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 BAY Otago 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 fas...
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 IAMA 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...
Rocky the Hopping Penguin Who Never Quits
By: Rich Linville
Rocky isn’t like the other penguins—and that’s exactly what makes him extraordinary. While everyone else waddles and slides, Rocky hops. He hops over snowdrifts, he hops across the ice, and most importantly, he hops over every challenge that comes his way.When the other penguins tease him for being different, Rocky doesn’t give up. Instead, he discovers something powerful: sometimes the very thing that makes you stand out is the thing that makes you strong. With courage in his chest and a bounce in his step, Rocky shows his colony—and young readers everywhere—what determination, creativity, and self‑belief can do.This heartwarming story celebrates resilience, individuality, and...
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The Crow and the Pitcher and the Fox Two Aesop Fables
By: Rich Linville
Two classic Aesop fables come to life in this playful, thought‑provoking collection perfect for young readers, classrooms, and families who love stories with a purpose.In “The Crow and the Pitcher,” a thirsty crow discovers a clever way to solve a problem that seems impossible. With patience and creativity, even a small bird can make a big difference. Kids will enjoy watching the crow experiment, adapt, and finally succeed—an inspiring reminder that brains often beat brawn.In “The Fox,” a sly trickster learns that boasting and bragging can lead to trouble. This lighthearted tale invites children to reflect on honesty, humility, and the importance of being true to oneself.Each fab...
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Choco the Wander Dog
By: Rich LinvilleMeet Choco, the little dog with a big heart and an even bigger sense of adventure.
When Choco wanders away from home, he discovers a world filled with new friends, surprising challenges, and lessons that help him grow braver and kinder with every step. From bustling streets to quiet forests, Choco’s journey is full of curiosity, courage, and the joy of finding help in unexpected places.
Perfect for young readers and bedtime dreamers, this gentle, uplifting story celebrates resilience, friendship, and the comforting truth that no matter how far we roam, love can always guide us home.
Patterns in Math, Art, and Nature
By: Rich Linville
Patterns are everywhere—hidden in seashells, woven into spiderwebs, glowing in galaxies, and even tucked inside the numbers we use every day. In this engaging and beautifully accessible book, Rich Linville invites young readers (and curious adults) to look at the world with new eyes.Through simple explanations, vivid examples, and real‑world connections, the book explores how patterns shape nature, art, and mathematics. Children discover how ancient humans noticed patterns in cave paintings, how spirals appear in seashells and storms, how tessellations tile the world around us, and how prime numbers create their own secret rhythm.Perfect for classrooms, homeschooling, or family explorati...
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My Pet Rattlesnake and How to be a Storyteller
By: Rich Linville
What would YOU do if you found a rattlesnake… and it wanted to be your friend?In this funny, slightly daring, and wonderfully imaginative tale, a curious kid discovers that even the scariest creatures can surprise you. With gentle humor and a wink of mischief, this book turns a rattlesnake encounter into a lesson about courage, creativity, and the magic of storytelling itself.Children follow along as the narrator learns how to turn real‑life moments—big, small, silly, or scary—into stories worth sharing. Step by step, kids discover:How storytellers use imagination to transform ordinary eventsHow to add suspense, humor, and heartHow to turn fear into bravery and mistakes into adventur...
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FINN ..a Trafficking Victim's Quest for a Safe Place
By: Geraldine L Anderson
Finn's journey delves deep into the realms of human suffering and resilience. Kidnapped as a toddler, she was ripped from her innocent world and thrust into a harrowing existence, raised in captivity and groomed for the unspeakable. However, at seventeen, a twist of fate alters her grim reality when Cree Doyle, a federal agent, mistakes Finn for the leader of the Froràta trafficking ring. Creerealizes that his attempts to extract information from her are misguided when hefinally realizes the heartbreaking truth, his captive is a victim, not a villain. The dynamics between them becomes precariously more complex when Finn b...
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Greekscapes Illustrated Journey with an Artist
By: Pamela Jane Rogers
A twist of fate first sends this American artist to Greece to join a painting workshop in 1982. While there she is gifted with an epiphany: to continue her life journey she must resurrect faith in her intuition, forgive her past mistakes, and either mend or end what's broken. Yearly trips in the U.S. and abroad present unparalleled inspiration for her creative work for the next seven years, until a devastating loss sends her messages she can no longer ignore. While her plans for a secure future as a single are established, the ephemeral past beckons: her epiphany, the generous people, nature's landscape gardens, olive trees, mountains, the murmur of the incredibly turquoise sea, the peals of...
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Spirit Bear’s Cave Adventure (Fantasy for Kids)
By: Rich Linville
Step into the enchanted wilderness where courage glows brighter than any lantern and friendship is the strongest magic of all. When a curious young explorer wanders too close to a mysterious cave, they meet Spirit Bear—a gentle, glowing guardian of the forest who protects the secrets hidden deep within the mountains.Together, they journey through shimmering tunnels, whispering winds, and ancient stone chambers that test their bravery and spark their imagination. Along the way, Spirit Bear teaches lessons about trust, kindness, and listening to the wisdom of nature.Perfect for early readers and young adventurers, Spirit Bear’s Cave Adventure blends wonder, gentle suspense, and heartwarmin...
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Fun with Words to Make You Smile Similes
By: Rich Linville
Step into a world where words sparkle, giggle, and stretch your imaginations. In this delightful collection, children discover how similes turn ordinary sentences into vivid, funny, and unforgettable pictures. Each page invites young readers to compare one thing to another in surprising ways—making language feel alive, colorful, and wonderfully silly.With simple explanations, cheerful examples, and plenty of chances to try their own, this book helps kids understand similes not as grammar terms, but as magical tools for expression. Whether a child is a confident writer or just beginning to play with words, they’ll find themselves smiling, imagining, and saying, “I can do that!”Perfect...
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Tongue Twister (Fun with Words)
By: Rich Linville
Get your mouth moving, your brain buzzing, and your giggles going! In Tongue Twister (Fun with Words), kids discover the playful power of alliteration—those silly strings of words that twist your tongue and tickle your imagination. From speedy squirrels to wiggly worms, each page invites young readers to try, practice, and master fun phrases that start with the same sound.Perfect for classrooms, families, and budding readers, this book turns language into a game. Children build confidence, strengthen reading fluency, and laugh their way through delightful challenges they’ll want to repeat again and again. Whether they stumble, succeed, or invent their own tongue twisters, the joy is in t...
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Wipe Out Earth - A Science Fiction Short Story
By: Rich LinvilleIn this story with a happy ending, a brave group of kids discovers that courage, curiosity, and quick thinking might be humanity’s last hope.
In this fast‑paced science‑fiction adventure, young readers follow ordinary kids thrust into an extraordinary mission—one that races to the far reaches of space. Along the way, they’ll encounter strange signals, puzzling clues, and a danger so big it challenges everything they thought they knew about the universe.
Perfect for kids who love thrilling mysteries, outer‑space excitement, and stories that spark big “what if” questions, Wipe Out Earth blends imagination with science in a way that keeps readers turning pages.
Slave Trader
By: Carol Marvell
For the past three years, attractive women with criminal records have been vanishing from Sydney – prostitutes, drifters, those with nowhere to turn. The mastermind behind their disappearances has always stayed one step ahead, leaving no trace . . . until now.Detective Billie McCoy, part of Sydney's elite undercover squad, stumbles onto a shocking slavery ring while on what should have been a routine assignment. Run by a ruthless cop, the operation drags Billie into a web of corruption far deeper than she could ever imagine.Trapped among prisoners who trust no one – ex-crims who despise cops – Billie must fight not only for her own survival but for the lives of the captives around her....
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