Nikki Nash’s frank, funny memoir "Collateral Stardust" is about growing up in an offbeat Los Angeles family. Nash was the sensitive oldest child in an unconventional family in the 1960s. Her father was a show-business trombonist and... Read More

The life and work of a comics pioneer is documented in Steve Weiner and Dan Mazur’s informative graphic biography "Will Eisner". Amid economic hardships, Eisner found relief in classic fiction and “pulp” magazines. He gained... Read More

In Ronnie Turner’s eerie novel "Small Fires", a land is ruled by tales of the devil. Suspected for murdering their parents, Lily and her beastly sister, Della, escape to the God-Forgotten, a remote island inhabited by the fearful Folk,... Read More

A boy who can visualize the effects of what people say or feel comes into his own in the intriguing novel "Energy Wars". In Jodi Dee’s fantasy novel "Energy Wars", a teenager discovers that emotions are more powerful, complex, and... Read More

An inventive, fabulistic novel, "North of Sunset" sets a dark scientific experiment against a background of glittering opulence. In Haley Ahern’s alluring futuristic novel "North of Sunset", a young man becomes involved with a tycoon... Read More

In Antti Tuomainen’s dark comedic thriller "The Burning Stones", competition for the CEO position at a Finnish sauna company heats up when someone begins killing off the potential applicants. Anni is Steam Devil’s top salesperson,... Read More

Dark but not hopeless, "After" is a postapocalyptic thriller about highs and lows of the human will to hope and survive. Two couples try to survive when nuclear war breaks out in Paul Meloche’s novel "After", about the struggle to... Read More

In A.J. West’s historical novel "The Betrayal of Thomas True", harsh moral laws and intolerance imperil the lives of gay men in Georgian London. Handsome and earnest, Thomas True travels to London in 1715. He yearns for a better life... Read More