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Off the Record
Off the Record is an unauthorized, real-time journal of an Army nurse’s year-long tour in Vietnam, written within hours—sometimes minutes—of the events it records. A budding photographer, she includes private images that deepen the immediacy. The diary reveals how combat conditions, weather, cultural divides, and isolation shaped morale and performance, while lives—soldiers, civilians, POWs, and children—were altered or lost. Moving and unflinching, it transports readers to 1967 and the realities of trauma care.
Truly a Pepysian effort!
—Colonel Nickey McCasland, Ret, US Army Nurse Corps -
Ollie’s Cloud
In the fervent years before 1844, two Persian boys vow to be first to recognize Islam’s Promised One. Ali is torn away—smuggled to London, renamed “Ollie,” and raised Christian—then hardened by tragedy into a bitter persecutor of faith. Meanwhile, his boyhood friend helps ignite a new, persecuted religion. Their paths collide on opposite sides of a climactic battle.
Great historic fictional journey
—Jacqueline M. Piepenhagen -
Omar’s Choice
Omar’s Choice continues Cathy Sultan’s thriller series into the shadowy rise of ISIS. Omar, now an ISIS member, and John, a CIA operative, ignite a nightmare across Syria. Against a landscape of perpetual war, the novel exposes the brutal consequences—present and future—of Western intervention and “forever wars” in the Middle East.
This book is a rare accomplishment. Bravo!
—Jack Rice, ex-CIA officer -
One Split Second
After losing his 19-year-old daughter, Shreya, to a distracted driver on November 1, 2007, Vijay Dixit transformed grief into a mission: ending distracted driving. With a foreword by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, this book combines expert insights from safety professionals and researchers, current data, and personal stories to explain the scope of the crisis and practical solutions. Dixit examines technology, education, and laws, and introduces a student-led model for distraction-free driving clubs in high schools, launched in Minnesota in 2015.
an important contribution toward raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving
—US Senator Amy Klobuchar -
Our Jewish Robot Future
Meet the Haralsons—retired, eccentric, and perpetually discontent. Margarita, a libidinous post-menopausal narrator who longs for a baby, and her heroic husband Alex, obsessed with the missing 11th commandment, are approached by John Chapman, a Max Headroom–style cyborg from the far future. He begs them to save his race of Jewish robots from extinction, launching a madcap journey through time and space to Airets, Earth’s mirror planet, amid gossips and hypocrites.
it’s the definitive Jewish robot novel of our time!
—Michael Rubens, author of The Sheriff of Ymameer -
Panic River
Struggling artist Corey Fischer has spent a lifetime masking his feelings—until his estranged father’s sudden death pulls him back to Pepin, Wisconsin. An inheritance of two hunting rifles and a strained reunion with his mother begin to unravel his life. Corey and his husband, Nick, retreat to the family cabin during hunting season, entering the woods with loaded guns and years of resentment. When betrayals surface while tracking a wounded buck at dusk, Corey makes panicked, life-defining choices and flees the wreckage he’s created.
Wickedly intense and psychologically riveting
—Peter Geye, author of A Lesser Light -
Paupers, Parties and Plagues
In Paupers, Parties and Plagues, David Koehler continues his acclaimed history of German peasants, companion to Bakers, Brewers and Bricklayers (Midwest Book Award nominee). In vivid, non-academic prose, he shows how Germans endured war, plague, and famine while innovating—from the printing press to iron stoves and cuckoo clocks. Koehler explains Germany’s late Industrial Revolution, the failed 1848 upheaval, and how devastation—including the Thirty Years’ War—helped trigger mass emigration to the Americas after 1820.
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Peace for Our Planet
This book argues that history is shaped by two parallel forces: a constructive process building collective consciousness, and a destructive process clinging to divisive power. It traces how racism, nationalism, religious strife, gender inequality, and extreme wealth and poverty are increasingly delegitimized—prompting a frantic last stand by those who benefit. Amid collapsing institutions, it highlights the forward march toward peace and the practical role each person can play in advancing it.
the best I have read on the current condition of our world and the path forward toward peace
—Beal, E, PhD, verified review on Amazon -
Phoenixbirds
In Phoenixbirds, her second poetry collection, Jane Dickerson explores how to live with the world’s heartache. She mourns climate loss—Lake Langton’s shore “drying” below the cattails—while celebrating the mysteries of birds. Shaped by years in Deaf communities and by caring for her autistic Deaf daughter, her poems honor chosen family, adoption, and deep West Virginia roots. Attentive and wise, Dickerson writes with clear-eyed tenderness toward all she sees.
closely observed, thoughtfully orchestrated
—James Silas Rogers, author of The Collector of Shadows -
Pivotal Moments
Life is shaped by pivotal moments—when you’re jolted, stuck, or inspired to change. In this book, bestselling author Jill Konrath offers fresh, practical strategies to regain momentum, uncover hidden opportunities, expand your options, and navigate challenges with confidence. Through actionable advice and real-life stories, you’ll learn how to get back on track and build a happier, more satisfying future—starting now.
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Poised
In 1990s Kentucky, naïve but spirited doctor Shelly Riley endures a grueling two-year cancer-surgery fellowship. Battling chauvinist mentors and punishing training, she fights for her patients’ lives while struggling to save herself—because without her all-male supervisors’ approval, her career ends before it begins. Funny, tender, and unflinching, Poised offers an inside look at hospitals and operating rooms, featuring a quirky, lovable scientist who refuses to be dismissed.
will make you laugh then cry and then laugh some more
—Anna Farro Henderson, author of Core Samples -
Power & Light
In 1906, a Norwegian emigrant family arrives in North Dakota dreaming of land and a better life. Tragedy—and a powerful man’s crime—threatens to destroy them. Seventeen-year-old Jenny Haugen becomes an unlikely hero, leading her siblings on a generational march toward agency, justice, and power. Power & Light, first in a two-book saga, echoes America’s hard-won ascent and Weaver’s signature themes.
A consuming work of profound poetical depth and moral power.
—KIRKUS REVIEWS -
Prisoner of Hope
In 1993, Ashley Cooper and his daughter Annie arrive in post-Soviet Moscow, continuing their quest to become ‘Of the Iskandarov’ after The Hidden One. Set in the newborn Russian Federation and ending in a wild, magical Arctic scarred by Stalinism, the second People of the Blood novel follows Ashley—alongside the love of his life—through deadly Iskandarov trials in a demonic realm as he hunts his father’s gulag diary, proof of the “Iron Cage.”
wild ride with well-developed characters… and loads of adventure
—B.C., review on Amazon -
Protecting Mama
Léonie Rosenstiel battles a court-appointed guardian for her mother, who has Alzheimer’s, while centuries-old family myths and miscommunication complicate every step. Her mother wants their story told, but the courts insist guardianship records remain sealed—forever. After years of Kafkaesque struggle, Léonie and a brilliant, unconventional attorney go to war with the system to expose the guardianship swamp and help others navigate it.
It reads almost like a thriller
—Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series -
Ramblings from the Trail
Ramblings from the Trail explores the audacious spirit of Midwest exploration and the surprising connections among people and landscape. At its center is Elizabeth Fries Ellet—namesake of the Minnesota River interpretive trail and famed author of The Women of the Revolutionary War. Her evocative travel writing and nature observations place her alongside Emerson and Thoreau, pioneering an early “walking text” tradition.
allows the reader to explore as Ellet did, fully immersed in a sense of place, its habitat and its history
—–Nancy Tyra-Lukens, Eden Prairie Mayor -
Ramblings of a So-Called Paranoid Schizophrenic
In this follow-up to Extrajudicial Execution, Michael Lutterschmidt—who says he was targeted for surveillance, intimidation, and torture—offers provocative reflections on the unsettling and the bizarre. Dismissed by professionals as paranoid, he examines religion’s abuses, unseen social manipulation, magic, emerging surveillance and mind-influence technologies, possible aliens and paranormal entities, and conspiracies inside major institutions. These “rambles” aim to startle—and illuminate—open minds.
a warning for people out there
—Jacob Mainord, verified review on Amazon
