Survival taught him the rules, now the game has changed—growing up an orphan in the South Bronx, Harry Bauer learned one rule: survive, and smart, tough, and fast on his feet, he keeps his head down until he gets too close to Angelica, the wife of a New Jersey mobster. Blake Banner launches Harry Bauer with espionage thriller where suddenly Harry needs to disappear and London seems far enough, except he’s wrong—just days after he arrives, Harry gets a desperate call from Marco, Angelica’s son, a brilliant physics student at the University of London claiming they have decided to kill him, refusing to say who they are or why, and before Harry can meet him, Marco vanishes. 🔍Searching for him drags Harry into a maze of secrets—who is the enigmatic Dr. Ariana Bakhshi and what was her real relationship with Marco? Why does she turn up at Harry’s flat in the middle of a storm? Who are the gifted students in the so-called Jewish Genius Club and why are they being hunted? What was Karla Krauss to Marco and what deadly truth did she uncover? Banner explores what happens when running from mob trouble lands you in something far more dangerous, examining how a street-smart survivor must navigate academic conspiracies and global power plays. ⚡

To find the answers, Harry must descend into a world where cutting-edge science collides with global power—where the Military Industrial Complex is running projects so extreme they make science fiction look obsolete. The author delivers espionage thriller where protecting a mobster’s son means exposing secrets that powerful people will kill to keep buried, proving that sometimes escaping one danger just delivers you to something exponentially worse. Banner writes a protagonist whose South Bronx survival skills translate unexpectedly well to international intrigue when brilliant students start disappearing. 🌍

What makes this compelling: Espionage thriller launching Harry Bauer where South Bronx orphan Harry Bauer who learned to survive gets too close to mobster’s wife Angelica and flees to London—days after arriving, he gets a desperate call from her brilliant physics student son Marco at University of London claiming they want to kill him, refusing to say who or why before vanishing, dragging Harry into a maze of secrets about enigmatic Dr. Ariana Bakhshi, the Jewish Genius Club’s hunted students, and Karla Krauss’s deadly truth as cutting-edge science collides with the Military Industrial Complex running projects making science fiction look obsolete.

Val Thorvald is an assassin who takes care of magical bad guys when they hurt people—permanently—which doesn’t make her popular with the rest of the magical community as you can tell from the numerous break-ins and assassination attempts she’s endured over the years. Lindsay Buroker launches Death Before Dragons with urban fantasy where thanks to her half-elven blood, a powerful sword named Chopper, and a telepathic tiger with an attitude, Val’s always been able to handle her problems with aplomb—maybe some cursing and swearing too, but definitely aplomb. 🗡️That changes when her boss is afflicted with a mysterious disease, a government agent starts investigating her, and a godforsaken dragon shows up in the middle of her latest job—Val’s taken down vampires, zombies, and ogres, but dragons are way, way more powerful, and it doesn’t look like this one is going to like her. Buroker explores what happens when an assassin’s competence meets something genuinely beyond her paygrade, examining how someone who’s always been the most dangerous thing in the room reacts when that’s no longer true. 🐉

Worse than that, he wants to use his magic to compel her to do his bidding, as if she’s some weak-minded minion—that’s not going to happen because Val would die before being some dragon’s slave. The author delivers urban fantasy where independence meets ancient power, proving that some threats are too big to handle with aplomb but you try anyway because the alternative is submission. Buroker writes a protagonist whose half-elven blood, magical sword, and telepathic tiger companion have always been enough until they suddenly aren’t, creating stakes where losing means becoming exactly what she’s always fought against: someone’s minion. 💪

Why I’m including this: Urban fantasy launching Death Before Dragons where assassin Val Thorvald takes care of magical bad guys permanently, making her unpopular despite handling numerous break-ins and assassination attempts with her half-elven blood, powerful sword Chopper, and telepathic tiger with attitude—that changes when her boss gets a mysterious disease, a government agent investigates, and a godforsaken dragon shows up in her latest job wanting to compel her as his weak-minded minion, but she’d die before being some dragon’s slave even though dragons are way more powerful than the vampires, zombies, and ogres she’s taken down.

A quiet southern college town, a series of unexplained student deaths, a professor’s mysterious behavior, and a man haunted by nighttime experiences he can’t begin to explain—when history lecturer Jack Turner begins reliving the past in vivid, nighttime encounters, his world starts to unravel. Dan Walsh launches Jack Turner Suspense Series with Christian suspense where it threatens to derail a budding romance with beautiful teaching assistant Rachel Cook, and as local detective Joe Boyd investigates a string of strange student deaths, the two men find themselves pulled into a chilling web of secrets, lies, and a dangerous conspiracy that blurs the line between memory and madness. 🌙Walsh explores what happens when academic life collides with inexplicable phenomena, examining how a history lecturer’s nighttime experiences that seem like vivid memories might be connected to present-day deaths on campus. The author balances psychological uncertainty—is Jack experiencing genuine supernatural events or losing his grip on reality?—with detective procedural as Boyd uncovers patterns suggesting something more sinister than random accidents. 🔍

When Night Comes is a gripping psychological suspense novel where nothing and no one is what it seems, delivering Christian suspense that asks whether Jack’s past-reliving experiences are warning, prophecy, or symptom of something darker. Walsh writes a protagonist whose expertise in history becomes uncomfortably relevant when the past refuses to stay in textbooks, creating tension where each nighttime encounter provides either clues to stopping the deaths or evidence that Jack himself is losing his mind. The first Jack Turner Suspense novel proves that sometimes the most dangerous mysteries are the ones happening inside your own head. 😱

What makes this special: Christian suspense launching Jack Turner Suspense Series where history lecturer Jack Turner in a quiet southern college town begins reliving the past in vivid nighttime encounters that threaten to derail budding romance with beautiful teaching assistant Rachel Cook—as local detective Joe Boyd investigates a string of strange student deaths alongside a professor’s mysterious behavior, the two men get pulled into a chilling web of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracy blurring the line between memory and madness in this gripping psychological suspense novel where nothing and no one is what it seems.

He saw too much, now they want him gone—Ex-CIA Deputy Director Chris Collins is ready to walk away from the intelligence game forever until on a bitterly cold night in Washington, DC, he spots what should be unthinkable: a future leader of the free world in a clandestine exchange with a known terrorist, an alliance that could destroy everything Collins fought to protect. John Hopton delivers CIA thriller where within hours, Collins is framed for a violent crime and forced to flee the country he has sworn to defend, now a fugitive without CIA backup who must stay one step ahead of his enemies while unraveling a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power. 🕵️Collins built his reputation on being smart, lethal, and devoted to the cause—exactly the kind of man this network wants dead, able to depend on only two people in the entire world, and one of them is the most alluring, mysterious woman he’s ever met. Hopton explores what happens when a career intelligence officer becomes the target, examining how someone who knows all the agency’s methods must evade those same techniques while exposing corruption at the top. ⚡

In the midst of a personal crisis, he embarks on a global journey to clear his name, defend his country, and bring some of the world’s most powerful people to justice. The author delivers CIA thriller where being smart and lethal only helps if you can figure out who to trust, proving that the most dangerous conspiracies are the ones involving people who will lead the free world. Hopton writes an ex-Deputy Director whose devotion to country becomes liability when the country’s future leadership is compromised, creating stakes where clearing his name means exposing treason at the highest levels. 🌍

Why I’m including this: CIA thriller where Ex-CIA Deputy Director Chris Collins ready to walk away from the intelligence game spots a future leader of the free world in clandestine exchange with a known terrorist on a bitterly cold Washington DC night—within hours he’s framed for violent crime and forced to flee the country he’s sworn to defend as a fugitive without CIA backup, staying one step ahead of enemies while unraveling a conspiracy reaching the highest power levels, depending on only two people in the entire world with one being the most alluring mysterious woman he’s ever met as he embarks on a global journey to clear his name, defend his country, and bring the world’s most powerful people to justice.

Four hundred years in the future, men are nearly extinct and women rule the world—all except one place: the land once known as Canada and Alaska is now the Northlands, a vast and forbidden territory ruled by the Men of the North who are isolated, powerful, and fiercely independent, rejecting female authority and living beyond the reach of modern society. Elin Peer delivers science fiction box set where Christina Sanders is an archaeologist and professor of history with a fascination for the past, and in the year 2437, the men she knows are gentle, compliant, shaped by centuries of female rule—the dangerous, dominant males of history exist only in books, or so she believes, until she volunteers to cross the border and lead an archaeological excavation. 🌲Meeting the mythical Men of the North challenges everything Christina has been taught about power, desire, and survival—will the men allow her to do her work, or has she entered a world where leaving was never an option? Peer explores what happens when a woman from a matriarchal society encounters men who’ve rejected that entire system, examining how four centuries of separate evolution created fundamentally different gender dynamics. 💪

The author delivers science fiction that asks what masculinity looks like when unconstrained by female authority and whether a woman raised in safety can survive—or even want to leave—a world where men are dominant again. Peer writes a heroine whose academic knowledge of historical gender relations becomes uncomfortably practical when she’s surrounded by men who embody everything her society has spent four centuries trying to eliminate. The five-book box set explores whether cooperation between the sexes is possible when both have evolved in complete isolation from each other. ⚡

What makes this compelling: Science fiction box set where four hundred years in the future men are nearly extinct and women rule the world except the Northlands—the vast forbidden territory once known as Canada and Alaska ruled by isolated, powerful, fiercely independent Men of the North who reject female authority and live beyond modern society’s reach—where archaeologist professor Christina Sanders in 2437 knows only gentle compliant men shaped by female rule, believing dangerous dominant males exist only in books until she volunteers to cross the border for an archaeological excavation, meeting the mythical Men of the North who challenge everything she’s been taught about power, desire, and survival, asking whether they’ll allow her work or if she’s entered a world where leaving was never an option.

The perfect pre-wedding getaway, the perfect murder, the perfect trap—Jake is everything to her: best friend, partner, and now fiancé, with the only problem being that her parents don’t agree with their whirlwind romance, believing Jake is only after the family money and don’t want her to marry him. Lauren North delivers domestic thriller where they only came to the family villa in the south of France to escape parental disapproval, but when their old friend Claude confronts them in the town square, hurling insults and warning what will happen if they go ahead with the wedding, she’s furious that meddling has ruined their last moment of pre-wedding bliss. 💍She tells Jake not to worry—no matter what her parents think, she loves him and always will—but when they return to the villa later that day, her world falls apart because there, on their beautiful rug, is Claude’s body. North explores what happens when romantic escape becomes murder scene, examining how a couple trying to prove their love is real becomes prime suspects in a killing. She stops breathing as she takes in the scene: the footprints in the same tread as Jake’s trainers, the knife she used at breakfast lying near the body covered in her fingerprints. 🔪

She feels dizzy, reaching out for Jake as a shiver races through her—he holds her, saying nothing, while everyone saw them arguing with Claude this morning. North asks whether someone is trying to make it look like they did this, delivering domestic thriller where defending your relationship means proving you didn’t kill someone who publicly opposed it. The author balances romantic tension with criminal suspicion, creating a scenario where all evidence points to the engaged couple and their pre-wedding getaway has become a nightmare where love might not be enough to save them. 😱

Why I’m including this: Domestic thriller where Jake is everything—best friend, partner, fiancé—but her parents don’t agree with their whirlwind romance, believing he’s after family money, so they escape to their south of France villa where old friend Claude confronts them in the town square hurling insults—when they return later, Claude’s body lies on their rug with footprints matching Jake’s trainers and her fingerprint-covered breakfast knife nearby, everyone having seen them argue with Claude that morning.

Discover the simple and scientifically proven dietary approach to achieving glowing skin that’s free of age spots, sagging and wrinkles—eating too much of the wrong foods is bad for your digestion, and what’s worse, it shows up in your face as wrinkles, blemishes, bags and more. Dr. Nigma Talib delivers beauty and health guidance where luckily, by identifying and eliminating your skin-aging triggers, you can simultaneously heal your gut, stop this process of “digest-aging” and reverse its negative effects on your skin through a complete healthy skin regimen that produces beautiful glowing skin by balancing hormones, preventing inflammation, and maintaining well-adjusted digestion. ✨The book’s comprehensive four-week program and healthy recipes provide solutions to eight different signs of aging—including uneven skin tone, puffiness, dark circles, and adult acne—and guarantees one blissful result: younger-looking, healthier skin. Talib explores the gut-skin connection that most people miss, examining how what you eat literally writes itself on your face through inflammation and hormonal disruption. The author proves that topical creams can only do so much when the real aging happens from the inside out. 🌟

Talib delivers practical beauty advice grounded in digestive health, targeting the four major culprits—gluten, wine, dairy, and sugar—that accelerate skin aging while providing a clear program to identify which ones are your personal triggers. The four-week approach makes transformation manageable while the focus on eliminating specific problematic foods rather than endless restriction makes it sustainable. The doctor’s approach transforms skincare from surface treatment to systemic healing. 💫

What makes this compelling: Beauty and health guide where Dr. Nigma Talib delivers a simple scientifically proven dietary approach to glowing skin free of age spots, sagging, and wrinkles—eating too much wrong foods shows in your face as wrinkles, blemishes, and bags, but identifying and eliminating skin-aging triggers like gluten, wine, dairy, and sugar simultaneously heals your gut, stops “digest-aging,” and reverses negative effects through a four-week program with recipes providing solutions to eight aging signs guaranteeing younger-looking, healthier skin.

A collection of greatest film reviews from a critic who “understands how to pop the hood of a movie and tell us how it runs”—Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic Roger Ebert wrote movie reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over forty years, with his wide knowledge, keen judgment, and sharp sense of humor making him America’s most celebrated film critic, the only one to have a star dedicated to him on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Steven Spielberg’s quote captures Ebert’s gift perfectly: he could explain not just whether a movie worked but why and how it achieved its effects. 🎬His hit TV show At the Movies made “two thumbs up” a coveted hallmark in the industry—from The Godfather to GoodFellas, from Cries and Whispers to Crash, the reviews in Awake in the Dark span some of the most exceptional periods in film history, from the dramatic rise of rebel Hollywood and the heyday of the auteur to the triumph of blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark to the indie revolution. The extraordinary interviews included capture Ebert engaging with influential directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, and Ingmar Bergman, as well as respected actors from Robert Mitchum and James Stewart to Warren Beatty and Meryl Streep. 🌟

Also gathered here are some of his most admired essays, among them a moving appreciation of John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to the virtues of black-and-white films—a treasure trove for film buffs, Awake in the Dark is a compulsively readable chronicle of film since the late 1960s. Ebert’s writing proves that great criticism is itself an art form, balancing erudition with accessibility and passion with precision. The collection demonstrates why Ebert remained relevant across decades of changing cinema, adapting his voice while maintaining his standards. 📽️

What makes this essential: Film criticism collection from Pulitzer Prize–winning Roger Ebert who wrote Chicago Sun-Times reviews for forty years—the only critic with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, his wide knowledge, keen judgment, and sharp humor made him America’s most celebrated film critic, with reviews spanning exceptional film periods from rebel Hollywood and auteur heyday to Star Wars blockbusters and indie revolution, plus interviews with Scorsese, Spielberg, Allen, Bergman, Mitchum, Stewart, Beatty, and Streep, and essays on Cassavetes and black-and-white films.

Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834—the twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin in the Michigan Territory, an unsettled wilderness located on the northwestern tip of Lake Superior. Jean Hackensmith launches The Wilderness Saga with American historical romance where Caleb is not looking for love since his heart will always belong to his beloved Annie—what he does need is a woman to watch after the children while he toils in the fields making a living for his family, and Sarah turns out to be that woman. 🌲She raises his children with a gentle and loving hand and also helps Caleb to overcome an unbearable loss—as Wisconsin vies for statehood, the young couple will face challenge after challenge as they struggle to tame a wilderness that really doesn’t want to be tamed at all. Hackensmith explores what happens when practical necessity slowly transforms into genuine connection, examining how a grieving widower and a displaced teacher build something real from the ashes of loss and disappointment. ❤️

The author delivers American historical romance set against Wisconsin’s frontier period, proving that sometimes the hardest wilderness to tame isn’t the land but the human heart that’s been broken by tragedy. Hackensmith balances the brutal realities of 1830s frontier life—cholera epidemics, backbreaking farm work, political upheaval—with the quiet intimacy of two people learning to trust again. The first Wilderness Saga novel establishes a world where survival requires both physical endurance and emotional courage. 🏔️

Why I’m including this: American historical romance launching The Wilderness Saga where twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley unable to find teaching positions in flooded New York City job market accepts nanny position with Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after his wife, parents, and infant son die in the 1834 Cholera epidemic—the twist is the job is in Superior, Wisconsin in unsettled Michigan Territory wilderness, where grieving Caleb not looking for love needs someone to watch children while he farms, and Sarah raises them with gentle loving hands while helping him overcome unbearable loss as Wisconsin vies for statehood and they struggle to tame a wilderness that doesn’t want taming.

Historian and author John Michael Priest brings to vivid reality the chaos, combat, heroism, and hurting that engulfed the Army of the Potomac’s I Corps west of Gettysburg on that bloody Wednesday—it is an excellent addition to Gettysburg historiography and definitely a resource upon which current and future historians and authors will use widely. The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, was unexpected, heavy, confusing, and in many ways decisive, with much of it consisting of short and often separate simultaneous engagements or “firefights,” a term soldiers often use to describe close, vicious, and bloody combat. ⚔️Several books have studied this important inaugural day of Gettysburg, but none have done so from the perspective of the rank and file of both armies—John Michael Priest’s “Strong Men of the Regiment Sobbed Like Children”: John Reynolds’ I Corps at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 rectifies this oversight in splendid style. Priest explores what the battle looked like from the soldiers’ viewpoint rather than the generals’, examining how ordinary men experienced the chaos, fear, and violence of combat that would determine the fate of the Union. 💔

When dawn broke on July 1, no one on either side could have conceived what was about to take place—anticipating a fight and with a keen appreciation for terrain, Brig. Gen. John Buford deployed his Union cavalry in a giant arc north and west of Gettysburg to slow down any Confederate advance until Maj. Gen. John Reynolds could bring up his infantry, and by the time the foot soldiers of the I Corps arrived, A. P. Hill’s heavy Confederate formations had pushed back the troopers from the west. Priest delivers Civil War history that captures both the tactical complexity and the human cost, proving that understanding Gettysburg’s first day requires hearing from the men who fought and bled there. 🎖️

What makes this compelling: Civil War history where John Michael Priest brings vivid reality to chaos, combat, heroism, and hurting engulfing the Army of the Potomac’s I Corps west of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863—the unexpected, heavy, confusing, decisive fighting consisted of short simultaneous “firefights” describing close vicious bloody combat, rectifying the oversight of previous Gettysburg books by telling the story from rank and file perspective of both armies as Brig. Gen. John Buford’s cavalry deployed to slow Confederate advance until Maj. Gen. John Reynolds’ infantry arrived against A. P. Hill’s heavy formations.