Keep your eyes peeled for thought-provoking and educational nonfiction, literary fiction, true crime, and humor coming this winter and early spring 2025.
The God Connection
After all, why should not some humans be like angels? If our spirit has the same origin and the same destination, we’re but pilgrims on the Earth.
Documented throughout various times, cultures, religions, and geographical locations are stories of spiritual events that transcend the human experience beyond the limits of the physical body. Many have sought answers for how it may be possible that a human is comprised of both immaterial consciousness and physical matter. After all, physical evidence suggests a distinct connection between life and the functionality of the body. However, first-hand experiences passed down through global oral traditions and among present humans suggest the existence of the spiritual realm.
The God Connection is a philosophical treatment of both the savory and unsavory aspects of religion and the belief in a higher power. Written in simple and direct English, it embodies scientific insights as well as inspirational passages while also considering the negative implications of corrupt religious practices in tandem with the benefits of sound mystical explorations.
Join Dr. Basil Gala in this personal adventure into spiritual thought and meditation, complemented with scholarly research of the histories and achievements of great religious movements worldwide.
Releasing November 19, 2024
Backyard Politics
Throughout this book, Dr. Wiener discusses how the people holding these two perspectives may view, respond to, or interact with various highly contentious political issues and the impact those views have on society at large. In assessing these issues and spreading understanding of the differences between Protectors (the outside in perspective) and Promoters (the inside out perspective), he proposes conflict management solutions to create space for both viewpoints in highly charged political discussions.
Backyard Politics is a must-read sociological analysis of today’s political landscape and a proposed way forward despite intense differences.
Releasing November 26, 2024
Sleep: A User’s Guide
Discover the secrets behind your restless nights and uncover the hidden marvels of your slumbering mind.
Are you tossing and turning at night? Drifting off during the day? You might have a sleep problem. Geared toward everyone from sleep-deprived students to active athletes to young-at-heart grandparents, this book will help you understand your sleep like never before, covering common sleep problems such as:
- sleepwalking
- sleep apnea
- not enough sleep
- overly drowsy during the day
And discussing the various impacts of disordered sleep on life including:
- the effects of aging on sleep and memory
- sleep and heart health
- sleep’s impact on weight and blood pressure
- sleep and athletic performance
Written by distinguished physician, H. Kenneth Fisher, Sleep: A User’s Guide will help you understand what causes the problems you face and how you can get better, more reliable sleep.
Releasing January 28, 2025
The Gift
Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cowboys, Western Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA+ Fiction, Jehovah’s Witness Fiction
A turbulent telling of one woman’s immersion in her faith, and one man’s journey to acceptance.
Seeking comfort in the isolation of the western landscape, young single mother Pansy Blackwell brings her son Butch to the Siskiyou Mountains. Fully engulfed in the Jehovah’s Witnesses assurances for a soon-to-arrive end of the world, Pansy raises her son to conform to the constrictive requirements of their religion. But as Butch discovers the wonders of the world around him with an endlessly patient and kindhearted rancher, he embraces the cowboy culture and struggles to live as his authentic self.
In the late 20th Century, rural communities in America were often hostile to the rising-awareness of LGBT people, and Butch is soon cast aside by his church for homosexuality. In The Gift, Scott Terry crafts a memorable and historically-accurate tale of religious extremism and the struggle for acceptance, before the truth of those times are swept under the forgotten rug of history.
Releasing February 25, 2025
Someone Had to Lie
Thriller, Crime Fiction, Inspired by True Events
Some cases never let you go.
Reeling from the sudden death of a close friend, James Butler and Erica Walsh are pulled back into the shadow world of Mexican cartels and the CIA. Seeking to avenge the murder of their friend with only his haphazard notes to guide them, they puzzle through the possible connections searching for anything concrete. As they investigate his murder, and his notes, they find unsettling links between drug trafficking, American gangs, the CIA, and the opioid epidemic.
Determined to find the truth hidden among cases they thought were long closed, Butler and Walsh call on friends and colleagues to help them survive the crosshairs that got their friend killed. With the threat spreading across more of their contacts, they must uncover the truth before they are buried in lies.
Releasing March 11, 2025
Lucky Duck
Crime Fiction, Humor, Suspense
The hardest part of robbing a bank is getting away with it.
Recent college graduate Joel Howard, former bench warmer for his small town college team, is optimistic about his future with his out-of-his-league girlfriend and a job prospect with a local insurance agency. But things don’t work out the way he plans when his girlfriend dumps him and he remains stuck at his unfulfilling position at the local shoe store in the mall.
Joel has always been lucky in the past, and despite the current string of bad luck he sees an opportunity at his job at the mall—because the mall has a bank.
Desperately seeking a change of pace from his father’s unrelenting nagging, Joel hatches a plan to rob the mall’s bank on the night of Black Friday, 1987. He must depend on his lucky streak to get him out of trouble time and again, or face the life-altering consequences of his actions.
Lucky Duck is a comedic crime novel perfect if you’re looking for something with the flavor of a John Hughes film from those 80s and 90s tomes like Risky Business or Breakfast Club.
Releasing March 18, 2025
