The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

Historical Crime/Suspense. 200 pages. Print, e-Book, Audio. Set in Salt Lake City at the height of the Great Depression, Linda Sillitoe’s last novel opens with three little girls, eleven-year-old triplets, skipping in front of their house at 1300 South, across from Liberty Park. They giggle lightly as they chant: Prin-cess Al-ice in Liberty Park Munch-es ba-nan-as ’til way after dark. Princess Alice is an elephant […]

June 16, 2014 / 0 Comments
Torn Canvas by Donna K. Weaver

Torn Canvas by Donna K. Weaver

Modern-day pirates took more than Jori Virtanen’s friends; they stole his face. Not only does the twenty-four-year-old former model have to confront months of reconstructive surgery, he discovers his previous life was as superficial as his looks. Jori struggles to make a new life for himself as an artist while evading the press. They expect a hero, but he knows the truth. His beauty masks […]

June 16, 2014 / 1 Comment
Drift by M.K. Hutchins

Drift by M.K. Hutchins

Tenjat lives on the shores of Hell, an ocean filled with ravenous naga monsters. His island, a massive Turtle, is slowed by the people living on its back. Tenjat is poor as poor gets: poor enough, even, to condescend to the shame of marriage, so his children can help support him one day. But Tenjat has a plan to avoid this fate. He will join […]

June 16, 2014 / 1 Comment
The Eye of Tanub by M.E. Cunningham

The Eye of Tanub by M.E. Cunningham

Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure. 280 pages. Print, e-Book. Everyone thinks she’s crazy. And maybe she is. But Lauren Marriott knows her journey into Terratir happened. It was real, and she’s writing it all down in frightening detail. She has no patience for her brother Zach and his passion for stupid computer games until she finds a mysterious pendant in his room, pulsating with magical power. Lauren […]

June 14, 2014 / 0 Comments
Sleep of Death by Aprilynne Pike

Sleep of Death by Aprilynne Pike

Oracles can see the future, but are sworn to never interfere. Charlotte Westing learned this lesson the hard way–but after a series of murders in her small town, she’s beginning to wonder if she learned too well. Are there some futures Charlotte has a responsibility to change? When a new girl with strange powers shows up at school on the same day Charlotte has a […]

June 13, 2014 / 0 Comments
Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston

Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston

A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our […]

June 13, 2014 / 1 Comment
Petronella Saves Several More by Dene Low

Petronella Saves Several More by Dene Low

Sixteen-year-old Petronella is once more thrown into adventure as she uncovers a plot to assassinate King Edward and a Russian archduke. With the help of the dashing and swoon-worthy Sir James Sinclair, her best friend Lady Jane Sinclair, and her beloved Uncle Augustus T. Percival, Petronella saves several more people from a certain and horrible death devised by the evil Rasputin. Matters are complicated when […]

June 12, 2014 / 1 Comment
Counting Candles by Dustin W. Bradshaw

Counting Candles by Dustin W. Bradshaw

As accountant James Smith approaches his 40th birthday, he concludes that his life is tedious, ho-hum, dull, and, well… mediocre. He can’t image the vast ways that those around him are affected by his simple, caring acts. James Smith is an ordinary man, with an ordinary name, leading a very ordinary life. Little does he know his seemingly insignificant acts of kindness—from saying hello to […]

June 12, 2014 / 2 Comments
Infinity + One by Amy Harmon

Infinity + One by Amy Harmon

When two unlikely allies become two unwitting outlaws, will two unforgettable lovers defy unbeatable odds? Bonnie Rae Shelby is a superstar. She’s rich. She’s beautiful. She’s impossibly famous. And Bonnie Rae Shelby wants to die. Finn Clyde is a nobody. He’s broken. He’s brilliant. He’s impossibly cynical. And all he wants is a chance at life. One girl. One boy. An act of compassion. A […]

June 11, 2014 / 1 Comment
Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

Paranoia by J.R. Johansson

After years of sleeplessness that nearly killed him, Parker Chipp is learning that being a Watcher—a Night Walker who watches dreams—isn’t an automatic death sentence. But as he figures out how to live with his unusual abilities, a powerful alter ego he calls Darkness is growing inside him, taking over his body and filling him with frightening impulses that could get him into serious trouble. […]

June 11, 2014 / 1 Comment