A Maryland family navigates the return of their institutionalized daughter in "The Precious Jules", Shawn Nocher’s contemplative novel about duty, love, and sibling fears. Thirty-two years ago, Ella Jules—a child challenged because... Read More

In Jackson Bliss’s vibrant and intense novel "Amnesia of June Bugs", four people cross paths on a stalled New York subway train during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. With a cyclical, reverse-time structure, the novel follows Aziz, a... Read More

In Victoria McCombs’s "The Winter Charlatan", a desperate but determined princess works to save her kingdom and break her curse. Rowan was born with a curse: that on the last day of her eighteenth year, she would prick her finger on a... Read More

"Will Computers Revolt?" is a fascinating speculative text about the potential and future of AI. Charles Simon’s "Will Computers Revolt?" is a knowledgeable primer on the future and limitations of artificial intelligence. The book... Read More

"Code Blue" is a thoughtful and satisfying young adult novel set in a world where climate change has altered much. Marissa Slaven’s bold, ambitious young adult novel "Code Blue" tackles climate change in the politically divided United... Read More

"The Long-Lost Jules" is an absorbing mystery novel centered on a lost royal descendant and contemporary money laundering schemes. A determined professor searches for a Tudor descendant in Jane Elizabeth Hughes’s complex mystery novel,... Read More