"Orpheus Rising" is a magical, memorable middle grade adventure that handles a serious topic with narrative grace. Lance Lee’s "Orpheus Rising" is a modern allegorical retelling of the Orpheus myth. In it, a father-son team is pitted... Read More

In Chris McKinney’s futuristic thriller "Midnight, Water City", a detective uncovers a conspiracy that makes him question his life’s work. Akira, the most brilliant scientist in the world, hired her head of security because of his... Read More

In the faith-filled novel "An Adventure with Abba Father", an exuberant girl brings a small town together. In Daisy Ruth Oñate Sohne’s Christian novel "An Adventure with Abba Father", a family moves to a new town and discovers the... Read More

Viliam Klimáček’s historical novel is both heartbreaking and hopeful as it shares the stories of families displaced by the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. When the Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia in August of 1968,... Read More

In 1994, Ashten Geddard, the front man of the popular UK band the Ashbirds, disappeared while attempting to climb Mount Everest. That’s how Roz Morris’s excellent novel "Ever Rest" begins—before jumping eighteen years into the... Read More

Karen Hofmann’s skillful, visceral novel "A Brief View from the Coastal Suite" follows a family through the early days of a financial crisis. Though the 2008 financial crisis strikes Vancouver hard, the Lund siblings find ways to... Read More