If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird, you’ll love this middle grade fiction book set in a rural town during World War II.  Prepare for all the feels with Lauren Wolk’s Wolf Hollow.

Ghouls and ballroom dancers and Aeslin mice, oh my!  Wanna know what all that’s about?  Then tune in for our latest episode, where we dive into Seanan McGuire’s Discount Armageddon, first book in her Incryptid series.

This week’s book is Jim Butcher’s Storm Front.  First in the long-running series The Dresden Files, this book introduces Harry Dresden, the only openly practicing wizard in Chicago.  A murder accomplished by magical means has Harry going up against a dark mage who has no qualms about killing anybody who gets in his way.

This week’s book is James Stoddard’s The High House.  Carter Anderson was exiled from his home, Evenmere, as a child, but now he has been summoned back.  The reason?  His father, Ashton Anderson, the Master of Evenmere, is missing.  Carter and his half-brother Duskin must find him before the servants of anarchy take over the […]

This week’s novel is The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh.  Captain Pyanfar Chanur, a hani space merchant, must decide what to do when a lone human runs onto her ship to escape from the murderous kif.  Alien cultures and spacegoing politics galore!

Our first book is A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, a mystery in which Holmes and Watson are women in late 1800s England.  Find out how changing the great detective’s gender affects the way crimes are solved, and enjoy the prologue and first chapter of this unique novel.

We’re almost ready to debut our podcast, First Chapter Friday.  We’ll be discussing a book and then reading the first chapter aloud.  Keep watching this space!