Here’s a moment from our day, a review in video format: a friend reading All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John. (He laughed so much, he bought it and the sequel, All My Friends Are Still Dead.) Thanks, Chris!  

A nice coincidence happened in my house this week: my son (a.k.a. Jack, the bookstore baby) has fallen in love with a new book that happens to be about Neil Armstrong. Like a lot of children, Jack likes to have a select few picture books read to him repeatedly. This week, he felt like branching [...]

The latest novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, the founder of the mash-up genre, is considerably more controversial then his previous novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Part action film, part revenge fantasy, part sacrilege, Unholy Night is a violence-filled, loose reinterpretation of the story of Jesus’s birth. It focuses on three criminals who [...]

Young fans of Walt Disney World will enjoy the Kingdom Keepers series for middle readers by Ridley Pearson, co-author of the Starcatchers series. The books follow a group of children on their fantastic adventures in the Disney World parks when the magic and the Disney villains come to life after hours. The fifth book, Shell Game, was released last month. Here’s what our [...]

At first, Arcadia seems like a quiet book. With fewer than 300 pages, its weight portrays a slip of a book. It isn’t. Lauren Groff knows what is necessary. She knows how to pack her words in a neat, small bundle. Arcadia expands, fills time and space, lives. The life story of Ridley “Bit” Stone [...]

Sometimes Dr. Samantha Owens gets…upset. On occasion, she washes her hands so hard her nails draw blood. She has developed a preference for scotch. Readers of Ellison’s Taylor Jackson series will already know Sam as Nashville’s intelligent medical examiner and Taylor’s loving best friend. However, those readers will find Sam much changed in A Deeper [...]