Genre Guide – Holiday Romance

‘Tis the Season to read romance!  No matter what holiday or holidays you’ll be celebrating as the weather gets cooler, there’s a romance novel to meet your festive reading needs.  … Continued


Genre Guide – Gothic Fiction

Welcome to the world of dark and stormy nights, gloomy mansions, family secrets, passionate yearnings, and (mostly) doomed romances. Help yourself to these old-school treats and contemporary tricks of the … Continued



Queer Science Fiction

Queer science fiction challenges cisnormativity and heteronormativity while also pushing the boundaries of possibility and the imagination. Robots, necromancy, aliens, spaceships, mind control, and more await you in these out-of-this-world … Continued



Genre Guide – Body Horror

Body Horror often features gross and terrifying transformations happening to humans. Like a rash, from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis to today, body horror is spreading!  These selections using the body or … Continued



Chilling Short Stories

Settle into the impending gloom of winter weather by reading a few stories in these collections. Although not all of these stories are wintry in atmosphere, the suspense and strange phenomena they contain will be sure to send chills down your spine.


It’s Playtime!

Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” For parents and caregivers, this is a great reminder of the value to children of time spent playing games, enjoying movement, and exercising their imaginations.