Brisk pacing and a complex plot make this mystery novel a juicy, satisfying thriller. "Slow Burn" follows Fourth Down and Out as the second Andy Hayes mystery by Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Private investigator Andy is struggling in both his... Read More

Genre-bending, gender-bending, dialect-filled, and fascinating, this steampunk novel handles old West racism with humor and grit. Lou Merriwether is a “psychopomp”—she has the ability to help spirits stuck in the land of the living... Read More

This funny adventure in the Ottoman Empire illuminates a slice of history not often covered in young-adult fiction. When King James the III of England and VIII of Scotland gifts young Charles Henby with a white-feathered tricorn hat,... Read More

Eastern philosophy and romance converge in this novel that reads like a fable. Bhagwati Charan Verma’s novel "The Dancer, Her Lover and the Yogi" braids Eastern philosophy with a whirlwind romance and offers a satisfying if... Read More

Cannell shines the sun on a possible cause of autism: lack of vitamin D. When John J. Cannell was just starting out as a physician in 1975, he saw something that was then rare: a patient who fit the symptoms of a range of... Read More