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Cover of Twenty Five by Moshea, a boy in a number 25 vest standing in front of a giant wolf on the lawn of a red-brick group home

Twenty Five, a Lycan Found-Family Fantasy for Mature Teens and Adults Drawn from Author Moshea's Years in Group Homes

Darie Nani··1 min read

Ten-year-old Jean-Eza's arrival at a group home changes the lives of 24 other boys, who discover their hidden Lycan nature and form a pack. Its author has spent decades studying child psychology, fostering, coaching and tutoring young people.

Ana Braunstein, author of the This Case and My Life series

Ana Braunstein Turns Her Award-Winning Short Film This Case and My Life Into a Four-Book Series

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The screenwriter and actress first told the story of attorney Chris Roberts on screen. The four novels follow him from a Manhattan law firm into marriage, fatherhood and a family home in Connecticut.

Maureen Hughes, true crime author

True Crime Author Maureen Hughes on Spotting a Rehearsed Answer and Staying Safe While Investigating the Mob

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The former police officer and bodyguard has written about organized crime for 26 years, from a newspaper heiress's ties to Johnny Roselli to a 1956 Cairo case ruled a suicide.

Tom LeNoble seated on a sofa in a dark, studded interior, hands clasped

Tom LeNoble, Who Joined Facebook at 50, on How to Reinvent Yourself

Darie Nani··1 min read

The former head of customer service at MCI, Walmart.com and Palm now advises founders and executives on changes of direction, and his memoir has won seven book awards, including a 2026 NYC Big Book Award.

Author Rick Tabor in his study, in front of bookshelves

Rick Tabor's Sci-Fi Political Thriller The Blink of Humanity Explores the Dire Cost of Political Corruption

Darie Nani··1 min read

The Blink of Humanity follows a bioengineer with epilepsy and her robot companion as they set out to bring a corrupt US president to justice after a nuclear attack on Chicago.

Chris Scharff, author of Memories: My Life Story

Hanns Scharff's Son Chris Scharff Traces His Family's Path From Wartime Germany to Africa and America in WWII Memoir

Darie Nani··1 min read

Born in Greiz in 1936, the Carlsbad author spent 20 years in South Africa and Rhodesia before joining his father in Los Angeles, and in retirement met one of the American pilots his father had interrogated.

Elizabeth M. Lykins, author and spiritual coach

Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness

Darie Nani··1 min read

An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.

Lisa F. Crites holding her memoir Beautifully Unbroken

Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.

Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind

Great and Unfortunate Things: The Memoir Jason Arday Leaves Behind

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

What Jason Arday's memoir Great and Unfortunate Things tells, and how critics have received it, following his death days after its US publication.

Close-up of reading glasses resting on a stack of newspapers, symbolizing knowledge and study.

Jason Arday, Cambridge's Youngest Black Professor, Dies Days at 41 After His Memoir is Published

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge on 5 August amid allegations of academic misconduct he denied. His memoir was published three days before he was found dead at his London home, prompting tribute from colleagues and renewed debate over how certain media reporting against him, not about him, were conducting toxic journalism.

Lisa F. Crites holding her memoir Beautifully Unbroken

Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.

In Conversation with Francis Fukuyama

In Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant

Dr Marina Nani··1 min read

In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.