A dystopian Colorado offers insight into human conflict in an engaging, complex world. Set in a post-World-War-III Colorado, "Calling Days" is a fast-paced combination of sci-fi and the hard-boiled sleuthing of detective fiction, brought... Read More

"Juba Good", by Vicki Delany, is a murder mystery that explores the complexity of culture, in a simple narrative. Ray Robertson, a police officer with the United Nations in Juba, South Sudan, is part of an effort to move the fledgling... Read More

"The Boom Room", by Rick Blechta, is a fast-paced murder mystery that follows Detective Mervin Pratt, first introduced in Blechta’s Orchestrated Murder. There’s been a murder in a nightclub, the Boom Room. While Pratt’s rival... Read More

Butcher’s encouraging tone helps people find meaning in life during a debilitating illness. It was 2007, and forty-three-year-old Beckie Butcher thought she was dying. Something was dreadfully wrong. Every joint and muscle in her body... Read More

Set in the near future, this intellectually stimulating take on the end of civilization is made more chilling by how easily it could all happen. Smartly written and exhaustively researched, Thomas A. Lewis’s Tribulation: A Novel of the... Read More

Adults and kids alike will get lost in the whimsical story and textured art of "Fifteen Feet of Time". With Fifteen Feet of Time: A Picture Story by Lena Hesse and Philipp Winterberg, the authors have written a picture book whimsical... Read More

Zartman skillfully explores assisted suicide and the border between physical and spiritual reality. A near-death experience leads to a murder charge in There’s a Place, a provocative glimpse of one woman’s perception of the... Read More

Does size matter? Winterberg and Wichmann show and tell children why it does not in this colorful and imaginative story. Philipp Winterberg and Nadja Wichmann team up to tell the simple and delightful story of a girl who worries about... Read More