Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks have written a book in Astronauts that is educational, inspirational and entertaining. The narrative is told through the point of view of Mary Cleave, astronaut and Science Mission Directorate as NASA. Astronauts begins by describing the initial push to send women into space, including Valentina Tereshkova in the USSR and... Continue Reading →

A monster in the woods.  Children lost. Children slaughtered. One boy survives and is blamed because the public needs answers. And then the monster hunter comes to the town of Archer's Peak. Several young men get together for a slumber party and they start to play a game of Truth or Dare... They aren't the... Continue Reading →

Superman and Mongol grapple through the air... half flying, half fighting. They destroy Main Street and spark interest in a young woman to find out who her real parents are. As I've talked about here on the blog, I don't know much about comic book characters so I rely on these individual books to give... Continue Reading →

The world changes in a moment when the Y chromosome is wiped off the face of the earth in the fall of 2002.  All sperm, fetuses... any males are gone. What is the cause of this "gendercide?" A mystical necklace, a cloning experiment, a magical ring... In NYC, the West Bank, Jordan, and Boston, factions... Continue Reading →

Cynthia Copeland tells her story as a middle school kid in 1972 and 73. A crossroads in our nation's history as women's rights, the war in Vietnam, environmentalism, Watergate, and fashion try to distract her from the wild kingdom in the halls of Litchfield Junior High School. She enjoys hanging with her friends, riding her... Continue Reading →