In Lance Jepsen's The Last Orbit, Nicole Gordon survives by salvaging wreckage from the dangerous debris fields that orbit Earth. Her mode of transport is the deteriorating banger of a vessel, Tethys. During a routine recovery operation, she discovers the ASV Mnemosyne, a missing arkship...

Tenebrae: A Memoir of Love and Death by Dan Flanigan is a collection of emotional poems that speaks about the death of his wife, and brings together beauty and suffering in a creative and aesthetic way. Written in free verse and as prose poems, they...

So You Want to Be an Animator is one of more than 180 career-orienting books by Linda Soules. Dedicated to the profession of being an animator, it is an illustrated non-fiction book for children aged between ten and fourteen. With the aid of colorful, stunning...

Hear, O Israel by Robert J. Popoff follows the author’s lifelong struggle to bridge the gap between studying theology and actually experiencing a life guided by faith. Popoff reflects on his decades of marriage, public service as a mayor, and sudden, severe medical emergencies that...

The Golden Age by Alexander Exelmans is a thought-provoking philosophical play set in a future where artificial intelligence has transformed human civilization into a work-optional society. The story follows Zachary, a former Mars colonist who returns to Earth after years away only to discover that...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

The Skull of Wenceslas by Marion Deland revolves around Kat Schneider, a medieval literary expert, who is trying to move forward after the loss of her beloved Oma. She gets the change she needs when she travels to Prague to translate an ancient manuscript. However,...

Love You, Love You 'Night by Kristi Cromwell is a well-written book that offers children a comforting bedtime story filled with love and allows them to bond with their parents or guardians. It is Emily’s bedtime, but she is not ready to go to bed...

So You Want To Be An Astronomer & Exoplanet Hunter is one of the more unique jobs in the So You Want To Be series by Linda Soules. Although it might seem like astronomers spend all night gazing through a telescope, there’s much more to...

Escape the System argues that modern life trains people to shape their choices around approval until they lose the ability to separate personal direction from public expectation. Writing under the name Mr. Nobody, the author describes how ordinary routines slowly condition people to seek reassurance...

Queer Justice by Alex Charns is a historical legal novel that blends fiction with real figures and events from the turbulent political climate of the 1960s. The story centers on a young attorney, Mitch Pilsudski, who is assigned to represent George Smith, a teenage defendant...

When Georgia Thayer, a medical social worker in Columbia, South Carolina, urges her sixteen-year-old foster daughter, Tessa, to attend a nighttime party hosted by her classmate, she has no idea how much trouble awaits the kids. Working the night shift, Georgia is shocked when Sara...

Being a founder of a startup is not easy. Ksenia Yudina founded the fintech company UNest, which at one point reached a market valuation of $120 million before the Silicon Valley Bank crash led to its downfall. In One Venture, Ten MBAs, Yudina shares her...

Not Success. Survival: A Real Story of Building, Losing, and Rebuilding a Business by Jakub Blaszczyk is a business memoir that traces the author’s path from a young man growing up in post-communist Poland to a successful entrepreneur facing challenges few people ever see from...

The Problem-First Method by Kevin Scott Dias is a practical, honest guide for product builders. Dias built Ambiki, a niche software system serving pediatric therapy practices, and spent years making the same mistake most product teams make: jumping to solutions before fully understanding the problem....

Have you ever felt excited and nervous at the same time? That’s exactly what Ariel is feeling in Marigold Twinkletooth and the Star-Coin Surprise: A Tooth Fairy Tale by Jamie Kucia. It centers on a young girl, Ariel, who can’t wait for her first loose...

In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect,...

Canthany Rising by Kenneth Bliss opens right after mankind's fall, shifting the spotlight to the animals of Eden. We follow T’alla, an ordinary cat, who suddenly transforms into a bipedal, talking exile on a bizarre new world. She isn't alone either; six fellow creatures share...

Many people spend a good deal of time at the office, but work does not always provide a welcoming environment or an opportunity for growth. It all depends on the corporate culture. Michele Herlein explores this phenomenon in Cultural Excellence. Leaders should set the tone,...