Telling Dixie Goodbye by Scott Oglesby opens a window into the author’s turbulent, wandering life as he tries to distance himself from his conservative Southern upbringing. Growing up in a strict household in the shadow of a demanding father, Oglesby has a profound sense of...

Tracy Harmon’s Strange Seas introduces a whimsical world where marine biology meets creative art through thirty distinct, hand-drawn scenes. The book plays with real ocean behaviors and turns them into fun, imaginative concepts, like a boxfish running an underwater package delivery route or an octopus...

A Collection of Poems by Kauveh Rusta brings together thoughtful poems about life, exile, love, death, and the search for identity. Every poem is accompanied by an abstract painting, which gives the words a visual story. Kauveh takes readers to Iran, a country he still...

The AI Tsunami by Guy Morris is an eye-opening look at how fast autonomous software is taking over and what we actually need to do to survive it. Instead of treating tech as if it exists in a bubble, the book offers the idea of...

Ben Reinking’s How to Relax Without Losing Your Edge is a self-help guide that begins with high-functioning anxiety, the kind of worry that can look like achievement from the outside while keeping a person in overdrive inside. Reinking writes as a physician and as someone...

Cut to the Essence by Sneha Villalva is a self-help book that pulls apart the modern lie that doing more equates to being more. Villalva shares her life as a high achiever who looked successful on the outside but felt broken on the inside. She...

Loving, Caring, and Healing Yourself (Restoring Your Eternal Frequency) by Isaiah A. Tisdale is a self-help book that invites you to discover who you really are and show yourself some real love. Tisdale calls out the way society teaches us to follow someone else’s idea...

In Rise and Climb, Ben Barbic looks back on a childhood shaped by his father’s motorcycle world in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where racing trophies made ambition feel almost normal. A wildfire destroys the family home when he is five, then the Loma Prieta earthquake...

The Odyssey Decoded: Cracking the Code of Homer's Epic by Adrian Solas offers a fresh entry point into one of the oldest stories in Western literature. Rather than simply retelling Homer's epic, Solas walks readers through each episode of Odysseus's journey, then pauses to unpack...

The Art of Losing to a Y-14 by Andrew Radu is a fascinating memoir that unmasks the psychological vulnerabilities of people who identify as high achievers. Drawing from his years as an elite Ivy League fencer and his current work as a psychiatrist, Radu explores...