William Manchee’s Tarizon: The Liberator (Book One of the Tarizon Trilogy) (Top Publications, 978-1-929976-48-5) follows a civil war between a malevolent totalitarian world government and a fairly benevolent totalitarian world... Read More

In "Shifty" (Tricycle Press, 978-1-58246-257-8), Lynn E. Hazen’s title character (call him Soli, please) is a pragmatically adaptable foster child of fifteen who roams San Francisco in his guardian’s van without a driver’s license.... Read More

Christina Kilbourne’s "They Called Me Red" (Lobster Press, 978-1-897073-88-9) reveals what’s worse than a thirteen-year-old’s first job of washing gory slaughterhouse floors. When Devon’s father falls for Lily, a Vietnamese... Read More

"Child of All Nations", (Overlook Press, 978-1-59020-099-5) written by the exiled German novelist Irmgard Keun in 1938, was recently translated into English by Michael Hofmann. It follows the hotel-to-hotel nomadism of a wide-eyed girl... Read More

"Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra" by Obert Skye (Shadow Mountain, 978-1-59038-963-8) is the fourth installment in a fantasy series projected to be the basis of a movie in 2009. It’s set in “Foo,” a land where dreams are... Read More

“If I could only fly / I’d bid this place good-bye / To come and be with you / But I can hardly stand / Got nowhere to run / Another sinkin’ sun / And one more lonely night.” These words from country music singer and songwriter... Read More

Rick Fallon’s wife always preferred the hum and scurrying activity of the city. Now recently divorced, he wants to recapture what he loves: silence. What better place to find solitude than a hiking excursion through Death Valley. The... Read More

Every confectionary artist’s dream is to have people ask admiringly, “Who made this cake?” Readers will surely be surprised at the answer provided in this colorful book. The opening endpapers show more one hundred tiny people... Read More