Fans of the Mercy Watson easy chapter series will delight in this charming origin tale about how a wee piglet fell into the very ordinary lives of Mr. and Mrs. Watson, completing their family in an extraordinary way. Sunny illustrations... Read More

There are two kinds of people in the moody, magical world of "Apprentice Needed": those who are opposed to imagination, and those who understand what a powerful force it can be. The second novel in the Wizard for Hire series revisits the... Read More

Even sinister cults need accountants. "Soul Remains", the second book in the Terribly Serious Darkness series by Sam Hooker, finds Sloot neck-deep in necromantic trouble. This whimsical, wry novel sends Sloot deeper into a magical world... Read More

In his book "Hangdog Days", Jeff Smoot chronicles the controversial method of “hangdogging” a climbing route and the debate that raged during the 1980s in climbing circles about this method. Hangdogging is a rock climbing slang word... Read More

Ashley Poston is back with "The Princess and the Fangirl", another book set in the Geekerella universe of ExcelsiCon. Jessica Stone plays Princess Amara in Starfield, which has a huge fan following. When her character is killed off,... Read More

Deborah Fleming’s "Resurrection of the Wild" celebrates and explore’s Ohio’s ecology and resources. The book’s perspective is personal—Fleming is an Ohio native. She traces her relationship with the state and its natural... Read More

In the aftermath of Nowhere, but still carrying the legacy of the Unnamed with them, Eddy, Ina, Alice, and the rest of the residents who survived the rapacious and dictatorial Lion are left with one overarching, reinforced truth: a... Read More

Jessica Handler’s based-in-truth historical novel "The Magnetic Girl" is all atmosphere and electricity. It centers on Lulu, the daughter of a Civil War defector and the sister of Leo, whose developmental challenges she feels... Read More