The secret life of the spotted salamander unfolds as April anticipates her special role in their yearly migration from underground habitats beneath the forest floor to nearby ponds and wetlands. Hushed and reverent with flashlights and... Read More

Parts per Million veers back to the early 2000s, as America somberly moves into a new millennium already shadowed by 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Three activists have banded together in Portland, Oregon, sharing a house and a passion for... Read More

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

"The Night of the Flood" uses an original and intriguing premise as a playground for seasoned crime writers to spin sordid but captivating tales. A group of strong activist women protesting the first execution of a woman in Pennsylvania... Read More

Richard Bruns’s "I, a Squealer" promises an insider’s account of the “Pied Piper of Tucson” murders. As intriguing as this narrative is, the more compelling story lurks within the relationship between the “squealer” and the... Read More

A disturbing look into how grief makes you susceptible to being taken advantage of, "The Boundless Sublime" is the story of girl who attempts to overcome one tragedy by barreling headlong into another. Mere months after a travesty tears... Read More

Opposites attract in "The Secret Science of Magic", a charming and witty story of individuality and what brings people together. Joshua is an indecisive, magic-loving teenager. On the brink of being thrust into a world he isn’t ready... Read More

"The Divinity Protocol" is thought-provoking science fiction that tackles haunting questions and works toward plausible answers. Berkeley and Kristin Johnson’s gripping speculative novel "The Divinity Protocol" explores the short- and... Read More