Some actions are unforgivable. Though our Western culture is steeped in a religion that exhorts […]
Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice
These days, most of us live lives almost completely divorced from the hard, unpredictable work […]
The Nightmarchers, by J. Lincoln Fenn
I’m not sure it’s a common lesson in the fiction I read or just fiction in genre, […]
Judge Walden: Back in Session, by Peter Murphy
To paraphrase Oliver Wilde, the law is rarely pure and never simple. This is certainly […]
Grief Cottage, by Gail Godwin
Even though he is eleven years old, Marcus Harshaw is remarkably good at hiding his […]
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town, by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Do not be fooled by the cover of Secret Passages in a Hillside Town. Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen’s […]
The Shakespeare Requirement, by Julie Schumacher
For a while, we got a lot of students at our library who wanted to […]
Dream Country, by Shannon Gibney
Who is to blame for the conditions that are turning Kollie Flomo into someone consumed […]
Under the Harrow, by Flynn Berry
Flynn Berry’s lightning fast and devastating novel, Under the Harrow, begins with Nora walking into the […]
The Dictionary of Animal Languages, by Heidi Sopinka
Over the course of Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages, several characters ask Ivory Frame […]