Heidi Richards Mooney covers all the stages of publishing in her book The Expectant Author. Mooney developed a trimester-by-trimester publishing framework containing three key phases: conception and early growth, development, and delivery. But just because publishing has clear phases doesn't mean the journey is easy....

Social media, smartphones, short attention spans, and institutional failures have contributed to a mass crisis in education today. Things have only taken a turn for the worse after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Richter has spent over three and a half decades teaching...

Real Litigation by J. Maldonado is a civil litigation handbook for people representing themselves in court. Maldonado begins with the decision to sue, showing how proof affects whether a claim belongs in court and whether recovery is realistic. He then moves into building a case...

In The Byzantine Pineapple, Bill Poje takes a hard look at how complex and unfair our social, economic, legal, and political (SELP) systems have become. It actually offers a solution. Poje argues that the endless stream of new laws, tax changes, and welfare programs makes...

AI has already made a significant impact on several institutions fundamental to the functioning of society, education being one among them. Will it help enhance our learning capabilities, or will the human element in education be discarded forever in its wake? Sarah Chardonnens has had...

The Alchemy of Motherhood by trauma counselor and mother Casey Keen is based on her own personal struggles with the healthcare system and the lack of resources for new mothers. She discusses birth trauma, postpartum depression, and relationship strain. Many women suffer in silence, being...

Literary Echoes: Short Story Analyses by Fiza Pathan is an educational study of short fiction that teaches readers how to examine the details authors put into their stories. Pathan considers Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” by looking at the village ritual as a social practice accepted...

Do you dream? Do you ever wonder what your dreams really mean? In Slavica Joković’s Dreams, the author explores some of her own dreams, beginning with a dream about an earlier era, walking with someone special, only to run into the same person in the...

Tuesday in Trussville is Robert L. Mason's account of how he built SPOC Energy, a power conversion company in small-town Alabama, around a philosophy he calls "Lift Up." The book opens on a single dramatic morning when a company-wide drug test leads an employee to...

E. Hughes’s A Clockwork Universe presents Unified Rotating Universe Theory as a cosmological model built around rotation as the organizing principle of physical reality. Hughes begins by rejecting space as an independent container, defining it instead as distance created after matter gives location meaning. From...