A careful prosecutor with a stormy past is faced with a stalker in the exciting thriller "Blindspot". A winding thriller, Maggie Smith’s "Blindspot" is a testament to the consequences of past choices and unhealed wounds. Rachel, a... Read More
Supernatural horrors meet frank discussions of mental health in Ethan and Naomi Sacks’s bighearted graphic novel "A Haunted Girl". After a suicide attempt and a stay in a psychiatric ward, Cleo struggles to reintegrate. She avoids her... Read More
Challenging its audience to find themselves within its heroines’ tales, Leah Hager Cohen’s magnificent turn-and-read novel To & Fro is a tour de force peek into the wilds and wounds of childhood. Annamae, a linguist’s daughter... Read More
Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified.... Read More
A former confidence man confronts a haunted ancient Egyptian artifact while running from his past in Megaera C. Lorenz’s novel "The Shabti". Dashiel, a former fraudulent medium, makes a meager living holding shows revealing his former... Read More
In Noa Silver’s novel "California Dreaming", a recent college graduate tries to live up to her mother’s reputation. Using her rebellious mother’s story as a template, Elena moves to Oakland with Teach for America. She’s sure her... Read More
Within its compact length of six stories, Amy Lee Lillard’s collection "Exile in Guyville" packs a major punch with its hard-hitting science fiction that centers women’s perspectives. Sometimes darkly humorous and sometimes just... Read More
"DIY Thrift Flip" is an encouraging, inspirational guide with instructions for turning thrift-store finds into more fashionable, fun, wearable clothes. Part of the enjoyment of thrifting is the hunt for a treasure, the book says. When... Read More