Belying its modest title, Joshua Winn’s "The Little Book of Exoplanets" is an extraordinary, far-reaching astronomy book that describes the exploration of planets outside our solar system. As this engaging book explains, more than five... Read More

In Katherine Greene’s novel "The Woods Are Waiting", cyclical tragedies haunt a small rural town. Five years ago, three children disappeared in the woods near the isolated town of Blue Cliff. They never came back. Cheyenne, who found... Read More

Age, class, and lies affect a space-borne society in the science fiction graphic novel "Arca". Effie will turn eighteen soon, at which point she’ll stop serving the “citizens”—the rich aristocracy of a large spaceship called... Read More

A journalist uncovers a bloody murder during a trip to Ireland in Nancy Nau Sullivan’s novel "A Deathly Irish Secret". Five years after her grandmother Maeve’s death, Blanche is still discovering items that Maeve left behind,... Read More

Imagination runs wild in Rachel Cantor’s historical novel "Half-Life of a Stolen Sister", an innovative spin on the lives and work of the Brontë sisters. Maria’s mother is unwell. She no longer takes care of Maria’s younger... Read More

A teenager learns when it’s time to set childhood ideas aside in the entertaining coming-of-age novel "Worldwide Crush". A superfan hopes to meet her favorite celebrity in Kristin Nilsen’s funny, bighearted novel "Worldwide Crush".... Read More