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Blessings Abound: Awaken to the Gifts at Hand Katherine Scherer & Eileen Bodoh

With this book, Katherine Scherer and Eileen Bodoh serve as our guides to revealing them, glorifying them, and super-charging them. Drawing upon inner experiences and wisdom, from ancient and contemporary sources, including Native American lore and the...

Sentience Courtney P. Hunter

Robots, sex, lies, adventure, and chaos. Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself? And what truly defines humanity and consciousness? Running from a violent past, Leo Knox desperately decides to participate in a scientific experiment conducted by the infamous and greedy tech-giant, AlgorithmOS. Soon, Leo learns that...

Looking for Love in a Garbage Can Lisa M. Sánchez

Lisa Sánchez details the trials, challenges and difficulties of her violent and dysfunctional home environment as a result of her father's alcoholism. In this personal memoir, she illuminates the emotional and physical manifestations of living in a toxic environment, and what it does to your self-esteem, dreams...

The Vines Shelley Nolden

In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of century-old quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned by contagions and the doctors who torment her. When Finn, a...

The Language of Whisky David McNicoll

Whisky, or "whiskey" if you prefer, is a billion-dollar industry that spans the globe; it is made from New York to Tasmania. Although whisky is an umbrella term that includes everything from Bourbon to Irish and back again, it is most synonymous with Scotch and its success as a brand. But, how did an obscure...

This America Jill Lepore

At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and...

I Pass as White William Tex Pointer

This book was written in the 1950s by our dad. The manuscript was found after he passed away. This is his story of what hate, ignorance, poverty, and racism can do to a nation. What if you could change the direction of your life? Would you have the strength to make sacrifices to get there? Bill Pointer had that strength. In these...

The Palm Reader Antoinette Zam

When someone from a friend group dies, the secrets do not die with her. Four women — Casey, Elle, Kathy, and Lauren — were barely adults when they met and became friends at Northwestern University. Their friendship grew over the four years they spent at college, and when their time together came to an end, they held on tight to their...

The Retired Detectives' Club: See No Evil Shawn Scuefield

Meet retired police detective Robert Raines. After devoting forty-three years of his life to serving and protecting the streets of Chicago, he has called it a career. But good cop instincts die hard—if they die at all. Before long, he finds himself teamed with two fellow retired cops, Dale Gamble and Ashe, as...

Api's Berlin Diaries Gabrielle Robinson

Moving and provocative, Api's Berlin Diaries offers a personal perspective on the fall of Berlin 1945 and the far-reaching aftershocks of the Third Reich. After her mother's death, Robinson found her grandfather's diaries and discovered that he had been a member of the Nazi party. Her memoir juxtaposes her grandfather's harrowing account serving as...

Million Dollar Heartache T. Renee

Not all of the best love stories end in happily ever after, but the true ones, the epic life changing ones-they never die. True love comes with a cost, whether it be a love between friends or lovers; love is a universal, transcendent debt that demands payment in full from its borrowers. Million...

I Eat Men Like Air Alice Berman

With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings assemble to celebrate an upcoming marriage in a debaucherous weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The lavish trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of...

All Is Well With the Tribe Michael Gudeman

The rite of passage into adulthood is sacred in most cultures, predictable and looked forward to, but what happens when it does not go as planned? An odd series of events or Divine intervention, who can tell for sure. Little Bear starts down this road from the known to the unknown, not knowing what once...

The Age Of Light Enshrined Zachary Ramsey

The year is 1895, an audience gathers in the darkened basement of the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris. What they see there will set a new age in motion... what they see there is nothing short of light enshrined. In The Age Of Light Enshrined Poet Zachary Ramsey (Forward To An American Odyssey, Fields of Life...

Observer Lanza Robert & Nancy Kress

If we can alter the structure of reality, should we? Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a severely disabled child. When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning...

Forgotten Ellis Island Lorie Conway

"How rare it is to find an absolutely fascinating story that has never been told," wrote noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin about Forgotten Ellis Island. The book tells the lost story of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital that saved tens of thousands of lives as immigrants flooded onto Ellis...