Shelf Reflections

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

“Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where[…]

“All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in[…]

“When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the[…]

“Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man[…]

“Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the[…]

“Egil and Nix, adventurers and swords for hire, are pulled into the dark schemes of a decadent family with a[…]

“Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the[…]

“Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are[…]

“In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana[…]

“No one knows where the Tufa came from, or how they ended up in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee,[…]