James Te Ronde’s Menticulous is a mind-bendingly prophetic novel about the future, human nature and the nature of reality itself.

When a titanic tech conglomerate comes knocking at Cooper Timm’s front door, he sees their job offer as a chance to resurrect his stalled career and restart his life. What he doesn’t expect is to […]

In Tim Adams’ cosmic, comedic novel, Hank Kruzenski is a simple man with simple dreams, living in a podunk town near San Francisco in the early ‘70s.

Hank, who narrates the story, is a 24-year-old muscle car enthusiast who wants nothing more than to outfit his vintage Barracuda (or, ‘Cuda, as he lovingly calls it) […]

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 […]

With his Introduction to Black History, Robert L. Bradley proffers an ambitious compendium of black history beginning with human origins in Africa.

Bradley is a historian and cartographer. His book is loosely organized by timeline, topic and the countries or colonies involved.

The author discusses African tribes and political entities and shows how they were […]

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 […]

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 […]

Steve Niles’ graphic novel, Callisto is a satisfying blend of gritty science fiction, noir detective story and cultish supernatural horror, with the kind of twisty plot that rewards readers’ attention to small details. Illustrated with cinematic sensibility by veteran artist Andrea Mutti, the story feels like it belongs in the canon of Ridley Smith blockbusters […]

Brian Kaufman’s Crescent City Requiem is a contemporary southern noir novel set in New Orleans.

The novel focuses on the exploits of Francis Mallory, a former college professor turned alcoholic private investigator whose troubled, traumatic past has resulted in a tendency toward self-destruction.

At the novel’s commencement, Mallory is tasked with finding a seemingly mythical […]

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 […]

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 […]