In Dan Allen’s humorous coming-of-age tale, social expectations are balanced against the need for personal freedom. Peter Barnes is fed up. From the day he was born, his and Jaylee Yates’s lives have been linked together for no other... Read More

In this intimate, intense novel about a child’s perception of a vanishing way of life, seven-year-old M, thirsty for a way of learning about the world that her classroom cannot offer, convinces her traveling salesman father to take her... Read More

"Not My Ruckus" is an incisive novel that probes people’s dark motivations, but ends with hope. Chad Musick’s "Not My Ruckus" is a brutal, potent psychological drama about abused teenagers, revenge, and friendship in 1980s Texas.... Read More