Murder (and Other Unpleasantries) by Julie Titterington is a fabulous cozy murder mystery. The story transports us to the whimsical village of Port Morvoren in Cornwall, England. A cobblestone pathway connects the village to the tidal island of St. Peter the Rock. Tamsin Castle, the...

Andrew Finlayson’s Mindset Towards Mastery delivers a practical guide for leaders and ambitious professionals and anyone who wants to lead, not just others but themselves. The book is designed to help leaders build conscious leadership. The author discusses what it takes to awaken personal potential...

Not every castle is what it seems. Fiona’s trip takes an unexpected turn in Secrets of Castle Negru by K. Lyn Smith. A violent storm leaves her and her traveling companion stranded deep in the Carpathian Mountains. They reach a castle that has been converted...

Austin Lawrence’s Knowledge is a Power Outlet is a comprehensive guide for personal transformation that treats self-improvement as a series of practical "plugs" into one’s own potential. Structured across thirty-three chapters, the book’s goal is to harness self-discovery for us to achieve a more intentional...

The Odyssey Decoded: Cracking the Code of Homer's Epic by Adrian Solas offers a fresh entry point into one of the oldest stories in Western literature. Rather than simply retelling Homer's epic, Solas walks readers through each episode of Odysseus's journey, then pauses to unpack...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

The people you spend the most time with may be influencing you more than you realize. This idea is explored in The Principle of The Five Chairs by Phil Graffoe. Using the concept of individuals sitting in metaphorical chairs, the guide helps readers understand the...

Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a practical self-help book for women who have been taught to treat confidence as a feeling, title, or public performance instead of a daily practice. Conyers uses a wedding conversation after leaving a twenty-year corporate career, when one cutting...

Kohōpeh’s The Kabuki Book takes place in Japan after the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, as Tokugawa power begins settling over Kyō. Okuni no Izumo is an exiled shrine maiden traveling to the capital after brigands steal her ox cart. When a servant abandons her on...

The Governed Enterprise by Robin Horstmann is the most practical guide to AI governance currently available for senior leaders in consumer packaged goods companies. Horstmann opens with two scenarios that would stop any executive cold: a 2:00 AM call about an AI procurement agent that...

Monstrosity: Apartment Complex on Deadman Lane (Episodes 13–16) by KJ Walt throws Yoska Draper straight back into the madness of running a building that never gives him a moment’s peace. Paranormal trouble is rising fast, and the stairwell ghosts are causing havoc again, this time...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

Josh Lowder’s The Cornerstone follows Brian Howard, a Brookhaven detective called to the Reveldome Museum after night guard Abdel “Abe” Ayman is found strangled inside its American Revolution exhibit. Assistant curator Amber Grant saw a masked intruder standing over Abe’s body, yet the attacker disappears...

Logan Hollister is a cop who doesn’t play by the rules. Backed by his own personal fortune, he catches criminals because he loves the hunt. It makes him the perfect adversary for The Confessor, who believes himself to be a righteous vigilante. People are dying...

Craig Brown’s Dignity follows an unnamed boy in Petone, New Zealand, who first approaches Malcolm Beaumont, the council binman everyone calls Bogie, after classmates dare him to steal the man’s Coke. What begins as a childish test turns into an unlikely attachment, formed on a...

If you have a sense of wanting more from life, The Power of Authenticity by Michelle Chappel will open new doors of awakening. For readers trapped in a groove, this book will come as a breath of fresh air. It provides guidelines on finding your...

Author Roberta Rogow draws on her talents as a musician, storyteller, librarian, and fan of everything science fiction to present this fascinating collection of filk (science fiction musical genre) songs, Songs of Space. What truly exists on Venus and Mars pales in comparison to what...

People I Know by David Joseph is a collection of flash and microfictions that grab the raw essence of the human condition in brief, powerful bursts. Written in gritty, minimalist prose with atmospheric depth, it examines the sharp realities of life. The narratives move across...

In The Buried Bloom: A Larkspur Hollow Garden Club Mystery by Jody Chaffin, word search meets cozy mystery. In it, the puzzle player/reader is asked to solve the murder of Cora Whitaker, who went missing thirty years ago in a Vermont town named Larkspur Hollow....

The Reel Life of Zara Kegg by Brad Barkley is a coming-of-age love story. Father and daughter, Jack and Zara Kegg, relocate to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, following the death of the family matriarch, Tania Kegg. It is off-season, with much of the town boarded...