Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
To call Days Without End "Blood Meridian lite" might sound dismissive, but it's not. (In fact, for many readers, it might be just right.) You can't get any darker than Cormac McCarthy's Western hellsc... (Tom)
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming
by Chris Harris, illustrated by Lane Smith
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown (Ups)
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups
by Chris Harris, illustrated by Lane Smith
This fat new book of verse is unrelated to almost anything else on our shelves, except that it might be a nephew to old Uncle Shelby, Shel Silverstein. With tiny punch-line couplets, silly multi-stanz... (Tom)
The Twelve-Mile Straight
by Eleanor Henderson
This is not the sort of epic that jumps through space and history. Instead, it turns on itself, over and over again, circling back to one event—a lynching in 1930—and another related one—the birth of... (Tom)