For as long as 17-year-old Alex Wayfare can remember, she has had visions of the past. Visions that make her feel like she’s really on a ship bound for America, living in Jamestown during the Starving Time, or riding the original Ferris wheel at...
In Sara Benincasa's contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, a teenage girl becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle, only to be implicated in a tragedy that shakes the summer community.
Everyone loves a good...
Small towns are nothing if not friendly. Friendship, Wisconsin (population:689688) is no different. Around here, everyone wears a smile. And no one ever locks their doors. Until, that is, high school sweetheart Ruth Fried is found murdered....
Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she’s not popular, but not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet, “good” girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now in her junior year, this passive...
When the Soviet army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson Yassin, deaf from the sounds of the bombing, is one of the few survivors. The two set out...
NEBULA NOMINEE’S “FANTASY MASTERPIECE”
Nebula nominee Ross Rocklynne’s awe inspiring cosmic masterpiece, People of the Darkness is a science fiction classic of “vast, nebula-like beings and follows their life courses through billions...
In this New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a strange new life form threatens all of humanity, and only a fool would stand in its way
Katmer Al Shei has done well with the starship Pasadena, cutting corners where necessary to keep her...
High school can be a difficult time in a young person’s life, especially toward the end where one has to start making the sudden transition into adulthood. For Jimmy Hawthorn it is even worse. Not only does he need to successfully make that...
Puppetry. The haunting play of freeze-frames, observing the girl dying. Watching, trying not to cry out. Unblinking. I cannot save her. I am locked deep in my prison, the monitoring bunker. The guards are in gas masks, their assault rifles...