This is a joyful and instructive look at how early American settlers held on to their values. Michael Gorton’s "Forefathers and Founding Fathers" is the fictionalized account of a group of early American settlers who refuse to bend to... Read More

A dank roadside motel plays a central role in this murder mystery involving teenage girls, competition, and festering secrets. In this well-written atmospheric mystery, Juliet Townsend has never left town after high school. As a runner... Read More

Falkin animates this dystopian YA novel with timeless depictions of what often feels like uncharted terrain bridging childhood and adulthood. "Contract City", Mark Falkin’s YA novel, set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, renamed “The City of the... Read More

For Deputy Sheriff Charley Scott, his job at the sheriff’s office in Powell County, Virginia, “is to work for justice … justice, pure and simple.” His boss, Sheriff Hargis Fielding, tells him, “That’s a good answer. But I... Read More

When a well-known real estate developer is found viciously murdered on the grounds of his own golf course, semi-retired attorney and reluctant sleuth Pete Thorsen tries to keep his distance from the intrigue surrounding the crime. Not... Read More

Serious figurative artists, especially those who specialize in portraits of children, will be amazed by the wealth of information in this book, meant to be a companion to the author’s previously published work, Human Proportions for... Read More

“Americans, especially American women, are being lied to and robbed blind; spending billions of dollars each year to eat dried up plants already growing in their own gardens,” Giuffre alleges. She’s referring to the huge... Read More

“When the nights were hot, a mysterious world appeared in Baghdad,” recalls the author. Armed with wool mattresses and cool white sheets, Al-Rawi’s family and neighbors would climb onto their roofs to talk, laugh, and sleep under... Read More