An Iranian scientist, whose accomplishments include a presidential award and working for NASA, shares her enticing story. In "The Sky Detective", author Azadeh Tabazadeh tells an enticing story of growing up in, and escaping, Iran during... Read More

With diagrams, health tips, and social analysis, this book more than succeeds in its goal of promoting body-positive attitudes in all women. "Girl Sex 101"—jauntily written by queer author and sex-workshop presenter Allison Moon, and... Read More

The journal format of this spare novel allows for an in-depth examination of the daily grief experienced after a friend’s suicide. "When Kacey Left", an epistolary novel, traces the aftermath of teen suicide. Dawn Green’s succinct... Read More

Psychological as well as physical horror elevates this sci-fi thriller to a disturbingly exciting level. Mo Rees, employee of the BathyTech mining company, gets the adventure he always craved when the dashing scientist Armin Savage-Hall... Read More

This sci-fi thriller set in Iraq is well paced and riveting. Michael R. Nardo’s The Beginning, an action-packed story of alien contact, seethes with government cover-ups and gun battles in a remote region of Iraq. When lowing, winged... Read More

What brand of privileged namby-pambiness will we get out of the twenty-something-year-old Theodore Roosevelt’s diary, he of Harvard and Columbia and the just-another-night-at-the-ball trappings of great family wealth? Here’s a taste... Read More

Most of the authors who wrote any of the 15,000+ Lincoln books in existence would know immediately the full and proper name of the Billy in the title of this historical novel. He was William Herndon, who was the sixteenth president’s... Read More

Exactly fourteen lines, each of five-foot iambics—ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM—such is life for a sonnet, and Rebecca Foust strings more than eighty together in this biting, rhythmically haunting collection. Foust’s poems... Read More