COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME is an excellent short guide to the titular condition. Editors Jijun Xu and Lynn R. Webster have assembled a highly interesting...

Although some of its advice can feel only loosely tied to the "underdog" idea, and some of it rehashes bland mainstream ideas about success, the...

Featuring a highly original premise and refreshingly confident execution, C.W. Johnson’s A LIFE FULL OF QUARKS transcends genre conventions to deliver a debut novel that's...

Through a creative retelling of history, David A. Jacinto’s WHERE EAGLES FLY FREE is a gripping tale that signifies courage, love, and the unbreakable spirit...

It's hard to predict whether the focus on fly-fishing will interest its envisioned 7th-grade audience, but Connie Richardson's RAPID CITY SUMMER still sensitively conveys lessons...

Though offering no new takes on the murder-mystery genre, Tess Raynes's CHILL OF TRUTH is a splendidly entertaining whodunit set in Canada's polar north.

SMITTY: MY MARRIAGE TO SERIAL KILLER CHARLES SCHMID, THE PIED PIPER OF TUCSON is an intriguing perspective on a serial killer that offers plenty to...

Josh Bottomly’s EUCATASTROPHE: The Story of a Modern Day Fairy Tale has a somewhat loose, scattershot arrangement, but it successfully portrays the vital, nourishing relationship...

Ashley Thomas Sheikh's KENTUCKY BLOOD has a deep, compelling cast of characters and a horrifically effective skill at building tension.

An engrossing historical mystery that unravels before the reader layer by layer, Sandro Martini's CIAO, AMORE, CIAO explores the depth of cruelty and human suffering...

Katherine Davis-Gibbon's WORDS offers a charming, delightful examination of the meaning, power, and usefulness of words for the preschooler audience.

Harold Phifer's MY BULLY, MY AUNT, AND HER FINAL GIFT offers a humorous and touching memoir of an abusive childhood in America's Deep South.