There is beauty all around us, and it’s soothing. Imagine the stars in the night sky and the gentle sound of the waves. It’s all very calming. In Clare Hollywood’s The Stars and Sea Are in Me, one can feel the simple power of the...

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

A is For Amy by Steven Crandell is the delightfully sweet tale of Amy Dellaconta Franklin, an independent mother of three who, at 26, never knew her life would turn into such a train wreck. Drowning in debt thanks to her late husband, Amy tries...

Get Through This Book by Brett Rumfelt is an interactive picture book that follows a bright green character who desperately tries to make it through the pages of a story. Convinced the book looks boring, the character decides the quickest solution is simply to get...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...

For a long time, organizations have relied on psychology and behavioral science to market and sell their products. How do startup founders make sure customers get what they want? Colin Hodge is a startup founder with over two decades of experience in the tech industry....

A.M. Woodbury brings us an epic fantasy in A Shroud Undone. Vaelorian has been trapped in an endless war for more than a thousand years. In the south of the continent, in a little village called Wyrnhollow, Theron lives with guilt he refuses to share,...

Don't Tell by Teresa Schapansky is a deeply personal and harrowing memoir based on the life story of Troy Edward Eklund. The book walks you through Troy’s painful childhood, his addiction, and his fight for a better life—all before his sudden death in 2025. Troy...

Lisa Ryan’s Smart Plant™: Aligning AI, Automation, and People starts with the premise that a plant can hit every target and still be dying. That’s the flashing warning for a business book that reads like a thriller and lands like a timely intervention. The author...

Chaos is Coming by Dani Donari follows FBI agent David Rickman after a bomb detonates at Atlanta’s MARTA station during the morning commute. Ordered to determine whether the attack is connected to a Charleston park bombing, David discovers that both crimes belong to a wider...

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...

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...

In Mitchell Hadley’s The Book of Revelations, at age eight, Nan Jaffe loses her parents after one frightening night in Indianapolis. She is taken to Illinois by her grandparents, who rename her Robin and sever her past. Years later, she lives in San Francisco as...

When There’s Skin in the Game by D. A. Williams is a thrilling read. David Allen Winston, better known as Win, was a dedicated Navy officer with a promising career; that was until the death of his sister, Laura. She was the accidental casualty of...

In his memoir Scars of the Badge, Tom Lee describes leaving an electrical engineering path after a university Police Explorers program leads him toward law enforcement. Dispatching gives him his first view of police work before academy training places him on the other side of...

China Time by Jeff Pepper is a fascinating exploration of how ancient Chinese civilization understood, measured, and organized time. Rather than focusing solely on clocks and calendars, the book examines the cultural, scientific, philosophical, and practical systems that shaped the Chinese view of hours, days,...

The Artorian Chronicles by Nicholas Mrvos is an epic science fiction adventure about mankind’s struggle to survive on a planet far from Earth. The story begins with Dr. Alyssa Artoria and her daughter Liora leading a spaceship full of colonists to establish a colony on...

The Marauder and His Daughter is Linda S. Cunningham's memoir built around her father's 1944 diary from his time serving with Merrill's Marauders in Burma during World War II. The book opens in 1992 as the author drives to interview her father, Larry W. Stephenson,...

Bella: Beyond the Bark is part of Lana Stasek's Voices Within series. The audiobook tells the story of Bella, a dog who spent eight years bouncing between crates, streets, and shelters before she finally found a real home. She becomes a bit of a local...

In her memoir Piece by Piece, Sheryl Hauk tells the story of how she survived an abusive childhood and built a life centered on music, teaching, family, and creativity. Even though her father no longer has control over her, the effects of the abuse continue...