Recent reads

I have the utmost admiration for an author who does something different every time. Kudos, then, to R. A. Nelson. His July release, Days of Little Texas,



is a 180 from last year's Breathe My Name. In Days, the 15-year-old hero, a tent revival preacher and faith healer traveling the modern South, is an anachronism in the twenty-first century, but his feelings are very real as he first runs away from and then confronts the ghost of a girl whom he couldn't heal. Recommended for readers looking for