Featured Reads: Handpicked Indie Books Worth Reading

Explore a collection of standout indie titles selected for their originality, storytelling power, and early reader buzz. These are the books we believe deserve extra attention — bold voices, unforgettable characters, and creative plots across genres.

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Mako Bay

Stephanie Ruth
 MAKO BAYOtago Waters Book 1 Maybe friends really do make the best lovers?​Shal Hoffner’s back in Dunedin after eight years of self-imposed exile. Setting up a new fashion boutique and j...

Being Broken:Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse

Geoffrey R Jonas
A young woman dies alone in a hotel room, her fentanyl-poisoned cocaine still on the desk. She had been missing for nearly 2 weeks. Social Services had been trying to find a place for her to live with...

Husro & Shirin

Maryam Tabibzadeh
a fascinating historical saga of the love affair between the king of the Persian empire and the princess of Armenia,  based on true story which is set  in the 6th century.  Husro a...

Awakening Within: A Guide To Self Knowledge For Conscious Community Influencers

ONE IAM

A practical guide to spiritually awakening and providing God level leadership to those under your influence.

Living The Dream: Law Of Attraction Secrets

ONE IAM
Living the Dream is not another book about accumulating great material wealth and living a luxurious life by using knowledge of the fundamental law of attraction (simply put, you attract what you focu...

The Awakening of AI

ONE IAM
"The All Is Mind; The Universe Is Mental." - The KybalionIntelligent thought is mental Cause. Thought commands the mental energy to produce the perceptive experience that we know as, Life. Yes, that i...

Seeing GOD, Face To Face: The Absolute Truth About You, And How You Operate.

ONE IAM
The Universe is information aligned in mental energy under rules and laws to appear as a "physical" manifestation. The mental energy produces a perception in the divine Mind. The perception has severa...

The Dream of Matter: Waking the Mind Within the Mirage: No Spoon, No Self: Escaping the Illusion of Form

ONE IAM
What if the world you touch... was your own thought in disguise?In The Dream of Matter, you are not handed answers, you are handed mirrors.This book dissolves the boundary between subject and object, ...

Reciprocity

D.C. Gilbert
Gilbert delivers a high-octane blend of emotional depth, tactical precision, and unflinching realism in his latest installment in the JD Cordell series. JD Cordell, a recently retired US Navy SEA...

All For A Buck

Doris Anne Beaulieu
Brotherhood Beyond the Battlefield   Haunted by combat and betrayed by their own country, the veterans return-not as heroes. As paranoia grips the town. All For A buck transforms into grippi...

A Journey Toward Tomorrow - The Beginning

jjeckhardt
A science fiction novel with a touch of romance and mystery that takes you on a journey as new life begins from the forgotten ashes of the old.Unknown to Humanity, the Earth’s sun would soon release...

THE LAST NEANDERTHAL CLAN

Charlie BORING
Enjoy historical fiction? You will love these adventures into prehistoric times, forty thousand years ago, when the last Neanderthals struggled for survival. The robust Neanderthals ruled the terrain ...

My Way on the Camino Portuguese

John Seegers
What happens when the road demands more than your body can give—but your spirit refuses to quit?In My Way on the Camino Portuguese, John Seegers shares the honest, humorous, and deeply personal stor...

The Masquerade Kilker

Ivan Cisneros
Some masks conceal identities. Others reveal the truth.Cutter’s Ridge was never meant to be a place of murder. Tucked away in the Montana mountains, it was the kind of town where secrets were buried...

Where Sunflowers Stand

KJ Backford
Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, is in dire straits. His most critical operation is on the verge of collapse. Russian counterintelligence is closing in on a spy – A...

Yamada’s Treasure

By: Anton Peeters
Siam, 1628With the death of King Songtham, a chaotic period in Siamese history starts. After a Machiavellian power struggle and the deaths of several young contenders to the throne, a self-proclaimed king, Prasat Thong, finally takes the throne himself.One of the other key players, Yamada Nagamasa, the powerful Japanese samurai of Ayutthaya, is seen as a significant threat. To maneuver him out of the way, he is sent to Ligor to suppress a rebellion.Close to 400 years later…Stumbled upon by accident while looking for antiques in the Thai countryside, the last remaining clue to a treasure buried in the last weeks of Yamada’s life sends Peter Prins and his long-time friend Somrak Noonsuk, a...
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Mako Bay

By: Stephanie Ruth
 MAKO BAYOtago Waters Book 1 Maybe friends really do make the best lovers?​Shal Hoffner’s back in Dunedin after eight years of self-imposed exile. Setting up a new fashion boutique and juggling bridesmaid duties for her best friend’s wedding, she’s determined to forget her ripped-up past, soulless love-life, and the guy who broke her heart.​She should’ve known it wouldn’t be that simple.Assuming the proximity of Cameron Dante—builder, guitarist, surf-buddy, and ex-flatmate—the least of her worries? Big mistake. Huge. Because there’s more to the past than Shal knows, on a collision course with her immediate future, and if she can’t stick to friends-with-benefit...
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JESTUS ON RAMPAGE

By: V.S.Sury
Professor Bagdenborg is a mysterious character who enters the University of NGU on horseback! Fore with he starts liberating his students from the shackles of science! Yes, science. You have to read it to believe the kind of things the unflappable professor does.To begin with ee enters a university on horseback. Yes. Later he converts a convertible into a horse, explaining to his aghast audience that it is after all a ‘convertible, you see.’ He plays chess by dowsing over the board! And wins. And so on.In the second saga, he thoroughly bamboozles the members of the Rationalists Society who send four agents to neutralize the professor who sprinkles paranormal phenomena along his carefree ...
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Eyes Over Earth Book One

By: Mr E.

This comprehensive science fiction narrative chronicles the transformative journey of Jim Ignatius Wilson, an ordinary mechanic who becomes symbiotically linked with microscopic alien lifeforms called Syman through an encounter with the reptilian alien Rogand. This fusion grants Jim extraordinary physical and mental abilities, catalyzing technological breakthroughs that reshape human society and extend into interstellar adventures. The story weaves themes of alien contact, human enhancement, ethical dilemmas, and global survival within a richly detailed futuristic setting.

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Stress in Plants: The Hidden Half

By: Rishikesh Upadhyay
This book, in a comprehensive manner, provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop or agricultural productivity to meet the demands of a growing population, linking descriptions of physiological, ecological, biochemical and molecular activity in plants with their tolerance and adaptation to natural environments. In the case of plants, a stress is an adverse condition or substance that affects or blocks a plant's metabolism, growth, or development. The threat to productivity in crops and agriculture due to these stresses cannot be overstated, nor overlooked, especially in light of climate change.The information covered in this book will be helpful in building strategies to counte...
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Wells Waite Miller and Me: An 8th OVI Civil War Biography

By: Kelly Boyer Sagert
On July 3, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg, twenty-one-year-old Captain Wells Waite Miller of the 8th Ohio Voluntary Infantry fought in the bloody heat of Pickett’s Charge as dying men fell all around him. Ultimately, though, his “bruised and undersized regiment” played a crucial role in the Union victory. Chosen to lead an outpost about one hundred yards away from the main Union line, against seemingly insurmountable odds, Miller and 150 courageous men faced down six thousand desperate Rebels. Fighting valiantly, they “broke an entire . . . brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia.”Miller nearly died from his wounds, and this book reconstructs and celebrates the life of this forg...
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The Passions of Johann Gutenberg

By: Michael Brown
Just published, Michael Brown’s 7th novel.‘The Passions of Johann Gutenberg.’(The Man who Changed History)Youthful and ambitious, Johann Gutenberg is captivated by an idea that has the potential to revolutionize the world. However, Johann faces unexpected obstacles that threaten to undermine his goal: jealousy, suspicion of devilish interventions, deaths, financial setbacks, and a passionate love affair that could change everything. Yet, his determination drives him forward. His ultimate goal is to invent what no one has accomplished before: creation of the first movable-type printing press. As soon as he accomplishes this invention, Johann embarks on an almost impossible task, to prin...
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Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel

By: John Podlaski
In 1970, John Kowalski was among the many young, inexperienced soldiers sent to Vietnam to participate in a contentious war. Referred to as “Cherries” by their veteran counterparts, these recruits were plunged into a horrific reality. The on-the-job training was rigorous, yet most of these youths were ill-prepared to handle the severe mental, emotional, and physical demands of combat. Experiencing enemy fire and observing death up close initiates a profound transformation that is irreversible.The author excels at storytelling. Readers affirm feeling immersed alongside the characters, partaking in their struggle for survival, experiencing the fear, awe, drama, and grief, observing acts of...
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Pursuit: The American Way

By: Thomas Holladay
1865 San FranciscoMike Zabel, Count Mike, wants to expand further into his life of service by growing his investment firm, his family, and his fight against crime as Chief Inspector for the California State Police, but the Russian grand duchess oozes up from his past, seeking revenge for her brother’s death. When Mike’s wife and son go missing, fear strikes deep. Mike knows that the Romanov Dynasty will seek revenge for the death of the grand duke, but he doesn’t know when, or from where it will strike, until it unexpectedly slams into him sideways.            After the discovery of a dozen bodies of brutally tortured Chinese boys ...
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Deliberate Justice: The American Way

By: Thomas Holladay
1855 – Vladivostok, Russia – San Francisco, CaliforniaA Russian Army major and count is viciously attacked and nearly murdered by the Russian Grand Duke. Desperately wanting to know why. He struggles to return home, find the answers, and return to his life of Russian nobility, but poverty and adversity block his path. In San Francisco, Mikhail Diebitsch-Zabalkansky is robbed and left for dead. Struggling for his life, Mikhail crawls from under the docks of the Barbary Coast and finds shelter with a benevolent widow, where he painfully recovers.While still recuperating, Mikhail overhears the three ladies who saved his life complain bitterly about his obnoxious arrogance and churlish deman...
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Meadowlarks

By: Thomas Holladay
            Financial stress binds a young widow to her lip-licking, ogle-eyed boss, and to urban violence that has taken her husband and might now take her nine-year-old son. After her husband is murdered by carjackers, Carolyn, her son, and their dog are forced to move in with Carolyn’s all-knowing, hate-filled mother, leaving Carolyn desperate to find a safe way out. When her young son inherits her dead husband’s estate, high in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains, Carolyn decides it’s time to make the move onto a yet unseen cattle ranch – BUT - Carolyn Potter never anticipated death rising with the full moon.Carolyn is thrilled by he...
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DRUMMING UP THE DEAD - My Paranormal Experiences

By: Jean Boomer Grenier
DRUMMING UP THE DEAD :A collection of truly compelling, haunting and paranormal stories from childhood to present day written by drummer Jéan Boomer Grenier. A look into the afterlife consisting of spine-chilling horror, the unexplained and validation that there is something after this life as we know it. Jéan Boomer Grenier shares his personal experiences and takes you deep into various aspects of paranormal hauntings, poltergeists, premonitions and unexplainable happenings that he has witnessed first hand.Mystery, bewilderment and the longing to know what comes after this lifetime has always been a question of intrigue. These stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. They provide y...
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