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In “The Secrets of Lost Stones,” a cryptic note presents troubled teen with a choice
Melissa Payne's novel calls on her experience with abused and neglected children to paint a compelling portrait of the troubled protagonist
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Kin or hostage? In “Wanted,” a chase across the American West, a woman realizes she’s both
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Tracking the story of Colorado’s Cheley camps, where generations of kids have learned to love the mountains
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In “Fake,” a high-school outsider describes her online metamorphosis
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Scenes from the past and present, linked by shadows and light, death and violence
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In the novel “The Cryptid Catcher,” the main character wonders if he’ll find evil
Author Lija Fisher's protagonist, Clivo, mistakes a priest for a shape-shifting creature, but then learns some disturbing information about the object of his search
A rite of initiation provides a violent — but welcome — admission to an eternal bond
In this excerpt from "You Who Enter Here," author Erika T. Wurth introduces us to the prison gang culture so coveted by the protagonists of her novel
Flown into the heart of the Amazon rain forest, a party of travelers has second thoughts
Laura Resau's layered work of juvenile literature combines mysticism, hard truths about the destruction of the rain forest and its Indigenous people -- and chocolate
Addiction, denial, despair — and joy — mark one woman’s thought experiment, aided by soft-hearted “guides”
In "Soft Hearted Stories," author Jenny Forrester views her world through a kaleidoscopic lens of prose and poetry
A genre-defying memoir calls on history, science and gripping narrative in a meditation on grief
In "The Lampblack Blue of Memory: My Mother Echoes," author Sarah Adleman employs a mix of literary techniques as tools that dig to the heart of tragedy and explore the concept of forgiveness
A talented 16-year-old painter is given a chance to “merge minds” with a dying master. Should he take it?
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl's young-adult tale of a plan to accelerate human development makes the opportunity sound enticing. But what are the ultimate costs?
In a Martian future, a private eye searches the dystopian bowels of the planet for a suspect
The science fiction writing duo of Warren Hammond and Joshua Viola adds another chapter to the series that features their female protagonist, Denver Moon, and her AI partner, Smith
Humanity and nature, mother and son, fulfillment and regret — a field guide
In a short story from her debut collection, author Emily Wortman-Wunder melds her love of wildlife and short fiction into a heart-wrenching meditation
An unusual setting for romance: A petroleum tank farm, an inspection of irregularities, a drug lord and his henchman
Author Harper McDavid introduces the unlikely characters in this award-winning romance novel set in the region where she once worked as a hydrogeologist along the Texas-Mexico border
