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Hive

by Garin K. Hovannisian

Six men are seduced to a remote Greek island colonized by women and ruled by a masked monarch called the Queen. Summoned to meet her one by one, the men disappear until only one is left in this provocative, twisted, and incendiary thriller for our time. “The protagonist’s worldview may be toxic to many,” warns Kirkus Reviews, “but satisfying twists await readers able to make it through. A morally ambiguous, serpentine, character-driven puzzle.” Hive is equal parts horror, Greek tragedy, and cutting social commentary, wrapped in a spellbinding psychological fever dream that won't be easy to wake up from, by the award-winning author of Family of Shadows, Garin K. Hovannisian.

The Cat, The Fish, The Poet and You

by Saswat Mishra

The Cat, The Fish, The Poet and You by Saswat Mishra This poetry collection is a raw, honest exploration of loneliness, creative struggle, and modern disconnection. Through twenty tightly woven poems, Saswat Mishra speaks with candor and lyrical bite about what it means to be a poet in an age of surveillance, sarcasm, and self-doubt. The title poem sets the tone with bold metaphors—a cat, a fish, a poet, and "you"—all tangled in predator-prey dynamics and emotional hunger. Mishra’s speaker is both defiant and vulnerable, claiming to write with “nine brains like a ninetailed fox” while confessing deep isolation. Standouts like "Language Learning, Longing and Lamenting" and "On My Inability to Sounding Sad" explore the contradictions of being an English teacher who dreams in Spanish and a melancholic poet who can’t write melancholic verse.

This book contains scenes of: sexual violence and torture

Ascension: A Story of Mental Illness

by Daniel Trump

Dalton Lewis loves comic books, reading, watching movies, and strategy games. He writes novels and is trying to make it with his second book, My Little Paradise - a book he has spent years on. Then everything collapses. People fire him from jobs, kick him out of their stores, and say that they never want to live with him again. The answer is devastating. A total collapse leads to a long journey to ascension.

The Otero County Disclosure: A novel for our times

by Huey Hawke

Lonely, super-bright seventeen-year-old Alexa, commonly known as Ex, has severe cerebral palsy. She also has answers to mankind’s greatest questions. Selected to trial a ground-breaking talking technology, she can now speak her ideas. But widowed dad, Norman, working away in Arizona, isn’t listening. He has challenges of his own; anxiety and a tricky programme rumoured to involve ‘exotic’ materials. His biggest problem might be his opinionated daughter back home. As they come to learn, if knowledge is power, some will do anything to acquire it. Inspired by the biggest question of all and mankind’s desire to understand non-human intelligence - both artificial and off planet - the story follows Ex and Norman as they face their differences and grapple the true nature of our reality – a world beyond the material – to learn our place in the Universe.

Catching Mozart

by Benjamin Laskin

''Got Mozart?'' Threatened by financial ruin and the breakup of their team, the three hapless and lovelorn pals of JC’s Lawncare bet everything on one last job—the reclaiming of a mysteriously irredeemable yard. When failure appears inevitable, the chance encounter with a lovely opera soprano launches the three friends on a wild, mind-blowing journey into the ‘Mozart zone.’ Rock me, Amadeus!

Sam Rosner Just Won't Quit

by Eric Dale Joseph

Sam Rosner Cannot Escape his Past. After Sam Rosner shares a toxic family secret about the 1950s Red Scare, a mysterious woman draws him into a web of intrigue. When her sudden disappearance is ignored by everyone around them, Sam is compelled to find her, aided by a slightly criminal, slightly shamanic young Lakota man who takes Sam under his wing. His quest, in this skillfully layered tale, becomes a search for both truth and personal redemption, as Sam grapples with his father's and his own past mistakes and seeks to make amends. This engaging novel will captivate readers who appreciate a mix of mystery, humor, and a finely portrayed exploration of how a father’s failures shadow his son’s whole life.

Daze Gone Bye

by Terry Vinson

The hours following high school graduation represent the final dusk before dawn when adolescence officially ends, and adulthood begins. The 1980 class of Baymont High are shedding their caps and gowns for one final, glorious night of youthful shenanigans, where time-tested rituals of generations past will be served with unrestrained tomfoolery and hilarity. Cruising the streets of smalltown USA, engines will be revved, pranks unleashed, and fast-food and bootleg booze ingested even as old grudges are settled and childhood friendships face unavoidable closure. You are cordially invited to spend the next twelve hours with the class of ’80, for a wild, magical and wholly unchecked night of thrills, spills and pathos, the equal of which they will never again experience.

The Day I Found You: A Novel

by Ariella Friedman

It took them a lifetime to find each other. But is love enough for two complete strangers to become mother and daughter? On a chance visit to a boarding school for immigrant children, 40-year-old Ariella and 15-year-old immigrant Angie meet, and it seems like fate. They can’t believe they may have finally found the person they always needed. It doesn’t take long before Ariella, an inexperienced mother who isn’t used to sharing her life, and Angie, a traumatized and free-spirited teen, clash. For the two, becoming a family means making enormous sacrifices. Can they find enough courage to let the other in? (Check price before downloading as free giveaway may end before midnight U.S. time.)

The Greatest Gift

by Steven Sobotka

Three lives intertwine in unimaginable fashion... Thirty-something Kallie Molloy enjoys a nice life in San Diego until her world quickly begins to unravel. Her only option is an unexpected job offer from a soccer club in Minnesota that stirs up echoes from her past. Will a leap of faith be her only path to a fresh start? After one tragic night sent his life into a tailspin, pro soccer players’ agent, Chris Bedford quietly ran from his life in smalltown Minnesota to the anonymity of Chicago. Years later, he's contemplating a return to the place that robbed him of hope. Retired attorney, Stanley Beckham, occupies his days managing a quaint bookstore-coffee shop, inspired by his late wife. Though he enjoys providing a haven for his eclectic patrons, he wonders if honoring the love of his life, or if he's marking time. Some journeys are priceless.

Advent of Libra

by Chris Wimpress

In a fractured England, where AI and automation have ravaged the economy and the Boomers are at the end of their lives, the youngest generation has risen up in a movement known as Libra. As rebellion ignites across the nation, care homes burn, and virtual reality-obsessed Londoners hide from the chaos. Amid the growing tension, three women from one dysfunctional family must face long-buried secrets, that place them all on a collision course with a conspiracy that could bring England to its knees. As the rebellion swallows cities and loyalties fracture, Lara, Kelly and Stella all face impossible decisions, that could either save or destroy their family—and their country. Action-packed and heart-wrenching, "Advent of Libra" is a gripping tale of revolution, family, and redemption in a society on the brink of collapse.

Advent of Libra

by Chris Wimpress

In a fractured England, where AI and automation have ravaged the economy and the Boomers are at the end of their lives, the youngest generation has risen up in a movement known as Libra. As rebellion ignites across the nation, care homes burn, and virtual reality-obsessed Londoners hide from the chaos. Amid the growing tension, three women from one dysfunctional family must face long-buried secrets, that place them all on a collision course with a conspiracy that could bring England to its knees. As the rebellion swallows cities and loyalties fracture, Lara, Kelly and Stella all face impossible decisions, that could either save or destroy their family—and their country. Action-packed and heart-wrenching, "Advent of Libra" is a gripping tale of revolution, family, and redemption in a society on the brink of collapse.

Gods of Glenhaven

by Stephen Statler

When Greek gods sweep into the quaint suburban town of Glenhaven to untangle their messy love lives, the helpless mortals don't stand a chance. Gods of Glenhaven is a hilarious, poignant, and confronting novel about the universal fears and follies of the human condition, and the joy and freedom we can experience by letting go.

Gods of Glenhaven

by Stephen Statler

When Greek gods sweep into the quaint suburban town of Glenhaven to untangle their messy love lives, the helpless mortals don't stand a chance. Gods of Glenhaven is a hilarious, poignant, and confronting novel about the universal fears and follies of the human condition, and the joy and freedom we can experience by letting go.

Indelicate Deception

by V.S. Kemanis

A powerful story of a father’s love, a mother’s self-deceptive life path, and a daughter’s personal journey of discovery. In Berkeley of the early ’70s, a time of political and social turmoil, a family comes together and pulls apart. “Deeply poignant” (BlueInk – Starred Review); “Beautifully crafted” (BookView - Five Stars); "An involving story of intergenerational discovery” (Kirkus Reviews); “Gripping, intense” (Prairies Book Review).

The Gales of Alexandria

by Ehab Elgammal

Was Nasser a terrorist or a casualty of a fractured world? In Alexandria, Egypt, a grieving father deciphers his son’s journal—uncovering family truths, political divides, and a mystery that could avert tragedy. It explores politics, faith, and family, rooted in culture and history. Can reconciliation emerge from loss, or are some wounds too deep? BookLife by Publishers Weekly — Editor’s Pick (★) "An intricate look at the precarious relationship between faith, politics, and their potent effects on people… A graceful nuance."

Water Memory

by Tom Strelich

A hilarious dystopian read! When Earth’s magnetic poles reverse and set civilization back nearly a million years, the bullet remnants in Hertell Daggett’s head keep his memory intact. As everyone else forgets the world they once knew, Hertell sees an opportunity to start civilization all over again, and maybe even get it right this time. What could possibly go wrong?

Oldies but Goodies

by Bernadette Tabor Pruitt

Three lively seniors sneak off from a Texas retirement home to right the wrongs of their pasts. Retired English professor Thornton McCall seeks forgiveness from a former girlfriend. Harvey Carman, a retired Buick dealer, wishes to make amends to a man he wronged. Liz Wittenberg, a well-preserved man collector, wants to apologize to the family she disgraced decades ago. Once they set out in their borrowed yellow Camaro, their lives and those of others at Rolling Hills Villa are never the same.

Right Hand of the Resistance

by Paul Michael Peters

Right Hand of the Resistance is the rare dystopian adventure that doubles as a bracing civics lesson, and it's a page‑turner to boot. Readers who like their fiction with equal parts adrenaline and ethical torque will inhale it.

Frank and Red

by Matt Coyne

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming... The UK's 'Feel Good Book Of The Year' - 'A lovely feel-good treat' The Times - 'Heart-warming, perceptive and empathetic, Just perfect - Woman and Home' Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the 'ghost' of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate. And then Red moves in next door. Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully. Red is curious, smart, he never stops talking, and he's got a trampoline. From the moment Red's blonde mop appears over the top of the fence that divides their two gardens, the unlikeliest of friendships is born. . . . And it is a friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

All Our Yesterdays

by Eleanor Wells

It's the summer of 1999 in rural Minnesota, and eighteen-year-old Marcy Lewis is at a crossroads. Having graduated high school without committing to college, she wonders about the meaning of her life and what she is meant to achieve. On a trip with her sister to New York City, she meets up-and-coming musician Cole Hargrove, and the spark between the two of them is instantaneous. After Cole is inspired to write songs about her, he becomes one of the biggest names in music. As Marcy is thrust into a world of wealth and fame unlike anything she’s ever known, she finds herself torn between her sense of identity and status as one of pop’s greatest muses.

Changing Hands

by Nanette Avery

An opal ring survives lovers, liars, and legends—changing hands, changing lives. In Nanette L. Avery’s Changing Hands, fate wears a glittering disguise. Mischievous, haunting, irresistible. Of all the books on the shelf, this one dares you to pick it up. But that’s just where the enchantment begins. Each chapter unfolds like a time-laced whisper, connecting dreamers and schemers, the wary and the reckless. From gloved hands to ocean sand, the ring passes silently—it never chooses, yet it’s never chance. With sly wit and soulful twists, this novel promises more than a story—it leaves something behind.

The Stranger That Knew Me (Guiding Each Other Home)

by Dominic Parent

Some books find you at just the right time. Guiding Each Other Home: The Stranger That Knew Me is for those who have ever felt lost, questioned fate, or longed for deeper meaning. If you ever wondered about reading inspirational self-help in story form, you're in the right place. When Atlas is stranded in a relentless snowstorm, he meets Carlos—a traveler whose wisdom feels eerily familiar. As they journey through the blizzard, their conversation unravels questions of suffering, surrender, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. But when Atlas arrives at The Lantern, a quiet café steeped in history, the real unraveling begins. A mysterious notebook. Figures from his past. A truth that shifts everything he thought he knew. A luminous and contemplative story of fate, free will, and finding home—not in a place, but in the journey itself.

Pontus and Electra to the Depths of the Sea: A Novel in Verse

by Shanti Hershenson

Welcome to the lonely life of Pontus. Until the most pivotal moment of his life (other than the day a thick darkness consumed the waters), he believes he is the only great white shark in his underwater world. Welcome to the lonely life of Electra. Until the most unexpected moment of her life (other than the day a monster snatched her mother from the waters), she believes she will never find comfort in another again. Together, Pontus and Electra find meaning in their lives through unconditional love and the hope and joy of company in an expansive ocean. But plagued by humanity's horrors and a drizzle of existential dread, their bonds are tested, and the innocence of a romance under the sea will never be so simple again.

This book contains scenes of: animal cruelty

The Marriage Audit

by Ashley Broussard

The Marriage Audit follows Sophia and Beau LeBlanc through one day, twelve questions, and the quiet unraveling of a marriage. Once built on shared ambition and unspoken understandings, their relationship now teeters on silence, grief, and betrayal. Facing a structured therapeutic process instead of a courtroom, they must finally confront what was lost, what remains, and whether love can survive honesty. Told through alternating perspectives and memory-laced interludes, this intimate, emotionally layered novel explores the fragile space between what we promise and what we become—and what it means to choose each other again.

Gimpy & Dr. B: Book One

by Richard Ley

Gimpy & Dr. B is a heartfelt dramady following Scott Gibson and Dr. Glenda Bentley. Scott is a former high school all-state soccer star whose career was cut short by a knee injury. He’d a severe limp for the past 30 years, and the kids at the exclusive school where he’s a maintenance man call him ‘Gimpy.’ Dr. B is an accomplished orthopedic surgeon at the University and for an NFL team. She risks her career rebuilding Scott’s knee with an unapproved procedure she’s been planning for years. Will Dr. B’s gamble pay off, or end in disaster? Gimpy & Dr. B is a sharp, heartwarming dramedy about healing old wounds, taking risks, and finding connection in unexpected places. If you liked Forrest Gump or Jerry Maguire, you’ll love Gimpy & Dr. B. Get your copy today!