Socially isolated, beleaguered Peter Huddleston seems doomed to be the victim of nasty neighbors, his disconnected dad, and his step-mother’s devotion to beige décor and bland cuisine. However, Peter’s idyllic summer of cheese... Read More

Contrary to what one might suspect, the authors of this “moral case for respectful disbelief” do not want to convince others to give up religion. Instead, they aim “to show that religious believers’ beliefs about atheists are... Read More

This apocalyptic thriller weaves together the repercussions of human destructiveness with the advances of cutting-edge science to produce an eerie meditation about death’s widening gyre in a frighteningly modern world. When Josephine... Read More

Award-winning Canadian-Israeli novelist Edeet Ravel dishes up an intriguing psychological thriller in this young adult novel about an American teen who is kidnapped during a summer stay in Greece. Blindfolded, disguised, and drugged,... Read More

Poetic ruminations about randomness punctuate the action in this mystery set on the “backside” of Fairfax Park’s racetrack: “Who would be wealthy, who would be poor? Who would have fame, who obscurity?…Into each life the second... Read More

On May 12, 1975, “seven armed, black-clad Cambodians” boarded the Mayaguez, an unarmed American merchant ship, and took its crew captive. The United States’s humiliating withdrawal from Saigon had happened in March, and the Khmer... Read More

Doug Joseph’s sequel to New Immortal is an inventive representation of Pentecostal theology that will delight young adult readers. Combining other-worldly time travel with divine revelation, "Tesseract" shows that great rewards await... Read More

Seven spirals of energy, whirling radiantly within the body, join our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual selves, and their “alignment” is crucial to how we feel, interact, and move through the world. Originally a Hindu... Read More