This book details one country’s brilliantly executed plan for global domination, meant to successfully usurp another’s hegemonic status before their very eyes as they willfully hand over the keys to their success to the agents of their demise, none the wiser to their fatal mistake.
The Quest for Freedom by Matthew Devitt is the opening instalment of The Conquest Trilogy, an action-heavy epic fantasy built around an immediately compelling reversal: humanity, once the most powerful species on Affer, has spent nearly five centuries enslaved by the very races that defeated it.
The Colonel’s Revenge by Jeffrey K. Schmoll is a fast, muscular thriller filled with war scars, old betrayals, buried treasure, family loyalty, and one very satisfying revenge plot. This is the kind of book that does not sit still for long. It moves from the battlefields of Angola to an illegal South African mine, then into a modern casino-heist storyline with a team of brilliant misfits trying to pull off the impossible.
Common themes are parsed out in their various forms across fifteen stories, with each one displaying its offering in a unique way. Characters modelled after ordinary people contend with the banality of their lives; occasionally, pockets of chaos or unpredictability attach themselves to the monotony, demanding the unwavering attention of the protagonists they have chosen to inconvenience.
Cherry Creek by Linda Griffin is a gentle, reflective historical romance that feels more personal than dramatic. It is not the kind of book that rushes toward big twists or sweeping action. Instead, it follows one young woman’s emotional journey as she tries to understand what freedom means, what love costs, and whether running away is the same as becoming independent.
Vendetta: Legend of the Iron Warrior Vol. 3 by T.V. Holiday is a dark superhero story that pushes its hero into one of his most personal battles yet. This volume does not only test Travis Holiday’s strength as the Iron Warrior, but also his faith, reputation, relationships, and sense of identity.
Sitting behind your desk at an office, where every day feels much the same as the one before, slaving away at meaningless tasks, always so repetitive; have you ever once let your mind plummet into the darkness? Of what could happen if you rewrote the rules for yourself? Took advantage of a system that is built upon doing the exact same to you, without consequence? This is a story of a calculated descent into the world of corporate crime. A fraudulent lifestyle is easier to adopt than it is to escape. Not everyone will make it out alive.
There are books that try to tame difficult emotions by softening them, and then there are books like What If Anger Is the Answer?, which walks straight toward the fire and asks what it might be good for. Michael LeBlanc’s memoir-meets-leadership guide is not a simple defense of rage, nor is it an easy self-help manual about calming down. It is a sharp, personal, and often funny examination of anger as a force that can destroy a person when left wild, but also shape courage, discipline, loyalty, and moral seriousness when guided well.
The notes of music released into the world born from instinct alone constructs the common theme that resonates in each of the ten short stories contained within this book.
Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers by Erin E. O’Connor is not a casual book about glassblowing. It is part ethnography, part memoir, part theory, and part love letter to the strange, exhausting, seductive world of the hotshop.
