The Canadian borderlands, and their lakes, rivers, and portages, are rendered with a journalistic eye for detail. Kirk Landers’s "Alone on the Shield" is an adventure story mixed with a love affair set deep in the Canadian wilderness.... Read More

Silverberg’s science fiction stands head and shoulders above other works in the genre. The short stories in Robert Silverberg’s "First-Person Singularities" are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining. All eighteen pieces are... Read More

Ronin’s is a series that holds fast to the notion of true love and the classic ideal of a rescuer. "Always Red" hinges on the idea of love conquering all and being worth any cost. Veronica, called Red, has just had a devastating... Read More

Brutal honesty wins out over artifice in this story of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sometimes, despite the best preparations we make: levees break, defenses fall. Such vulnerabilities are an overarching theme of C. Morgan... Read More

This deliberate and meticulous biography chronicles the life of a remarkable food writer whose self-sufficiency and love of nature placed her ahead of her time. Patience Gray, the author of the classic Honey from a Weed, lived off the... Read More

Addressing both climate change helplessness and the meaning of everyday life, this book posits a personal, positive approach to environmental mindfulness. "Being the Change" approaches climate change from a fundamentally different... Read More

Dr. Maria Martinez knows a few things about guilt. Convicted of a murder she doesn’t remember, Maria grapples with her slippery past, in "The Killing Files", the second book in the Project Trilogy. Although experience has taught her... Read More

A haunting tale rife with gruesome murders and secrets, "Path into Darkness" shines. In Lisa Alber’s "Path into Darkness", residents of an Irish county gather for a festival, but their ghastly past is about to come to light. The... Read More