By Nancy CocoFrom the “Candy-Coated” series of mysteries comes “ToFudge or Not to Fudge.” Do not be fooled by the playful title. This is a great little mystery. The characters are intelligent and relatable. The mystery is not dumbed down at all, there was two points that I was taken by surprise and did not […]

Annabel by Kathleen WinterSet in the unforgiving landscape of Labrador, Annabel tells the story of a child who is born both male and female.  His father, Treadway, immediately decides the baby will be a boy and his name will be Wayne.  His parents, with the help of the medical community, raise Wayne as a boy and hide the […]

 by Randall Munroe By the writer of the webcomic xkcd, this book follows the same idea: use hard science as humour.  Munroe doesn’t dumb it down, either.  The concepts are challenging. In this book, he takes reader submitted questions and examines what would happen if: a baseball were thrown at near the speed of light; […]

by John ShirleyBased on the video game series BioShock, this novel stands very well alone as a story in its own right. Set in the underwater utopian city of Rapture, BioShock: Rapture tells the story of the founding and Ayn-Rand-type vision of a city where all people are equal, paid each according to their contributions […]