In No Name Bastard, Tori DaCosta talks about how a person learns compliance long before understanding choice, and how that habit endures across a lifetime. DaCosta traces a pattern that begins with a childhood injury caused by proceeding despite doubt, and how similar moments recur...

In A Hug for the Soul: Truth, Tears, and WTF Moments, Stacey McCann reflects on her own experiences to explore what it means to be human. Each chapter includes everyday moments such as parenting mishaps, awkward social encounters, grief, anger, and exhaustion, while also questioning...

Playing Blackjack Like an Engineer by David A. Janover, PE, presents blackjack as a structured decision-making system rather than a casual casino pastime. The book begins by reframing the game through engineering principles such as probability, optimization, risk control, and process thinking. Janover begins with...

Michael LeBlanc's What If Anger Is the Answer? A Harvard Marine's Guide to Shaping Aggression is an intense look at how we view aggression. He basically argues that instead of just suppressing anger, we should be using it as a tool for a stronger...

The Oneness Guide for Today: A Book of Insight for Young Women by Faith Spencer is a self-help memoir, describing how Faith comes of age in a social world where worth is assessed continuously, shaping how she sees herself and how she anticipates judgment from...

Have individuals been manipulated into accepting a subservient role in society? The Tightrope Walker by Sasan Habibvand describes this phenomenon as fundamental humiliation, in which we are dehumanized, stripped of our true worth, and then exploited. In this exploration of that theme, philosophy teacher Shabe...

The Permission Mission by Dr. Cindy McGovern tells us why so many people wait for approval before acting, even when no one is stopping them. Part memoir and primarily self-help, McGovern talks about lessons learned early in life that lean into silence and compliance. These...

Be Good: Grandpa’s Guidebook to a Life Well Lived by Allison Katie is a nonfiction work built around a series of life rules modeled after the author’s grandfather, Ed Wagner. Structured as short chapters, each rule focuses on a guiding principle such as working hard,...

Becoming a Badass: From Fearful to Fierce is a brutally honest memoir from noted travel writer and film producer Margie Goldsmith. Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, the author took the first opportunity to leave that environment after graduating from college and headed to...

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...