September 9, 2026
In A Safe Place, Luis D. Aponte, an independent researcher, librarian and author of four books on U.S. school shootings, provides a nuanced look at adolescent and young adult gun violence in schools, based on 1,204 incidents over three decades (from 1990 to 2020) – including the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]
September 8, 2026
Escape the System is a book of directives urging individuals to subvert and escape an undefined “system.” The book consists of 12 chapters averaging about ten pages each, with each page containing around 50 words. Chapter titles announce the author’s stance, including: “Understand the System to Escape”; “Why Most People Go Back,” “How the System […]
September 8, 2026
In this fast-paced crime thriller, Roy Vance, a successful Manhattan real estate broker, willingly steps into a life of violence when he meets a woman in a bar.
Roy seems to have it all: success, property, and a loving family. But he feels nothing. He’s a man going through the motions, until the night he […]
September 8, 2026
As concerns grow about debt, market instability, and weakening trust in financial institutions, The Entropy Trap applies ideas from physics to economic change.
Mickey M. Maini, a former senior investment banker and CEO, draws on thermodynamics, the study of energy and system change, for investors, business leaders, and readers interested in markets, economic history, and […]
September 8, 2026
When a reporter is sent to cover a homicide that occurred in self-defense, she’s reminded of events from her own past in Donna M. Bevans’ novel It’s the Mountain Way.
It has been 20 years since Savannah Benjamin left Tennessee, vowing to never return. But now Katie Lyn, 14, is charged with murdering a man […]
September 8, 2026
Sharon Beth’s research into family genealogy provides the fodder for this memoir, a skillfully unfolded detective story.
Like many Americans, Beth took up the mantle of family genealogist because no one else was making a record. A Gen Xer, she became proficient in mining public documents, analyzing Ancestry.com data, and conducting interviews with her oldest […]
September 8, 2026
The Grammar Kingdom serves as an instructional guide to teach young readers about parts of speech.
The book is instructive, without an overarching plot. The kingdom it describes is populated by frogs, and each frog serves a grammar-related role. For example, the king is a noun; each of his sons is a type of noun […]
September 2, 2026
Alicia Cahalane Lewis’s wholly arresting hybrid project, Nefertiti’s Tomb is an intriguing and ambitious exploration of history, philosophy, myth, and prose poetry.
The work is arranged in nine sections, with each poem (some untitled) centered on the page surrounded by significant white space. This visual suggests more is unknown/unsaid about these subjects than is known […]
September 1, 2026
Guy M. Girardi shares the step by step how-to of his investing system and techniques in the information-packed guide The Investing Machine.
The book is a manual for investors who favor an active approach rather than a buy-and-and-hold strategy. It begins with the origins of Girardi’s system, which was inspired after he suffered large stock […]
September 1, 2026
Instantly immersive, Tess Collins’ A Wave of Breath hurls readers into a terrifying vision of the near future where resilience is the currency of life and death.
Following a disastrous Water Event that has left the city parched and plummeting into gangland anarchy, San Francisco is a haunted, hungry shell of itself. Brooklyn Tremain, once […]