"Plastic Girl" is a compelling cautionary tale set in a world where climate change has been taken to its logical extremes. In Jessica Maison’s young adult climate change novel "Plastic Girl", a teenager possesses the power to create... Read More

In its multifarious coverage of particular ephemera, the collectors’ history "Cigar Box Lithographs Vol. 3" shows that commercial art reflects and perpetuates its culture. "Cigar Box Lithographs Vol. 3" is fascinating as it covers the... Read More

"Train from Thompsonville" is a nostalgic historical novel in which a girl grows up in a vibrant factory town. In D. C. Moses’s historical novel "Train from Thompsonville" a Polish Catholic girl comes of age in a New York factory town.... Read More

In the small-town mystery novel "Personal Reasons", a suddenly famous detective returns home to solve a cold case—his mother’s murder. In Michael Botz’s mystery novel "Personal Reasons", a detective on a lifelong quest to solve his... Read More

A healing adventure becomes a chance for new romance in the healing novel "Somewhere Above It All". In Holli Fawcett Clayton’s evocative romance novel "Somewhere Above It All" a grieving woman seeks to scale a treacherous mountain,... Read More

Sticks ’n’ Stones is a fun, encyclopedic history of the controversial path that curling took to gain Olympic status. Warren Hansen’s sports history book Sticks ’n’ Stones concerns how the outlet became an Olympic sport. Hansen,... Read More

"The Art of Traveling Strangers" is a warm, empowering novel in which a woman recovers her sense of worth. Heartbreaks prompt an art history professor to work as a guide in Zoe Disigny’s quirky novel "The Art of Traveling Strangers",... Read More

The entries of the encyclopedic "Letters from Mr. J B Fact Finder" are educational tidbits on a myriad of subjects. Varied and light, the topical essays of Joe W. Boyd’s "Letters from Mr. J B Fact Finder" gather interesting historical... Read More