A whaler and his wife experience a tragedy and new beginnings in Cynthia Reeves’s poignant historical novel "The Last Whaler". Tor loves whaling. Each summer, he leaves his family in Norway and sails to icy Svalbard to hunt. But... Read More

Mark Powell’s brooding Southern novel "The Late Rebellion" dives into the psychology of a multigenerational South Carolina family whose members rage against the future and cling to the past. Richard, a bank founder, receives a call... Read More

Grant Price’s cyberpunk thriller "Pacific State" follows a revenge assassination scheme in future-set, corporation-dominated Berlin, where skyscrapers loom over a devastated environment. Mia is a crusading mercenary; Owen is a former... Read More

A teenage spy falls for her sworn enemy and faces impossible choices in Leah Angstman’s novel "Falcon in the Dive". Ani’s comfortable childhood was cut short by the greed of the wealthy, merciless Beaumercy family. As the French... Read More

Fonchito has a crush on the most beautiful girl in his class, Nereida. When he asks if he can kiss her on the cheek, Nereida says she will let him if he can bring the moon down to her. Discouraged but determined, Fonchito finds a way to... Read More

Tiezzi’s Board is a sensitive novel about human relationships and the many ways that love can be expressed. In Ham Martin’s novel Tiezzi’s Board, a gifted yet frustrated woodcarver discovers a magnificent mahogany board whose dark... Read More

Three very different cousins go on a life-changing road trip in Monica Zepeda’s young adult novel "Boys of the Beast". Oscar’s father died in a school shooting; his activist mother is often absent. Matt is home schooled, and aspires... Read More

The small town thriller "The Fury before the Fire" follows a woman who fights to keep the peace in her town and in her life. In Bill Percy’s fifth installment of the Monastery Valley series, "The Fury before the Fire", a deputy... Read More