Mick Cochrane

In Mick Cochrane’s novel, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, Molly, an eighth grader, turns to baseball as both an escape and a means of understanding the pain brought on by the death of her father just six months prior.  As her mother retreats deeper and deeper into her grief, Molly struggles to find a way to hold onto her father’s memory and turns to baseball, a pastime the two shared together. She eventually finds acceptance on the boy’s baseball team with the knuckleball (a pitch that ‘flutters like a butterfly’) her father helped her to develop. READ MORE...



Lauren Belfer

Those who enjoyed Buffalo native Lauren Belfer’s novel City of Light (a story whose setting is Buffalo in 1901 as preparations are underway for the Pan-American exposition) will be glad to hear that Belfer’s second novel A Fierce Radiance, READ MORE...

Cathi Brese Doebler

If you’ve ever wondered if your family could survive on less than two incomes, if you and your spouse have argued about needing to spend less money, or if, quite simply, you’re tired of trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ then check out the new book by Cathi Brese Doebler, READ MORE...