Escape the System argues that modern life trains people to shape their choices around approval until they lose the ability to separate personal direction from public expectation. Writing under the name Mr. Nobody, the author describes how ordinary routines slowly condition people to seek reassurance...

In Food for Soul: A Couple’s Inner and Outer Journey toward Living Fully, Jessica Iachia crafts a memoir that is filled with insights and lessons on personal growth and the art of growing in love and living fully and purposefully. She tells her story, starting...

The Creative Way by Steven B. Wills is a portfolio of digital images. But it is first and foremost a meditation on creativity as an act of resilience, remembrance, and transformation. It combines photography, digital enhancement, abstract experimentation, and AI-assisted imagery. This allows Wills to...

For Better or Worse by Linda Fischer documents the author’s extraordinary odyssey from Nazi-occupied Sudetenland to success in the world of hospitality in the United States. She was born in 1941 to an SS family and survived the collapse of the Third Reich, lived through...

In Rivers and Forests, Wayne Westphal Barrow’s anthology of original essays leans into Caribbean life. Barrow's memories become a way for him to show wider social attitudes through familiar situations. Getting Older and the Benefits of Gardening follows a retired Barbadian man who slowly withdraws...

Bridges: What Ties Allies by Lande Jewels is a collection of poetic narratives focused on the many bridges that crisscross the City of London. Some, like the iconic Tower Bridge, are famous for their ingenuity, distinctive form, and stately grace. Other bridges have weathered the...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations (Vol. 3: New Beginnings) by Ichiro Asanuma follows the final stage of a long personal pilgrimage from Kuwana to Kyoto along Japan’s historic Tokaido Road. The book blends travel writing, cultural history, memoir,...

Walking Along the Ancient Tokaido Road: A Pilgrim’s Path: Adventures and Transformations (Vol. 2: Insight and Memories) by Ichiro Asanuma continues the author’s journey through Japan with a thoughtful examination of history, culture, and modern society. Picking up where the first volume left off, the...

Chiwueze Ihebuzor's Ndáwí: A Story That Refused to Be Silenced is a son's journey to reconstruct the life of his mother, Cordelia Ndáwí Ihebuzor, and the history surrounding her death in 1990. Raised inside a polygamous Igbo household shaped by hierarchy and unresolved resentment, Cordelia...

In Europe À La Mode, Linda Hall-Kelsoe recounts a six-week journey across southern Europe that gradually reshapes her understanding of what makes travel worthwhile. After disappointing visits to crowded attractions leave her exhausted, she begins paying closer attention to the experiences that feel most natural...