strange, "The Helium Egg" is a colorful picture book whose suspense leads somewhere unexpected. E. Dorinda Shelley and Eleanor A. Hutton’s boldly colorful picture book "The Helium Egg" shows how a community of farm... Read More

This conceptually unique story explores the fantastical origins of an everyday feature of a child’s house. E. Dorinda Shelley’s "The Helium Table" is a fantastical children’s book that explores the downsides of a tidy home.... Read More

"The Grove" is an entertaining middle grade mystery set in an era of adolescent freedom. Robert John Percy’s middle grade mystery novel "The Grove" is full of friendship and adventure, capturing a period when preteens had free rein in... Read More

"Helium Heels" is a farm-centered picture book that takes unusual risks. Ghostly pranksters bring a touch of danger in E. Dorinda Shelley’s eccentric picture book "Helium Heels". With folk art by Eleanor A. Hutton, this day at the farm... Read More