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Family Fallibility Author: Carol Rifka Brunt What were you doing in 1986? I was in college in the Midwest and AIDS was something that hung in the periphery of my world – scary and distant. Not so everywhere, of course, as the disease was ravaging gay communities all over the country, places where terrifying and immediate were the order of the day. In Tell the Wolves I’m Home, author Carol Rifka Brunt tells the story of a family in the middle of the crisis, through the eyes of a teenage girl. June is a 14-year-old with one of those sisters. [...]

The Word is Control Author: Max Barry We all know that words have power, right? As the communicators of emotion, they hurt and heal. As the communicators of fact they give promotions and take away jobs. But they’re vectors – the words themselves have no power – but what if they did? What if hearing a word could rob you of your conscious will? That would be a whole new, incredibly powerful Lexicon. Author Max Barry relies on words to do a whole lot more than tell his story in Lexicon. In a non-linear story that takes us back and [...]

It's Electrifying! Author: Bernadette Pajer How much do you know about electricity? I suspect that most of us have let the little we learned about the force that lights our homes fade from memory. Me? I don’t get too far beyond, “turn the lights off, electricity isn’t free!” But author Bernadette Pajer knows much, much more - enough to turn that knowledge into an entire series of historical cozy mysteries with electricity at the center. The Edison Effect is the fourth book in the Professor Bradshaw Mystery series featuring a University of Washington professor who has taken up crime solving [...]