In the waning days of struggling with illness and preparing for the inevitable, a chaplain can serve as a guide to achieving spiritual comfort and healing. Readers are offered a glimpse into chaplaincy through one long listening, Chenxing Han’s poetic memoir relaying her wonderings and reflections as a student at […]
The Dawn of AI (Paperwar) by Ryan LeKodak
Book Summary: One malfunction… Millions dead… The search for answers begins… In the year 2040, the world’s transportation is dominated by a highly advanced artificial intelligence system. However, this seemingly perfect technology collapses, resulting in catastrophic disasters and the loss of millions of lives worldwide. The disaster is dubbed Mayday, […]
Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story
Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf is a different way of telling the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. In this story, there aren’t just three pigs, but many more! The person telling the story in the book begins by telling the original […]
Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires
Ben Acker’s Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires is just that. Warning: If you don’t like vampires, please do not read this book. It starts out with an introduction (behold: quotes like “That’s right: the sharks here are vampires!”). But here’s the catch: the story goes that you are […]
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
Our Shadows Have Claws is an anthology featuring different stories by a plethora of Latinx authors. Each story is a creative tale with a mix of cultural folklore and personal experience. Each story has its own little world that emerges readers into the characters. Although the stories are short, you’ll […]
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories is a collection of stories from the daytime talk show host and former soap star Kelly Ripa. It features juicy behind-the-scenes glimpses into her relationships with costars (Regis, especially) and attendance at star-studded events, but it also captures a lot of Ripa’s personal life and […]
Forever Cousins
Forever Cousins is a sweet story about two cousins who are best friends, Kara and Amanda. Kara’s family decides to move to the Rez, or reservation, from the City, and both girls are sad to leave one another. They write postcards and talk on the phone about their everyday activities. […]
The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
After years of incarceration for a crime she never intended to commit, Tookie has finally found stability with a husband she adores and a new job as a bookseller and a local bookshop in Minneapolis. But one day, the store’s most persistent – and often most annoying – customer, Flora, […]
Self-Publish a Book in 10 Steps by Hank Quense
About the Book: Self-publishing a book is difficult. This book simplifies it by breaking down a self-publishing and marketing project into 10 steps. This step-by-step process will get your book published and initiate the pre-launch marketing. Hank Quense has written and self-published over twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction. He […]
Academy Arcanist by Shami Stovall
Book Summary: Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy. Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Academy, a school for arcanists—those who can wield magic. But Gray has a major problem. Every night, […]