In Trang Thanh Tran’s horror novel "She Is a Haunting", a woman discovers that the house her father is restoring is haunted. Jade and her sister Lily travel to Vietnam to spend the summer with their estranged father. Jade has ulterior... Read More

In response to years of clear social upheaval in the United States, from renewed fights for social justice to new threats of authoritarianism, a new, diverse set of comedy voices are using humor in their activism. Caty Borum chronicles... Read More

In Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo’s novel "The Roan Stallion", a thirteen-year-old hopes to tame a wild horse. Alfred Swallow watches his aging grandfather cut the scope of his farm. Without Alfred’s missing father, the work is too much for... Read More

"Slime" is Susanne Wedlich’s lively scientific study that underscores the importance of the slimy life forms and inert viscous interfaces that enervate the biosphere. “Slime” is the catchall phrase for all the slippery, gooey... Read More

In the sixteen sumptuous historical stories of Leah Angstman’s "Shoot the Horses First", outsiders and pioneers face disabilities and prejudice with poise. An orphan shipped from Brooklyn to Illinois hopes to meet the right adoptive... Read More

The price a family pays for succumbing to the fear of the atomic bomb is at the center of Ciera Horton McElroy’s historical novel "Atomic Family". Dean, Nellie, and Wilson Porter are an all-American family living in the suburb of a... Read More

Forthright and poetic, "The Nature of Spring" belongs to a quartet of Scottish nature writer Jim Crumley’s books. Heading into the Highlands and islands in “the backward spring of 2018,” Crumley pursued customary signs and... Read More

"The Panacea Project" is an enthralling medical thriller that lays bare the battle between greed and sacrifice in the struggle to eradicate cancer. Catherine Devore Johnson’s medical thriller "The Panacea Project" depicts what a cure... Read More