Debut Authors
First-time voices and the books that launched them
Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making
The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.
Darie Nani · 17 July 2026
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Traci Slatton spent nine years making HEROIC and found that hope is a discipline you build
A Debut Novelist Writes a Man's Trauma to Say What Men Rarely Get to
Citiscape: The Magical Realism Novel Asking Readers to See the People Cities Forget
Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics
Books We Love
The titles worth your shelf — the authors, the stories, and the books behind them.
Humor
Ninety Seconds: What Nursing Taught Me Between Breakdowns and Bad Shifts
Cherie L. Davis
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Why Law Firm Brands Fail: How Short-Term Thinking, Misguided Marketing, and Cheap Decisions Cost Firms Millions, and What Enduring Brands Do Differently
Patrick Babaian
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Body, Mind & Spirit
Hi Mom, It's Me
Nancy Yuskaitis
Business & Economics
Infested
Tim Whitt
Fiction
A Very Loud Christmas
Amy Schisler
Fiction
A Grey Resort
Wendy M. Kok
Fiction
A Court of Splintered Harmony (A Court of Thorns and Roses Book 6)
Sarah J. Maas
Where the Light Is Brighter
C. C. Griffin
Biography & Autobiography
What’s so Funny About Dementia?
Pam Mullarkey Robbins Ph.D.
Religion
With All Your Heart
Marion Dunkerley
Juvenile Nonfiction
Happy Raksha Bandhan
Aditi Srivastava Modi
PSAT/NMSQT Math Practice Questions
Vibrant Publishers
Religion
Living in the Daze of Deception
Jack Hibbs
Young Adult Fiction
The Obsidian Eye
Cathy Warshaw
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