Carissa Carmichael owns an apothecary/aromatherapy business in a small town. Today, at the Oak Creek Valley Playwright Conference and Festival, she is manning her booth as well as helping at Jasper’s booth, because he is ill. Unfortunately, his staff member, Lacie, is also working Jasper’s...

The Worst School Book in the Whole Entire World by Joey Acker is part of the Worst World Works™ series, a humorous picture book that shows kids how school might not be as bad as they think it is. Nameless the Rock is on a...

Human Sounds Thesaurus by KJ Walt is a wide-ranging reference guide for writers, students, bloggers, and anyone seeking stronger, more colorful language. The book gathers hundreds of descriptive terms, expressions, sound effects, and conversational alternatives into an organized collection that moves alphabetically from A to...

In Beauty and Pain-Relieving Tips from a Massage Therapist, K.J. Walt tells us that people lose physical well-being gradually when they stop paying attention to the connection between daily behavior and bodily condition. Drawing from personal illness alongside years spent working in massage therapy, Walt...

A high-stakes corporate thriller, Thomas Vincent Papa’s Black and White Smoke brings us to VASPI, a predictive analytics firm in turmoil. The company has been on a meteoric rise, and recent regulatory changes are shaking up the industry. Right in the middle of all this,...

The Things I Agreed To by Jacob Anthony Rose follows Susan, a novelist whose life spirals out of control the moment her latest thriller is published. Instead of celebrating her success, she watches in pure horror as the internet twists her words into something they...

Mortimer & Lily: Moose in Training by Kathie McMahon is a middle-grade novel that follows the cheerful and imaginative Lily Robertson as she begins third grade in Peabody, Wisconsin. Lily narrates the story with humor, curiosity, and nonstop energy, introducing readers to her family, her...

In Curing Christianity, D. L. Webster uses his own life story to take an honest look at the invisible walls that get built up inside modern church culture. Having lived through it firsthand, he shares his gradual realization that his entire spiritual path was being...

What if your heart were a cowboy racing through the body on an important mission? In Captain Cardio and the Heart Ranch by Dr. Ally Eruemulor, young readers are taken on a journey through Bodyville. Early on, they meet Captain Cardio, who works tirelessly to...

In The Long Journey Home, Wes Lewis opens up about the exact moment he realized his decades of military discipline and career success were just walls hiding a deep emotional distance. After a lifetime of constant moving, broken marriages, and a chaotic phase where he...

A 60-year-old man had nagging questions about his life. Reluctantly, he turned to AI for answers. The response was unexpected, and the answers pointed him in a new direction. Robert John Popoff shares his remarkable journey in The Algorithm and the Soul: An Unexpected Grace....

Douglas Y. Park’s Starting Startups talks about how startups become sustainable only when the founders continuously keep People, Product, and Position connected to the same business goal, even as customer behavior changes over time. Park’s message is that founders frequently damage startups by treating an...

The Whooping Falls Warriors, a bush league team, had had a terrible season yet again and were glad it was over. Chad Smith, a pitcher for the Warriors who was designated the losing pitcher in the last game, is not happy about being cut from...

In Michael O’Neill’s Lilli’s Question, an idealistic seminarian encounters a young girl, Lilli Geisler, on a bus while backpacking through Europe. Their brief connection ends in Madrid, where Lilli asks the question that would haunt him throughout his life: “Why be a priest?” Jim McGann’s...

In Eilidh MacTavish's Any Way Out, an unnamed child lives with Pop, a father who destroys her youth with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Mother, who is also a victim, still lashes out at the child and blames her for much of the abuse. As...

White Coat Leadership by Dr. Timothy N. Liesching covers how modern healthcare organizations increasingly depend upon physicians capable of leading institutions operating under constant strain from rising patient demand and expanding operational pressure. Liesching centers the book upon healthcare workers attempting to keep hospitals functional...

The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya introduces us to the Solokova sisters, Mariya, Sophia, and Darya. Former aristocrats, they have fallen on hard times after the death of their father. Consumption is running high in the city, and their mother is a victim. In a...

Flamingo Express by Kenneth D. Michaels is a remarkable cozy crime mystery with touches of LGBT romance. Detectives Nick Scott and Norm Malone travel to Key West to help their friends Jojo and Lola, private detectives, to investigate a complex and high-risk case of fentanyl...

Mars Colony Rescue is the fourth book in the Interstellar Refugees series by Daniel Ellrick, and this story introduces new adventures and high-stakes missions. Comet Icaro is headed toward Hellas Planitia with the potential to turn Mars into a frozen wasteland. The worst could happen,...

A Selection Of Poems And Short Stories by Maree Alaina Graham covers a wide variety of subjects that pertain to everyday life, from the author’s personal experience with marriage, divorce, and the pain of being at odds with her daughter to learning to live with...