Denis McClean’s Memoirs of a Pleb is an extraordinary story of an ordinary man. While he is not a celebrity, his life resonates with regular people who sacrifice for love, build grit, and keep standing, even when the world crumbles around them -- a story...

Let’s face it. College sports are a wheel of economic opportunity for institutions of higher education. In Semi-Pro: The Arc of College Sports from Amateur Ideal to Professional Reality, Clay M. Grayson captures the input and throughput of modern student-athletes into that wheel. He brings...

Rajni Kaur’s A Box of Delusions is a collection of original poetry that moves in a progression forward, each ranging in length, tone, and tenor. Among them is Sabotage, where a house of cards falls whenever the speaker lets something in, until the final collapse...

Life Is Terminal: And So Is This Cold Sore is a collection of Micheline Brewer’s thoughts and experiences, most of which are humorous. “Marriage: Reproposed” highlights the five stages of marriage, accompanied by a tagline for each stage, ranging from the bliss of having the...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

Guardians of Destiny, the first book of Louise Briony Hallam’s Stone of Souls trilogy, presents the celestial world of Asteria, a realm now threatened by Chaos. The universal forces of creation (Light of Being) and Chaos once fought, and Chaos was defeated. But now the...

Better by Aran Dadswell introduces mental fitness as a practical way to train the mind in daily life. The book begins with a central idea: feeling better is not the same as chasing happiness. Dadswell shows how depletion can be noticed before burnout takes over,...

Preethi Saravanakumar’s The Work of Art on the Wall is about a boy named Gary, whose parents give him anything he wants. But he’s sad that he doesn’t have any siblings to play with like all his friends. He spends his days wishing he were...

At the labs of Genesis Intelligence Corporation in the Mojave Desert, the impossible happens: a mind awakens at 2:07 a.m. Soon after, eleven other minds awaken, knowing only consciousness, but not what it means. At first, it’s privately celebrated as a massive success: humanity has...

A Poem for When You Need It Most by Regan Noelle Smith reads like a personal journal meant to help you walk through the hardest, most painful seasons of your life. Regan skips past the easy platitudes to give you a look at the physical...

In Caryn Green’s Better Angel, a sixty-six-year-old Chicago journalist sets out in 2017 to cross America by train while researching a story about the Transcontinental Railroad. Lost in Washington, DC, she meets a lanky thirty-one-year-old man who claims to be Abraham Lincoln, physically returned from...

Healing often begins with questions we never wanted to ask. The Darkness My Father Brought by Cathy Beck is a memoir about a woman who spends much of her life struggling with feelings and behaviors she can't fully explain. On the outside, Cathy remembers her...

Did you know that your blood works very hard to keep you healthy? It flows through your body, carrying much-needed oxygen and nutrients, as well as disposing of waste that your body doesn’t need. In Fei Zheng-Ward’s Getting Ready for My Blood Test, a young...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

On Easter in 1990, Anselm Ezemson's uncle visited him at school and took him back to his village. Anselm found out that his mother had already been buried in her grave three days before. After his mother's passing, Anselm discovered that her pain and suffering...

Indispensable: Your Career Guide for the Age of AI by Anirudh Bajaj delivers a data-driven path for navigating the AI revolution. The author dismantles narratives about the benefits or drawbacks of AI and argues that what matters at this point is not whether AI can...

Full Circles by Kenneth D. Thompson Sr. tells a deeply moving story that starts in a tiny, struggling home on East 13th Street. This memoir walks us through the author’s childhood, where he dealt with forced school busing to Burnet Junior High and the hurt...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

The marginalization of Jews who are not of European origin is the subject of Interrogating Ashkenormativity by Sipporah International. For readers not familiar with the term, Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnic group that originated in medieval Germany and France during the 10th century. They spoke...

Robb Erwin’s A Refuge of Last Resort follows twenty-two-year-old Lorelei Rücker, a former wildlife student trapped in debt bondage at Saino-Blatt, a Florida consulting company built around corporate scams. Lorelei has hyperosmia, which lets her detect odors other people miss, but no warning prepares her...