Images of wealthy pros and stars from top-tier NCAA programs are replaced by the reality of injury-shortened careers, lives of chronic pain, and emotional distress in Robert W. Turner II’s "Not for Long". This eye-opening investigation... Read More

In a humorous and novel approach to potty training, Noah and his wife Naamah help the animals, young and old, get situated on the ark, paying special attention to the areas meant for eating, sleeping, playing, and, of course, answering... Read More

Myrtilla Miner was an important abolitionist who took the bold step of opening a school for African-American girls in Washington DC in the years leading up to the Civil War. Michael M. Greenburg introduces young readers to this often... Read More

A foreboding tale of longing for solace ignites the rural West Virginia setting of Meredith Sue Willis’s "Their Houses". Dinah and Grace are sisters whose childhood was marked by their father’s alcoholism and their mother’s... Read More

In Krista Van Dolzer’s dystopian novel, "Earth to Dad", the world has been razed by climate change, and humanity’s best option is to colonize Mars. But eleven-year-old Jameson O’Malley just wants his dad to return from the red... Read More

Cassandra Parkin’s The Winter’s Child is a gripping thriller from beginning to end, certain to chill and haunt. The novel traps us in the mind of Susannah Harper, a woman whose son, Joel, went missing five years prior and whose... Read More

Best known for the influence of her store, Mnasidika, and her association with Janis Joplin, Peggy Caserta has the devil’s own luck. Relentless and relentlessly unafraid to use all the advantages at her disposal, her story is a wild... Read More

In "Go West", a man seeks vengeance on the killer of his wife and child in a lawless western territory. Gunn begins his tale with some background: outlaws have pushed the government out of America’s western territories, and now rule... Read More