Review

A perfect blend memoir / autobiography and music / culture. Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters is a perfect telling of influence and community.  In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen...

http://www.pelekinesis.com The Burning Girl is a story of two young girls, Julia, the narrator, and Cassie—best friends since kindergarten—on the verge of becoming teenagers. The story opens with Julia...

Down in the Belly of the Whale by Kelley Kay Bowles Down in the Belly of a Whale is sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, but always real. Down in the...

The Swim: A NovelAbout Friendship and the Longest Swim in the World by Jens Colting Timid, 14-year-old Tiny undertakes a life-saving swim sparked by an unlikely friendship with Goliath....

Timid, 14-year-old Tiny undertakes a life-saving swim sparked by an unlikely friendship with Goliath. Bonding over their imperfections, they form a deep friendship, quickly becoming inseparable. Goliath, 12 years...

www.braddockavenue books.com Although Lovepain is by no means a suspense novel, Curtis Smith proves throughout to be a master of the suspended moment and a connoisseur of unresolved tension....

Hero-A-Go-Go! is a loving and meticulously-researched tribute to the Camp Age, an all-too-brief bygone era when superheroes and other pop-culture phenoms didn’t take themselves so seriously. Eury’s study begins...

Hard as it may be to believe, Die Empty by Kirk Jones is kind of dark. The novel centers on an insurance broker named Lance whose recent acquisition of...

W.W. Norton & Co.books.wwnorton.com In the final lines of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, our narrator-hero declares: “I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead...

If you’re looking for a good scare (or several dozen good scares), then look no further than F.P. Dorchak’s anthology of short horror fiction Do the Dead Dream? Collected...