What does kindness really look like? The Book of Kindness by Egor Klopenko is a collection of short poetic tales that explore that very question. Instead of having one main character from beginning to end, the book has different children, families, animals, and even elements...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

Mission: Yemen by Randall Krzak is an action novel that takes readers to the Middle East on a dangerous mission. The story follows Xavier Sear, a former CIA agent, who accepts an assignment from his former boss and friend Ron Vincent. In Yemen, Xavier helps...

Short Stories I Hope You Will Enjoy is the second book in Peter Joseph Hickson's Amusing, Tragic, Educational series. It is a collection of stories about the author's experiences working in nursing and healthcare environments, primarily in Australia. Hickson delves into stories about dead body...

Breathing Life Into Words Where Pain Becomes Power by Ranisha Masters is a poetry collection about surviving painful experiences and finding the language to speak about them. Masters begins with poems addressed to her younger self and God, where betrayal and self-blame sit beside learning...

Journey of Smooth J: Basketball to Poet by Joseph Hill is a collection of poems that looks into the lives and struggles of Black men in America. Hill writes about more than just hardship. You get poems about love, passion, and relationships that run on...

Joshua Gamon’s Marlowe House introduces an unforgettable alternate 1930s London controlled by a ruthless, all-seeing military police department. Agent Jack King is the model of perfect state obedience, carrying out gruesome orders without hesitation while living a very isolated life in the freezing metropolis. His...

In Dickson Lane’s Kakaki, The Ghost Walker, nineteen-year-old Amalie “Leelee” Thomason arrives at the London home of surgeon Dr. Cameron McCrea in 1855 determined to secure a position in medicine, bringing an anatomical portfolio that shows her knowledge of the human body. After McCrea tests...

Thresholds is a captivating selection of twenty introspective records from the personal diary of Gerry van den Brekel, an experienced and dedicated Tibetan healer and talented author. These stories are written in unique, high-quality prose and describe how pivotal events in the author’s life guided...

A Love This Grim by Elora Morgan is a dark and twisting tale about true love and the consequences of fighting for it. The story follows Avalia, the adopted daughter of The Grim Reaper, Death himself. Avalia’s whole life has been defined by her fragile...

Set in the Caribbean in 1780, S.R. Staley’s The Pirate of Panther Bay follows Isabella, a young Creole woman who escaped a sugar plantation on Santo Domingo before becoming captain of La Marée Rouge, the armed brig once led by her mentor Jacob the Red....

Pursuing or having more things doesn't necessarily make a person content. In fact, often enough, it has the opposite effect on a person's life. According to executive coach, speaker, and entrepreneur Tony Caliendo, "less" creates space for "more." With the cost of living rising, mindless...

Reckoning! by David Vincent begins when Jim Saunders, an Atlanta orthopedic surgeon, survives a Zimbabwe elephant hunt that should have ended with every witness dead. The animal that leaves him alive has a red mechanical eye, a detail that reaches Dr. Stephanie Wolff, the new...

Bombs, Bacon, and Bankruptcy: The Art of Crisis Leadership by Henry J. Evans draws on the author's decades of experience, including work as a government contractor on a declassified counterterrorism mission after 9/11, to build a practical playbook for leading through disaster. The book opens...

In Scary Good, career coach Angie Callen, who describes herself as a “recovering engineer who loves people,” traces her winding path from a soul-crushing Colorado cubicle to a life built entirely on her own terms. The book reads as both a memoir and a self-help...

As an author and educator, I have always believed in the power of the written word, in its power to shape and reveal our innermost thoughts to others. Free verse poetry, in particular, with its freedom of structure, allows the poet to declare thoughts that...

Don Yaeger's The Business of Storytelling opens with a scene most readers will recognize—a holiday table, a room full of people, and one voice that holds the room completely still. That Thanksgiving memory of watching his father tell a story is the author's entry point,...

Brave Howie and the Monster at Midnight by Clark Rich Burbidge is a charmingly illustrated picture book. Howie is a boy who dreads bedtime. Monsters, bears, and even a land-walking shark keep his imagination working overtime. His safety plan is simple: burrow deep under his...

An Aspiration to Lie Flat by Stanton Fenwick is a hilarious story of a man with one big ambition in life: to be left alone. But when he wins a corporate sweepstake and is thrust into stardom on the internet, all his plans are shot...

What Would the Boss Do? 2.0 by Jerry Roth tells the story of Mali, a struggling business owner, and her retired neighbor Jerry, a former commercial lighting company president who lost his own job after twenty years at the top. The book opens with the...