In A.B. Acharya’s Red Sky, after losing academic recognition for his research into DMTA, neuroscientist Narin Roy travels from Chicago to St. Louis, hoping to rebuild his career through a pharmaceutical company called Harvester. There, he becomes involved with Ian Blair, a corporate attorney connected...

It’s August 2017, and Gabriel, a successful book editor living in Chicago, is on his way to Bogota, Colombia. He’s just suffered a personal loss and needs to get away. His decision to spend some time with his ex-boyfriend Diego proves to be a mistake:...

The Raven and the Rose by Adra Mayfield and Leanne Blakemore is a tightly written and well-plotted historical romance set in 1840 in Northumberland, England. Lady Rosalind Englebright is a spirited woman who prefers breeches to ballgowns. She is fierce and untamed. Her father is...

Lady of the Manor by Adrian Q. Heflin is my favorite kind of book. Not since V.C. Andrews’ book, Flowers in the Attic, have I read about so much family drama and so many secrets. The story follows the lives of the Creek family. Rosemary...

Honeysuckle Playground is a young adult drama by Adrian Heflin. Set in the 1980s, the book follows the story of Geraldine, a teenager growing up in the small town of Talmadge in Georgia. Raised by a single mother, Geraldine has a lot of anger in...

Lady of the Plantation by Adrian Heflin is an extraordinary story of love, slavery, survival, and a craving for freedom. It showcases the pain and harsh realities of living a life of oppression on a tobacco plantation. Sylvia's story starts near Charlottesville, Virginia, on the...

In What Tree Are You? by Akila Selvaraj, readers are invited to discover their personality tree type. The book is broken down into several parts. Early on, there is a quiz to identify which tree you are, including mango, teak, bamboo, cherry blossom, sandalwood, and...

Millionaire Grinders: A Personal Finance Self-Help Book is a work of non-fiction in the business and finance genres. Author Alex Lee addresses the pervasive issue of frivolous spending and debt in modern society. Lee highlights how the average American's $18,000 annual expenditure on nonessentials could...

Alex O. Harb’s To Spare A Dragon follows Celia of Rellan, a paid monster hunter whose sister Emilia is dying from orange plague. Celia wants money for a healer, and has no interest in royal ceremony, yet King Talbert names her Dragon Slayer after Tallanor...

The Soul Machines is a work of fiction in the history, mystery, family saga, and interpersonal subgenres. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by Alexandru Czimbor. Set in Transylvania, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1800s,...

Sentience Hazard is a work of fiction in the science fiction, techno-thriller, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience as it contains some mild violence and sexual references. Penned by author Alexandru Czimbor, the story is set in...

The Heart of a Champion by Alexis Minnich follows Lou, an equestrian, as she manages her riding career at Schuster Stables. She works closely with her primary horse, Jack, building skills over several years and competing in local shows while balancing personal life, family, and...

In You Are Not Alone: A Recovery Coach's Journey From Addiction To Advocacy, Amy Sprague describes how a reliance on substances slowly turns into a life governed by fear and physical need. Using her own experiences, she shows how her attempts to quit alone repeatedly...

Andrew Finlayson’s Mindset Towards Mastery delivers a practical guide for leaders and ambitious professionals and anyone who wants to lead, not just others but themselves. The book is designed to help leaders build conscious leadership. The author discusses what it takes to awaken personal potential...

Some of life's biggest lessons come from the simplest stories. In The Red Letters: Parables from the Gospel of Matthew, Angela Fincham introduces young learners to some of Jesus's best-known parables and their lessons. The book begins by defining what a parable is, using language...

The Poetry Project: Genesis is a collection of narrative poems by Angela Williams. The poems are derived from the chapters of the Book of Genesis. From creation to the children of Israel in Egypt, the author discusses God’s faithfulness, unconditional love, and favor upon His...

Wisteria Winter by Ann Swann is the compelling story of two sisters who lose everything they love on Christmas Eve. Woken by a premonition, Sasha Everly wakes up her older sister Linzy, only to find that it’s too late to save their parents from the...

The 4C Heart: Curls, Kinks, and Knots of My Dry, Thirsty, Single Soul by Anna E Styron is a bold, brave, and sometimes confrontational personal story of the author’s journey as a woman. It opens by explaining the title. “Black hair, like the heart, can...

Annette Bühler's Navigating Ethical Leadership in the Age of AI: The Ethic Pocketknife covers the roles of ethical leadership as AI technologies take off. Bühler emphasizes how important it is to incorporate ethical frameworks—deontological, teleological, and virtue ethics—into leadership work to avoid any ethical hitches...

Deadly Dilemma by Anthony Gurley opens with a suicide letter the 73-year-old author wrote in May 2023 and never sent. Instead of acting on the thoughts, Anthony chooses to take a harder look at his life. What follows is a memoir that narrates a fascinating...

Better by Aran Dadswell introduces mental fitness as a practical way to train the mind in daily life. The book begins with a central idea: feeling better is not the same as chasing happiness. Dadswell shows how depletion can be noticed before burnout takes over,...

The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar is a work of non-fiction in the music, education, and how-to-guide subgenres. It is suitable for both young adult and adult readers to learn from and was created by the author duo Asher...

Ashley McDonough has successfully broken down the principles of Operations and Supply Chain Management in a guide called Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know. It is an in-depth book, which does more than explain the concepts. McDonough takes an example...

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” In Sincerely, Mildred by Ashley Rea, Mildred is a dreamer. So much so that the 19-year-old sometimes gets into trouble with her wandering mind at the cannery job...

Robotics for Writers author August Niehaus has been involved in the tech industry as a designer for conversational interfaces. She is knowledgeable and even authoritative when discussing how artificial intelligence (AI) is used for language, communications, and writing. In this book, the author enumerates and...

In Stripping Like Nobody's Business, Bambi Rehak recalls her childhood in an abusive and mostly neglectful household. Her mother's low expectations and lack of encouragement started Rehak on the same cycle as her parents, and she had two children before she was out of her...

You Were the Music by Barb Shadow is a soul-stirring poetry collection that chronicles the intimate journey of her partner’s battle with cancer and the emotional aftermath of his loss. The book opens on a relatable note, with Shadow sharing a piece by her deceased...

When I come across poetry I'm excited because I experience and embrace the thoughts, emotions, and transparency of the author. With over thirty poems in Among the Dying Violets by Barb Shadow, the author did not disappoint. Poems like Grandpa, My Father, Unspoken, and Moms...

True Ghost Stories and Hauntings by Barb Shadow is an otherworldly experience. Being the co-founder of the Sullivan Paranormal Society, she has a vast well of knowledge of the subject. This book has hundreds of accounts from eyewitnesses and their brush with the paranormal. We...

Initiate of Darkness (From the Darkness) by Barb Shadow is suspenseful horror fiction. Olivia is close to her foster brother, Seth, and always has been. But when his friend dies, Seth struggles to cope, becoming angry and depressed. Olivia has a fascination with all things...

Animals, folklore or fiction. These are the causes of many so-called haunted places, and paranormal investigator Jack Barnes is confident that the derelict New Castle Asylum won’t be much different as he goes inside and sets up his equipment for the night. Yet, the place...

Finding a portal through an Ouija board, a demonic entity destroys lives for over five decades in the paranormal horror novel, Invitation to Darkness by Barb Shadow. In 1939, Maggie Borden dies leaving behind her grieving husband, Ezra, and her young son, J.P. Blaming J.P....

Touched by Darkness is a work of fiction in the horror, suspense, and paranormal drama subgenres and was penned by author Barb Shadow. Written for the adult reading audience, the work contains scenes of graphic violence and forms the fourth book in the From the...

Shifting to Black by Barb Shadow is a paranormal tale like no other. New Castle Asylum was abandoned many years ago and has now been renovated. Called Forest View, it is a complex of apartments. The caretaker/manager, Joe Paine, has found an Ouija board on...

Motivated by her father's fondness for tracing family genealogy, Barb Shadow followed him to the strangest of places, cataloging every tombstone and the unique story that came with it. As time progressed she grew into her own as a hunter of the paranormal with some...

Cult of Darkness by Barb Shadow follows the long-term consequences of a demonic presence named Black as it affects several people over two different timelines. As a child, Olivia survived a violent supernatural event that left others dead and led to Dom being wrongly blamed...

True Ghost Stories and Hauntings, Volume 3 by Barb Shadow is a paranormal non-fiction collection featuring over 150 chilling accounts of ghostly encounters and unexplained phenomena. From eerie spirits woken by unearthing human bones to sinister entities with no faces, these stories dive into the...

Murphy is off to school. He doesn’t understand why, and he wonders if it’s really just about learning new rules. In Becki A. Jacobson’s The Adventures of Murphy and Me: Why Must I Go to School?, Murphy continually questions the importance of going to school....

Verse by Verse: A Daily Devotional Through the Whole Bible, Volume 1 by Benjamin McGreevy is a meticulously delivered verse-by-verse examination of the Bible, starting with the opening chapters of the book of Genesis. This is the first volume in what the author intends to...

Meet Bridgette Connor. When luck is being issued, she must feel as if she is the last person in line receiving the good stuff. As her life plummets from bad to worse, she throws up her hands in total despair, and runs. Her heart is...