Sharp edges and blurred lines abound in these graphic novels, many of which push the boundaries of their genre. Get a literary high with Doonesbury’s marijuana whisperer, or wax dangerous with some Dixie vixens. How about K.I.T.T. and... Read More
Dig Darwin. Down as he was with climbing the social ladder, albeit out of the primordial swamp. Make something of yourself, amoeba. Get the evolutionary process started. Bring on opposable thumbs, consciousness, wisdom and language, Plato... Read More
There are some facts that writers of all genres should know: about half of all mass-market novels sold are romantic fiction; rough figures indicate that only one in 50,000 would-be writers will sell a book, and only one writer in 100 who... Read More
A gifted girl takes to the skies, leaving her sister behind, in the richly imagined fantasy novel "Ardent Wings on Jealous Skies". In Z. Bennett Lorimer’s series-opening fantasy novel "Ardent Wings on Jealous Skies", two sisters with... Read More
Making Skeletons Dance / Peter Macsovszky /
John Minahane, translator /
Seagull Books /
Hardcover $29.00 (385pp) /
978-1-80309-414-4 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Peter Macsovszky’s philosophical novel Making Skeletons... Read More
The Engineer’s Apprentice is an exciting steampunk novel that blends science with magic to compelling effect. In J. R. Martin’s steampunk novel The Engineer’s Apprentice, an engineering protégé joins a skilled master for a... Read More
In the Neighborhood / Rocio Bonilla /
Charlesbridge /
Hardcover $17.99 (32pp) /
978-1-62354-360-0 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A neighborhood full of anthropomorphized animals (and one ogre) lives in a tenuous sort of... Read More