In Bob Van Laerhoven’s The Long Farewell, in 1934, Dresden, fifteen-year-old Hermann Becht's family is affected by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. His father, Hans, serves the Nazi movement with growing devotion, while his mother, Marina, a Belarusian refugee who escaped revolutionary Russia, believes Germany...

The Inhabited Arc by Joe Trabocco is a collection of three short stories, all standalones and each enveloped in the singular consciousness of its narrator. In Epiphany, Lydia is in a coastal house where daily life by the shore slowly awakens an inner awareness, leading...

James Snyder’s The Brothers Shaughnessy is set in 1880s New Orleans. Detective brothers Dawson and Michael Shaughnessy are pulled into a series of crimes that begin when Melissa Singleton disappears after Sunday Mass, and her severed hand is delivered to her husband’s law office. As...

In her memoir 1 in 2 Million, born in Romania with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, Elena Pomana grows up watching permanent bone growth slowly restrict her movements while her family searches for treatment after political unrest opens Romania’s borders. Her mother takes her to hospitals in...

Terry McNiff’s Why Breakups Are So Hard: How We Can Help explains how separation between parents can turn family life into a court-centered process that many people enter before they understand its consequences. Written for parents with children, the book presents one central message: adult...

K.S. Krown’s Devious Demons is a dark, seductive reimagining of a biblical myth set against the privileged, glittering backdrop of modern London. The story follows Lilley Meade. She never craved love, until she meets Edward, who is gentle, yet hides a power that Lilley doesn’t...

Keith Thorn’s The Distance We Didn’t See is an incredibly raw, quiet book that looks at how family rifts actually happen—not usually through one big explosion, but through years of small misunderstandings and unaddressed pride. Thorn is brave enough to look back at his own...

Jenn Whitmer’s Joyosity examines how workplace culture gradually pulls people away from meaningful work by normalizing exhaustion and emotional disconnection. Using experiences from educational leadership, Whitmer describes how institutions often demand constant output while ignoring the human cost created by fear-driven management and endless pressure....

The Fire Inside My Soul by Julia Baeten tells the story of Diana Strauss, a successful advertising executive who survived a painful childhood. She has everything anyone desires: career success, wealth, and a beautiful apartment with terrific views. But even with so much success, she...

Have you ever imagined if something other than rain or snow could fall from the sky? In Rich Follett’s The Day It Rained Popcorn, not only does something different fall, but it also draws out the bravery of some of the townspeople. This book is...

In Lana Stasek's Voices Within, Bella: Beyond the Bark, Bella, a purebred beagle, begins life when she's born inside a breeding barn. Sadly, this is what most will recognize as a puppy mill, where puppies are treated as property and survival depends on staying useful...

Melissa “Mel” Noblett, a journalist and environmental activist, is in Milan gathering information from a whistleblower about a new bee virus, but is disappointed by the lack of progress. To salvage the trip, her editor sends her to Bologna to interview Dr. Daniel Woodruff, a...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

Set in the Ottoman capital during the winter of 1602, Rebellion and Deceit, book two in the Empires and Kingdoms series by David Eugene Andrews, follows Aisha, sister of Sultan Mehmet III, as she leaves her residence near the Hippodrome and enters a palace system...

Open Hands follows Keith Thorn as the wound left by the father who abandoned him continues to shape his life well into later adulthood, until the painful distance that forms between Keith and his own children forces him to face the fear that has guided...

In What’s Your Nineveh? When Running from Your Calling Becomes Its Own Kind of Hell, Keith Thorn turns the biblical account of Jonah into a question of what happens when a person keeps refusing the duty God has placed on them. In the Bible, Jonah...

To See Far: Conflict and Cooperation on the Space Frontier by James Van Laak is a riveting insider's perspective of one of humanity's most challenging projects - the creation of the International Space Station under intense technical, political, and psychological pressure. As a former leader...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

Anette DeMattio’s Too Strong for Your Own Good: Success with Soul empowers readers on a soul-level rescue mission. Writing about her experiences of childhood trauma, six cancer diagnoses, and years of high-functioning burnout, the author delivers the AAA framework (Awaken, Alchemize, Ascend) that helps to...