Reviews
Peg, Unhinged
Teri M Brown (Atmosphere Press)
In Peg, Unhinged, Teri M. Brown introduces Peg McMann, a fifty-year-old real estate agent whose perfectly curated life implodes spectacularly when her narcissistic husband, Stephan, leaves her for younger women. She loses her prestigious job after attacking a rival agent during the Agent of the Year announcement, and a DUI conviction forces her to complete community service at Seabreeze House, a domestic violence shelter. But there is far more going on in Peg’s life than that. Set against the sun-soaked backdrop of Sunset Beach, North Carolina,...
Poison Pill (Dr. Mark Lin Medical Thrillers Book 3)
Anthony Lee (Independently Published)
In Poison Pill by Anthony Lee, Dr. Mark Lin, a hospitalist at Ivory Memorial Hospital, uncovers a lethal conspiracy linking two seemingly unrelated weight-loss treatments: the herbal supplement Motileaf and the pharmaceutical drug Naxipil. When patients, including a young man with bilateral kidney failure and a morbidly obese patient with sudden pulmonary hypertension, experience bizarre, organ damage, Lin traces the source to a sophisticated counterfeit drug operation. He discovers that identical triplets Stuart, Garrett, and Rupert Wang,...
A Human Business: The People-First Model for Lasting Success
Glenn Bostock (Forbes Books)
Glenn Bostock’s A Human Business presents a revolutionary alternative to profit-driven corporate models, articulating a “people-first” philosophy rooted in the author's four-decade journey building SnapCab. Rejecting Milton Friedman’s doctrine that business exists solely to maximize shareholder value, Bostock argues that lasting success stems from creating “communities of usefulness” where caring beats competition. The book outlines five core principles: creating a foundation of caring, understanding one’s “ruling love” (core passion)...
Making Sense of Life: Develop Your Own Theory for Happiness and Achievement
Simin Cai (Forbes Books)
In a world where people chase success and happiness, which are always elusive, Making Sense of Life, by physicist Simin Cai, challenges our notions of happiness and achievement and introduces the “Individual Correlationism” as a framework that redefines happiness as the alignment between our lived and desired experiences. Drawing from optical metaphors, where reality is the “object,” our perception is the “lens,” and our understanding forms the “image,” Cai argues that contentment emerges from developing a self-consistent system of beliefs...
The Prodigium
Thomas Steele (OEU Books)
The Prodigium by Thomas Steele is a psychological thriller with a labyrinthine plot, structured as a therapeutic dream journal divided into fourteen cantos. The story follows an unnamed, affluent narrator who discovers a disturbing photograph, depicting what appear to be the lifeless legs of an adolescent, on his wife's digital picture frame. Convinced this image reveals a hidden truth about his mysterious, Southern-born spouse (cryptically called “Doe”), the protagonist abandons his corporate existence to trace the origins of the photograph th...
Letter to Caroline
Elizabeth Fannin (Elizabeth Fannin Press)
Elizabeth Fannin's Letter to Caroline is a devastating epistolary memoir in which a mother reconstructs her past for her adopted daughter, tracing a path from childhood trauma to hard-won redemption. The memoir unfolds as Elizabeth “Liza” Stark recounts her violent upbringing, her escape to San Francisco, where she meets the magnetic Haitian nurse Genevieve, and their decade-long partnership. Their love story—intense, passionate, and fragile—crumbles under brutal fertility treatments and Genevieve’s unresolved childhood trauma, leadin...
NO TRUCE WITH THE VAMPIRES THOSE WHO ENDURE
Martyn Rhys Vaughan (Martyn Rhys Vaughan)
Those Who Endure by Martyn Rhys Vaughan is the third book in the No Truce with the Vampire trilogy, and it follows Greg Ferguson, a sheep farmer in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback known as Stralia, where the remnants of humanity were exiled after vampires conquered Earth. When Ferguson discovers documents revealing that humans were once the masters of the planet, he and his companion Allira are captured by vampire scientists Gronz and Theondra, who conduct brutal experiments on human cognition. Their imprisonment exposes the truth about...
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What's Coming to You
Shivani Jai (Independent)
In Shivani Jai's psychological thriller, What's Coming to You, Marilys Daniels falls for the charismatic Mason Goodridge and can’t believe it. Mason is everything any woman wants in a man. But she soon finds out that she is trapped in a marriage poisoned by his infidelity and her desperate desire for a family. Mari is pregnant when she discovers Mason's affair with her assistant Jeanine Alder, and their final confrontation turns deadly. Mason strangles Mari in a fit of rage and, with Jeanine's complicity, stages her death as a tragic car a...
Navigating Your Next: Discover the Career You Want and the Path to Get There
Julian Lighton (Advantage Books)
Julian Lighton’s Navigating Your Next delivers a rigorous, experience-backed roadmap for professionals seeking meaningful career transitions. The book is specifically written for those seeking to find their ideal careers and the path to get there. The author taps into his tenure at McKinsey & Company and Cisco to draw timeless lessons for readers, developing a seven-step methodology —Initiate, Insight, Imagine, Investigate, Implement, Increase, and Inspire—that helps career professionals to rethink, redraw their path, and pursue i...
Pulstar I - The Swan Barely Remembers
Giancarlo Roversi ()
Giancarlo Roversi’s Pulstar I: The Swan Barely Remembers launches you into a dystopian Astralvia where astronomer Jeral Murh, a person haunted by trances of an alien past, searches for her missing sister, Jessi, while pursuing a controversial theory about Pulstar, a hidden dimension of dark energy where consciousness transcends physical form. Parallel narratives follow Aris Castilho, a disillusioned engineer who suffers from recurring dreams of a reddish jungle and deadly pursuit, hinting at a former life on the planet Chrilarm. And then t...