The winner of the Indie Excellence Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction steers a sure course away from the wreckage-strewn shoals common to the genre delivering a well-conceptualized story which seems to reflect real history yet... Read More

To the unhappy inevitability of death and taxes should be added one more grim reality: the misery of the teen years. Even in a society that is as woman-supportive as Minoan Crete, being a teenage girl just plain hurts. The author is an... Read More

By transporting a nineteen-year-old Floridian in 1975 to the hard life of a Greek island, Benedict has found a potential metaphor for feminist awakening. Joyce is swept away from the supermarket and her staid American Family by a Greek... Read More

“It will have a cross on it somewhere, and then there can be no doubt, no discussion, that this is and always will be the House of the Living God. Say Amen, somebody.” So writes Rick Bragg in his introduction to Wooden Churches. This... Read More

In the charming picture book "Blueberry and Jam", animal friends make amazing discoveries across the state and as close as in their own backyards. In Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino’s edifying picture book "Blueberry and Jam", cat and mouse... Read More

Tennyson’s Big Secret is a whimsical, high-energy picture book that invites its audience on a quest to learn what a sweet boy’s hidden talent is. A boy withholds a surprising truth until the final pages of A. H. Benjamin’s picture... Read More

"The Greatest" is nostalgic about childhood and concerned with multigenerational love. Mari Jane Hillyer’s sincere picture book "The Greatest" explores a favored pastime that leads to appreciation for a parent’s encouragement. A boy... Read More

"Gracie Becomes a Rock Star" jumps from a clever play on words into an easygoing family story. In Mazie H. Leftwich’s lighthearted and amusing picture book "Gracie Becomes a Rock Star", a girl transforms her family picnic by... Read More