The stakes are serious from the first, with immediate questions about the teens’ perilous positions and the lies that informed their pasts. Elements of a mystery and realistic teen fiction combine in the suspenseful young-adult romance... Read More

Two Bodies One Soul: Brothers breaks with tropes of vampire stories, and does so with strength and vision. Two Bodies One Soul: Brothers by Alannah King focuses on experimentation on vampires and the nature/nurture conundrum. The... Read More

This action-packed science fiction novel has vivid, beautiful settings and characters with depth. Eric Peter Brown’s "The Supremacy" is a science fiction epic with an eclectic cast of characters, unique fantastic settings, and a... Read More

These pages are filled with characters fighting poverty with industriousness and battling discrimination with colorblind friendships. Set amid the wide-ranging history of the American South and its traditions of bootlegging and white... Read More

Kummer’s memoir is an entertaining account of missionary life. Elke Kummer’s memoir "Adventures in the Rotor Wind" is an informative account of the first three years she and her husband, Hans, spent in Indonesia, working to support... Read More

"The Saint James Conspiracy" satisfies through a blend of scholarly passion and suspense. Jessica Murphy’s "The Saint James Conspiracy" is an entertaining, intricate cloak-and-dagger novel that explores a controversial theory in... Read More

Wong’s book does a great job of teaching children the importance of money. Joseph Wong’s I’m So Ready for Life uses simple, straightforward writing to offer young children an introductory explanation of how money works. Though... Read More

"Cloning Galinda" is an entertaining tale that opens a fascinating window into the controversial subject of hydraulic fracking. One good Midwestern woman stands up against the overwhelming financial and political might of a corrupt... Read More