The Listeners Harrison Demchick Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that’s what his best friend Katie’s police officer father said. They were criminals, thieves, monsters—deadly men clearly identifiable by the removal of their right ears. He didn’t know much… Continue reading The Listeners
Category: Fiction
The Understory
The Understory Elizabeth Leiknes Story Easton knows the first line of every book, but never the last. She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully. And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into the homes of others, and feeling, for a short while, like a different, better person.… Continue reading The Understory
Lonesome Song
Lonesome Song A Shep Harrington Small Town Mystery Elliot Light Reilly Heartwood, a famous country singer, is dead. His sister doesn’t recognize the dead man’s body. The local reverend has refused to permit burial. Reilly’s death is ruled a suicide. And no one has bothered to investigate. What the hell is going on here? That’s… Continue reading Lonesome Song
Singled Out
Singled Out Sara Griffiths There was a time when all was right in Taylor Dresden’s world—that is, as long as she was on the baseball diamond, pitching with all her heart. But that was years ago. Now, there’s no competition in her New Jersey high school, and summer league is not much better. With the… Continue reading Singled Out
Thrown a Curve
Thrown a Curve Sara Griffiths There was a time when all was right in Taylor Dresden’s world—that is, as long as she was on the baseball diamond, pitching with all her heart. Now, as she enters her senior year, the magic is gone. With the scouts losing interest because of her poor grades, and with… Continue reading Thrown a Curve
Reality Jane
Reality Jane Shannon Nering Set behind the scenes of America’s most popular guilty pleasure—reality TV—Reality Jane delivers a high-spirited, delicious tale of finding love and a career in Hollywood while juggling lipo envy, singlehood angst, and the resounding results of success. Reality Jane follows Jane Kaufman, a Canadian journalist who, because of a lucky connection,… Continue reading Reality Jane
Queens of All the Earth
Queens of All the Earth Hannah Sternberg As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. Big sister Miranda decides the sisters should fly off to Barcelona for some vacation therapy. When a mistake at their Barcelona hostel leaves the Somersets in a large co-ed dorm room, Olivia… Continue reading Queens of All the Earth
The Samaritan
The Samaritan Stephen Besecker After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin “Hatch” Easter has found a job he believes in—tracker for the CIA—and a wife, Karen, he cherishes. But his life is shattered on a hot August night… Continue reading The Samaritan
Mia the Magnificent
Mia the Magnificent Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Magnificent
The Atomic Weight of Secrets
The Atomic Weight of Secrets Or the Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from… Continue reading The Atomic Weight of Secrets