'I never saw the wires.' Those opening words introduce a potentially-deadly sailplane crash, from which, by a twist of fate, the author escapes unharmed. From that near-death experience to the poignant final farewell scene, Jim Richards' first-person story, with its audacious choices, unswerving determination, and joy in the doing is a page-turner. With vivid descriptions, optimism and wry humor the author traces his lifelong fascination with aircraft, taking the reader behind the scenes in radio, advertising and on high-action commercial film shoots involving refueling tankers, jet fighters,...

THE GATE is the latest page turner from the new master of suspense, Kevin John Windorf, whose "Call From The Cabin" was a favorite of NPR's "All Things Considered." David is excited to bring his wife Marianne and young daughter Emily to his friend's summer house on an isolated inlet on Virginia's Eastern Shore. But the late night drive changes his excitement to anxiety, and then to fear. Or is it just paranoia? No longer alone on the road, surrounded by darkness, responsible for the safety of his family, can David risk being wrong? And what will Marianne do when her own fears suddenly come to...