Top Shelf Picks: Indie Books with Staying Power
These titles are more than a quick read — they’re built to last. Our Top Shelf Picks include highly rated, widely shared, and critically admired indie books curated for long-term shelf value.
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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...
Harry Heron: Midshipman's Journey
By: Patrick G. Cox
When young Harry Nelson Heron sets out to become a naval officer with his boyhood friend and companion, Ferghal O'Connor, neither of them can imagine what lays in store. Born in a troubled Ireland in 1789, Harry is the youngest son of Major James Heron, now a gentleman farmer in County Down, his road to London and, he hopes, a ship, is filled with adventure, but it's a good preparation for life as a junior midshipman first aboard the newly repaired HMS Bellerophon, and then aboard the 74-gun HMS Spartan as she voyages to Australia with a convoy of convict ships. In the vein of Horatio Hornblower, Patrick Cox weaves an exciting, authentic tale of Henry (Harry) Nelson-Heron, a young midsh...
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Harry Heron: Hope Transcends
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: Hope Transcends, the sixth and final book in the series, Harry faces insurmountable hurdles in his quest to defeat his enemies and reunite with Mary, the love of his life and his bride to be. Marooned on an alien planet to die a slow, miserable death along with a few of his crew members, he rises to the challenge as their Commander and proves that his knowledge, skill, fortitude and determination are enough to outwit their enemies. Meanwhile, his best friend, Commander Ferghal O’Connor, and his fellow officers of the NECS Fleet are working behind the scenes to bring down the Charonians and their human political component. Through it all, Harry’s love for Mary, and her pat...
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Harry Heron: Awakening Threat
By: Patrick G. Cox
When the exploration ship Beagle encounters an alien race on the outer edges of the galatic arm, humanity and all its colony worlds are threatened by the Niburu, and ancient and predatory spacefaring species. Harry and Ferghal lead their fleet of space corvettes in the battle against the awakening threat of the Niburu using technology adapted from the Siddhiche. It is a desperate and at times onesided fight to the death. There are three things you need to know about Harry Heron and Ferghal O'Connor: *Born in the late 1700s, they catapulted through time and space from the gun deck of the HMS Spartan during a sea fight with the French in 1804 to the starship NECS Vanguard in 2204. *Best friend...
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Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: Savage Fugitive, Book Four of the Harry Heron Series, Harry and Ferghal lead a band of fugitives of the Fleet in a battle against the Consortium on Planet Lycania inhabited by the very canine-like Canids.There are three things you need to know about Harry Heron and Ferghal O'Connor: *Born in the late 1700s, they catapulted through time and space from the gun deck of the HMS Spartan during a sea fight with the French in 1804 to the starship NECS Vanguard in 2204. *Best friends since their boyhood in Ireland, they're smart, savvy, and fearless, as loyal to each other as they are to the British Royal Navy and the North European Confederation Fleet. *A juggernaut of wits, wit, an...
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Harry Heron: No Quarter
By: Patrick G. Cox
In Harry Heron: No Quarter, Book Three of the Harry Heron Series, Harry and his best friend Ferghal O'Connor are cadets at Fleet College, eager to master their skills in preparation for commissioning to a ship. They've barely stepped foot on campus when they realize they’re targeted and sabotaged at every turn, but this doesn't stop them from exuberant participation in the Sailing Regatta, the Gun Run, and the usual flirtations and hijinks of college life. Meanwhile, the Consortium, supporting the Johnstone Group, does everything in its power to keep them from testifying at an enquiry to expose Johnstone's questionable research practices that nearly killed Harry in their secret laboratory ...
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Harry Heron: Into the Unknown
By: Patrick G. Cox
A freak accident on board the HMS Spartan during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron and his shipmates Ferghal O'Connor and Danny Gunn four hundred years into the future, landing them on the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet. While Captain Blackwood and Major Heron sort out the mystery and determine whether the young men are alive or dead, Harry and his friends are faced with the challenge of learning new roles aboard a spaceship. Just as they have found their footing in this new Fleet in a rescue mission on the planet Pangaea, they are kidnapped by a Research organisation and subjected to a range of very unethical tests and...
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Captain James Heron First Into The Fray
By: Patrick G. Cox
The year is 2202, and the recently widowed Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He and his team soon discover that they are battling the Consortium, a shadowy corporate group that seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon. The Consortium hires the Pantheon, a mysterious espionage agency, to do their dirty work as they lay plans to take down the Fleet and gain supreme power on an intergalactic scale. When Pantheon Agent Bast and her team kidnap Felicity Rowanberg, a Fleet agent and friend of the Captain, this clash of titans becomes personal. Bast is an expert in bio-disguise and evades several tr...
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Conflict in Shadow
By: Patrick G. Cox
Captain Felicity Roberts commands a Q-Ship in 2206. Outwardly a large freight liner, the Mancunian’s primary function is intelligence gathering. With the war between the Intercorporate Consortium and the World Treaty Council intensifying and the Consortium’s hostile seizure of colony worlds, her role is critical.Nor is the Consortium the only enemy; the Pantheon, an organisation that provides very efficient assassins, is at work in support of the Consortium and Fleet Security want them stopped. Felicity Roberts has the satisfaction of taking down the assassin calling himself Heimdall all while ensuring the flow of intel her crew are gathering reaches the right eyes and ears.Captain Rober...
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For Those Not Present... Confirmation Hearing for Justice Amy Coney Barrett: A Play in One Terrible Act
By: Michael LaFond
On October 15, 2020, three weeks before the election, the US Senate Judiciary Committee met for the fourth day of the hearing considering the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for associate justice of the US Supreme Court for the purpose of filling the seat left vacant by the recently deceased liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Republicans were exploiting their majority to push through the fast-tracked appointment before the November 3 election. Democrats were opposing the nomination that would flip the Supreme Court position on many issues, which the Republicans could not enact through the legislative process, most significantly on legal abortion and the ACA (Obamacare) and election decisions f...
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Call to Action
By: Michael LaFond
"Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech Updated April 2, 20257:17 AM ET By Rachel Treisman, Alana Wise... Booker wiped away tears and placed his hand over his heart as fellow Democrats cheered at the end of his 25-hour, 4-minute speech. Others were seen crying and some rushed to hug the visibly exhausted and emotional Booker.... Booker's speech took aim at President Trump, White House senior adviser Elon Musk and policies that he said show a 'complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution and the needs of the American people.'..." ~NPR"Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history’ by Ashleigh Fields - 04/02/...
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Another Chance at Life
By: Michael LaFondBe the Hero! Contribute to your community in the most valuable way by making 9-1-1 work. 9-1-1 is a joke only because we don't force our government to do better.
Your emergency services manager will whine that they can't, but that is just lack of commitment. It only takes money, and a little knowledge.
In this book is the knowledge; now, make them find the money.
Tucson 911 Manual
By: Michael LaFond
Manual for training new Emergency 911 Operators in the Emergency Call Center from 2007. The Emergency 911 Operators would triage calls and transfer to agency call-takers in an efficient manner. Because most 911 calls arrive in bunches, and not randomly, duplicating calls overwhelm most 911 systems. The structure of the Tucson 911 model effectively prevented the duplicate calls from blocking other calls and losing information about emergency situations, providing greater safety for the public and the first-responders.The "triage PSAP" is the only call center structure that can effectively handle the spikes of 9-1-1 calls that quickly overwhelm other call center configurations. It is rare beca...
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