In Gillian Best’s "The Last Wave", raw human emotion teems just underneath the lapping surface of modern English life. After accidentally falling into the sea while fishing with her father, Martha begins a lifelong romance with the... Read More

In "The Big Get-Even", hard-boiled crime meets a crew of wise-cracking ex-cons. Just out of prison for scamming clients and stealing millions, Glen McClinton is trying to adjust to a life of poverty and ignominy. He’s found a somewhat... Read More

Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña illuminate the career of a noted photographer in their biographical graphic novel Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. Published by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, "Photographic" might... Read More

In Kristen Witucki’s emotionally gripping novel, young Tallie struggles for self-acceptance against other people’s expectations and beliefs, particularly around her blindness. Meanwhile, Benjamin, who works in reader services at the... Read More

Another wacky adventure with Waldo Baron, better know as W.B., arrives with "The Wonderful Baron Doppelgänger Device", in which someone has used W.B.‘s parents’ latest invention to assume his identity. It’s an exciting time for... Read More

Jennifer Clair distills years of teaching cooking classes into a useful manual for becoming a more rounded home cook. Each technique receives one chapter, with numerous recipes and illustrative photographs as helpful aids. What makes... Read More

In Philip Donlay’s Speed the Dawn, a plausible catastrophe hits California, triggering a lightning pace of events. Billionaire philanthropist Donovan Nash has assembled the best scientific minds to tackle Earth’s environmental... Read More