Paint The Sky by Keith Hagger is a raw and restless poetry collection with a voice that refuses to sit quietly. It is angry, thoughtful, sometimes romantic, and often deeply frustrated with the state of the world. Hagger writes with the feeling of someone looking around and asking how everything became so broken.
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.
At Death’s Door by Allen Rebot is a horror fiction novel that will grab you from the very first page and not let go until long after you have finished it. If you are looking for a book that is equal parts terrifying and deeply human, this is a perfect read for you.
Orphans of the Sea by Charles R. Cooke and Christopher X. Ryan is not a gentle read. It is violent, intense, and often deeply uncomfortable, but it is also one of those stories that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go. This is a survival thriller with sharp worldbuilding, brutal action, and a heroine who is impossible not to root for, even when the story pushes her into darkness.
The Soundless Symphony: At the Heart of Night by Stacy Seraphina White is an atmospheric poetry collection built from silence, shadow, nature, desire, and the emotions people often cannot express directly. As the opening volume in the A Seeking Soul trilogy, it reads like the beginning of an inward journey: one that does not rush toward healing but remains willing to sit beside grief and study its shape.
“As Molly proves to herself and everyone around her, a young woman’s search for freedom cannot be yoked to the world’s expectations of who she is meant to be. Cherry Creek is a motivational story swaddled in the simple fondness of a historical drama, attempting to keep the harshness of the prairie landscape at bay.
What does it take to challenge over a hundred years of scientific consensus, from Einstein to Hawking to Hubble, a pair of open eyes and a strong commitment to what is visible?
“There is love found within, in all its complicated configurations; relentlessly stalked by its opposing partner-pain. Relationships are spliced open by the sharp blade of poetry, exposing them from within, guts and all. It is up to the characters to put themselves back together again, as best they can.”
From Puerto Rico to New York: Fragments from a Life of Service is the memoir of Manuel Cabranes, one of the leading Puerto Rican public servants of the 20th century.
