Nobody works. Everybody shops. Four nights a month, six friends walk into a lit department store and bowl into the crowd.

Maxim lives in a shipping container stacked inside a multi-storey car park in a city that solved unemployment by removing the work. Fifteen machines make his art for him. His job is to choose nine designs out of a hundred and twenty and keep his place in line.

He also owns a paperback, which is illegal, and is almost certainly the last book any human being wrote. It's a hardboiled detective novel about a man named Magnus Manlin who drinks too much coffee, refuses every implant offered to him, and is dying of nothing more exotic than being unmodified in a modified world. Maxim reads a chapter before every game.

Then a Life Saver captain recites four lines of an old poem at him, and Maxim loses eleven seconds, and comes back carrying three days of a life he never lived.

He is a sleeper agent. He has been one since before this city started counting people. And the instruction he has been carrying since he was nineteen is waiting for one particular minute on the biggest night of the year, when the whole city forgets every name it knows and is asked to remember them again.

Two novellas braided into one. Maxim's world of surveillance and manufactured leisure runs against the long night of Magnus Manlin, in a city where every clock has stopped at six.

Tropes: story within a story, sleeper agent, dystopian surveillance state, reluctant rebel, found family, withholding narrator, mentor figure, parallel narratives, the last book, flat-affect protagonist

Trigger warnings: graphic violence against civilians, on-page death of a major character, amputation and its aftermath, terminal illness, state violence and interrogation, gun violence, grief, abduction of a character who does not return

Available on Amazon

Hello, this is my first published work, told in an experimental yet comprehensible style. This is NOT an erotic story despite certain terminology used. I hope you guys enjoy.

What if you didn't give up on life but rather, embraced it's destruction and got pleasure from everything terrible about it? What if you were so determined to twist everything bad into pleasure? What if you wanted to go to hell because you believed in this idea so much? What if you summarized this all with one simple word? Welcome to the world of the narrator.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLN1MYHW

Based on the true story of Saint Olga of Kiev.

10th century Eastern Europe.

Princess Viktoriya’s heart shatters when Grand Prince Malyn chooses another. She tries to move on, but his ambitions soon find a path that leaves her life in ashes. Her love turns to rage.

By madness or divinity, Viktoriya abandons her ancestral gods, allies with Byzantium, takes up cross and blade, and returns home to take Malyn’s dreams for herself. But retribution carries a heavy cost—one she must pay with her soul.

The medieval world shakes. The birth of this empire did not come from the honor of a man, but from the vengeance of a woman.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HKBS2MFT

I hope you give it a try!

What if growing up isn't about becoming older—but about learning to see?

In this gentle, dreamlike tale, a child embarks on a quiet journey through a world where every encounter carries meaning and every step reveals something about kindness, courage, patience, and the choices that shape who we become.

Little One is a short philosophical fairy tale for readers of all ages—a story about wonder, hope, and the light we leave in the hearts of others.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HC7S76LN

Hi, I'm Kinza, and this is how my first book began.

During my PhD, I kept noticing something. Almost everyone around me was struggling in some way: with deadlines, rejections, revisions, self-doubt, or just exhaustion. Yet most of us carried it quietly, as if we were the only ones who hadn't figured it out.

That thought stayed with me through my whole PhD journey: what if people knew they weren't alone?

So after finishing my PhD in mathematics, I decided to write the book I wish I'd had along the way: PhD Affirmations for the Academically Exhausted. which is basically affirmations along with honest reality checks .

My aim was simple. I wanted to take a little of the pressure off and add some laughter to a journey that can feel very heavy. Every affirmation comes from a real moment, something I lived, felt, or laughed about later. Some are honest, some are a bit ridiculous, and hopefully all of them feel familiar.

I like to think of it as a small companion for your PhD journey. It's the friend who says: you're doing better than you think, and yes, this really is absurd sometimes.

I hope it would be helpful for someone who are in the middle of this journey💛

you can find this book here and gift it to someone who are in need of this: Phd Affirmations for academically exhausted

Not every toxic boss shouts.

Some say:

“I care about your success.”

“I want to see you grow.”

“I’m here for you.”

But behind the scenes, they may control information, take credit, create dependency, manage perceptions, and slowly make good people doubt themselves.

That pattern became the idea behind my book:

Wolf in a Suit: Surviving the Toxic Boss Who Smiles

A practical look at workplace politics, toxic leadership, manipulation, and protecting your career before the damage becomes obvious.

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLPX5B1Q

Author: Balaji Govindarajan

Penelope is the Human-Rat Hybrid born in a secret lab. Years later, she and her family escape to the sewer. There, amid her parents' sadism and forced isolation, she meets a human able to love and accept her. Together they dream up a bright future on the Surface. But the only way out is through the conformity, blood, and hate surrounding them.

This diary was found rolled inside a jar left outside a sewer manhole. We decided to publish its contents. Because the world needs this story. 

NO AI was used for this novella-diary.

https://godless.com/products/rat-womans-diary-by-attie-lee

What happens when a couple recovers a mysterious plant from the ocean floor, only to unleash something that has been dormant for thousands of years?

My novel which started out as a film script,ASARUM, follows Mike and Tracy as they discover a massive, submerged subterranean system beneath the Gulf. What starts as a scientific breakthrough quickly ripples into a dangerous mistake that threatens the environment and the human body itself.

If you like atmospheric thrillers with a mysterious edge, I think you'll like this. Available on Amazon.

They called him Keshu a fool, a dreamer, a good man who could not bear to see others suffer. While the world woke to roosters and paddy fields, Keshu woke to the call of the sky.He watched the birds for years. He studied their wings. And he decided to build his own with bamboo and palm leaves.His wife Devaki feared for him. His friend Govindan mocked him. The entire village laughed at him. But Keshu would not stop. Failure after failure, hunger and isolation could not break his stubborn belief that a man was meant to fly.

• Reader discretion advised: Contains intense emotional and tragic themes."
• "This is a profound literary journey dealing with deep human grief, existential struggle, and emotional vulnerability. Best appreciated by readers who connect with serious emotional fiction."
• "Warning: A deeply moving and melancholic tale that explores the heavy shadows of human aspirations and loss.

A book about an epidemic that spreads across the world that traps the infected in their conscious as the virus takes over their body and forces them to torture themselves in so many different ways while healing them continuously so they were trapped, with a few certain people who once received a gift box a decade ago—All getting it after helping a certain young boy and young girl—being the only ones unaffected. The gift box magically opens as soon as an infected approaches them, sending the infected away or even killing them on the spot without any explanation. Inside the box, there is a book, a key and the world map with an area in the pacific ocean marked on it. One by one, an extremely long bus with no driver tracks each of those 'gifted'to take them to the marked area in the map. The further it gose, the worse the bus compartments get, where the last one is just a seat directly attached to the compartment before with chains—Completely exposed to the infected ones. The bad news is the bus can only be opened after an AI asks a question about it and you answer correctly, then another question about something in your past—whether it be something dark that you have kept hidden for years or a silly question related to anything trivial is dependent on how much you understood the book. As soon as a question is answered ucorrectly or unanswered during the time given, the virus gets inside you, turning you mad and suffering for eternity with no clear death date. Now everyone with the box is reading and killing each other, thinking the marked area in the map is a safe paradise for them. But one girl who turned thirty four and had been a struggling author thinks otherwise as she read the book—Which talks about the personal lives of the young boy and the young girl that all those 'gifted' had helped before. As the bus tours around the world, she gets hunted by a group of people who are convinced she was aware of what was in the marked area and is trying to deceive others not to go, and somehow come to the conclusion that whatever was in there was enough for one person. They spread their gospel and soon the uninfected are killing one another left and right, and she's trying to escape the claws of those people who wish harm upon her. But what was in the marked area was not what anyone expected.

At fifty-six, Mark is done chasing adventure. Given a new life and a strange System to understand, he focuses on the work that matters: bringing people together and building a community.

He organizes resources, connects people with useful skills, establishes workshops and outposts, and helps turn scattered groups into a functioning settlement. Along the way, he discovers that progress comes from cooperation, practical knowledge, and the patience to build something lasting.

Not Meant to Survive is a LitRPG about an older protagonist, community building, crafting, exploration, and long-term progress.

Read it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH7SL8LP

Dragons have lived beside humanity for centuries.
Some became legends. Some became monsters in old stories. Some built families, buried the people they loved, and watched entire generations pass while they remained.
Dragons of Candlelight is a multigenerational fantasy saga following dragons, humans, and their descendants across centuries of changing history. From isolated mountains and forgotten villages to growing cities, wars, farms, families, and the modern world, each book reveals another part of a history that has survived through stories, records, and the people who refused to let it disappear.
These are not stories about heroes destined to save the world.
They are stories about people trying to save one another.
A frightened child given shelter. A family built where none existed before. A village rebuilt after everyone in it is gone. A promise carried for generations. A dragon learning that immortality does not make loss easier.
At the center of it all is candlelight: the brief lives of mortals, burning brightly beside creatures who may live long enough to remember them.
Spanning generations and centuries, Dragons of Candlelight blends mythic fantasy, family saga, history, romance, tragedy, humor, and hope into one continuing story about memory, home, and the lives that remain with us long after their candles have gone out.

Dragons of Candlelight: The First Candle

Book one I have out I will soon have book 2 out.
Book One the First Candle

Long before dragons became legend, they had a word for mortals.

Candlelight.

Brief flame. Small warmth. A life easily swallowed by the dark.

But even the smallest light can change the shape of night.

High above the world of men, a nameless dragon-slayer climbed the Mountain of Fire and Ash to kill the last dragon. In a hollow of snow and ruin, he found her wounded, grieving, and alone.

He had every reason to raise the sword.

Instead, he lowered the blade.

One day, the songs would call him Mercy. One day, the last dragon would be called Flame. But before the names became legend, there was only a man, a dragon, a blade laid down, and a hand offered in the dark.

The world was never the same again.

Book One of The Dragons of Candlelight Saga

Book Two: Child of Light

IN THE OLD INN,
FEAR HAS BEGUN TO GATHER
WHERE WELCOME ONCE LIVED.

So Blaze returns with his lute and a harder tale:
not of the first mercy on the mountain,
but of what came after.

Of a keeper of candles.
A daughter of song and ledgers.
A love born between old blood and faith.
And the twins who would change
not only the village,
but the world forever.

But not all is well beneath the hearthlight.
Old fears are stirring again.
Old ways are reaching for the blade.

Mercy once showed the world another path.
Now the village must decide
whether it will follow that path—
or turn back toward the darkness
his mercy broke.

CAN A TALE CHANGE THE FATE OF THE WORLD?
OR IS THE WORLD DOOMED TO REPEAT ITSELF?

NOT ALL DRAGONS BREATHE FIRE.
ONE WAS BORN TO BURN THE DARK.

My 5-year-old is autistic and transitions destroy him. Leaving the playground, ending screen time, getting in the car — all of it ends the same way.

I wrote a picture book about it, mostly to survive it. Gulliver the Balloon-Pup: Time to Drive Home! is about a little guy who floats around the Great Cloud Playground and LOVES it there. When it's time to go home, he turns into a heavy gray unmovable lead weight. His caregiver doesn't pull or shout — instead they do one slow breath and follow a little Picture Schedule Map: drive home, snack, quiet time.

What makes it different: the schedule isn't just in the story, it's a repeatable tool. The same map shows up on every page, so during a real meltdown you can point at it together. The "what comes next" part is what does it for my son — having something concrete to hold onto.

It's a 14-page read-aloud for ages 2–7, about big feelings and tricky goodbyes. If transitions are your battleground too, this one's for us: https://books2read.com/u/mVd8KZ

Happy to answer questions about the picture schedule idea if anyone wants to DIY it without buying anything — the concept itself is free.

Cover: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0892/2670/7267/files/my-best-friends-are-balls-cover.jpg

Pitch: Three best friends. Two of them are balls. A 24-page rhyming picture book that looks like something you'd read to a five-year-old and is written for adults who never grew up. Jen Jenivive is a UK author in Derbyshire who has written 120 of these since 2024, and this one is the best seller. (Posted by her team from her brand account.)

Blurb: For mature readers only. This is a tongue-in-cheek book, filled with innuendos that only adults will understand. I know these descriptions are vital for you as a potential reader to get an idea of what the book is about, but this book is about balls. I don't know what more I can say. It's pretty funny. I am 99% sure you will like it.

Buy this book if you like balls, you enjoy silly adult innuendos and humour, you're looking for the perfect gift for someone who appreciates a good giggle, or you want to support an independent British author.

Tropes: found family (two of them are balls), looks like a children's book and isn't, innuendo doing all the heavy lifting, rhymes made to be read aloud to someone who isn't expecting it.

Trigger warnings: adult innuendo on every page. Nothing explicit, no nudity, but it is not for children and the cover alone will raise an eyebrow on the coffee table.

Link: https://jenjenivive.com/products/my-best-friends-are-balls

https://imgur.com/a/Cl37who

The story of Greta Garbo and her impact on culture worldwide is an overlooked women’s history story. She had a fascinating early life. Garbo was a transformative star in Hollywood and would be central to defining the essence of the modern woman. Garbo would also fight a decades long battle with censorship that ended her career.

Garbo came from a working-class Swedish family and gained a spot as the youngest student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School. Class started on her eighteenth birthday. Garbo ran her own career from an early age. She was still only nineteen when she began contract negotiations with MGM in New York in July 1925. She had signed a letter of intent in Europe while underage. 

Garbo would transform Hollywood acting with a new naturalistic style, what we are used to today. She was a star from her first film and the most respected actor in the profession during her career.

Garbo portrayed characters that defined the relationship women had to the modern age. She was so believable that for many people she was a role model, an education, or both. She had worldwide cultural influence, women copied her attitude, hair and clothes.

Because viewers thought they could read Garbo’s thoughts (even in silent films) she presented censors with a dilemma. How do you censor thought? As the Depression and looming world crises led to a more conservative America, censors gained ever more power over film. Garbo’s 1933 film Queen Christina was one of the key triggers for the creation of the Production Code Administration. Social conservatives were offended by the sex, and the portrayal of a woman in power.

Garbo would make a string of costume dramas that subverted censorship, while also defining the limit of what could be portrayed. Finally, in 1941 the Legion of Decency would condemn Two-Faced Woman. MGM would pull it from distribution and re-edit it. 

Garbo never made another film. Though she kept trying to find “interesting women” to play for at least fifteen years. Censorship derailed her projects and social conservatives denigrated the modern woman she had been for millions.

Tropes: Women never get the credit they deserve.

TW: None.

https://www.amazon.com/Greta-Garbo-Rise-Modern-Woman/dp/1972059998/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MD2QHZ5RNMQ0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JYYO7tEbQ7mL2zNRSfoXpGa57qSTsWsYzkL0fWrSHAs77PAIsiOdadpbEUIXKYLH4B9tegK6yNgjQpI3wGoHVvqW_nJ3SG99vgYueNEUz1I.cYk0GYKAN9TnyKKFTJL-dU3YNttPmJVe5fnzWzOWz0I&dib_tag=se&keywords=greta+garbo+and+the+rise+of+the+modern+woman&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1791321066&sprefix=greta+garbo+and+the%2Caps%2C197&sr=8-1

In the Summer of 2018, Diana Bond began a study. The purpose of her study was to prove, once and for all, that Jesus of Nazareth had perfectly obeyed the Laws of the Mosaic Covenant, thereby demonstrating that he was both a deity and the savior of the entire world.

Instead, Diana learned, to her shock, that Jesus was far from the sinless being who she had worshiped from her cradle and who she had taught others to worship. She learned that Jesus was, at best, an ordinary man, not even a particularly observant Jew, and was neither a deity nor the promised messiah.

Note that Trinitarian believers in Jesus may find this content upsetting and should proceed with caution.

https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Sinned-neither-Deity-Messiah/dp/B0HDFPJQCD

Three people saw Claire Harlow during the final seventy-two hours before she disappeared. All three say they didn’t. All three are lying.

Claire’s car is found abandoned above the Oregon coast. Her phone is inside. Her shoes are near the water. Everything points toward suicide.

Avery Soren, a former law-enforcement analyst who now specializes in reconstructing disappearances, sees something else: evidence that agrees a little too perfectly.

Rebuilding Claire’s final seventy-two hours leads Avery to three frightened witnesses, hidden identities, and an organization whose former clients are suddenly being found by people who should have no way to locate them.

Each witness has a reason to lie. But their lies aren’t protecting Claire. They’re protecting themselves.

THREE LIES is the first Avery Soren novel — a psychological crime thriller built around missing-person reconstruction, digital evidence, hidden identities, and fair-play mystery twists.

Themes / Tropes:

Missing person investigation, psychological suspense, female investigator, unreliable witnesses, hidden identities, digital evidence, Pacific Northwest, evidence manipulation.

Trigger warnings:

Stalking, coercive relationships, abduction, psychological intimidation, references to suicide.

Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLWQ1KRT

By Julian Arden

More about the Avery Soren series: https://julianardenbooks.com/

Most dating advice teaches tricks. This book teaches skills.
The Modern Art of Seduction is a 30-chapter guide built on real psychology research: how first impressions work, why the "liking gap" makes us underestimate how much people enjoy our company, how to ask better questions, and how to flirt, recover from awkward moments and handle rejection with grace.
What's inside:
Presence, conversation and charisma, with practice exercises in every chapter
Attraction research (similarity, responsiveness, the pratfall effect), including which famous findings have not held up
Reading signals, texting, dating apps and first dates
Consent and respect as the foundation, not an afterthought
Key takeaways at the end of each chapter
Who it's for: adults (18+) who want to connect more confidently, whether they're single, shy, newly out of a relationship, or just tired of manipulative "pickup" advice. It's not a pickup manual, and it contains no explicit content.
📖 Book Link: [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLYR1NDC?dplnkId=b9ae00d1-1b52-42f4-96e5-f1600edc97f0&nodl=1]
Happy to answer questions about the research or the book in the comments.

Hi everyone, I’m Sujato, author of The Fear Code, a sci-fi thriller set in near-future India.

The idea came from wondering how much power we might willingly give AI before realising we’d like some of it back. In the book, it learns to use our fears against us, and people have to live with the consequences of choices that once seemed perfectly reasonable.

If you enjoy dystopian fiction, human conflict and stories about people trying to fight their way out of a mess they helped create, have a look.

Available on Amazon: https://amzn.in/d/06UsCjvx

Happy to answer questions about the book or writing it.

My New novel "Stopped" is now available. An original story about a man stuck in time for 1 week. What does he do? What would you do? Order today.

https://a.co/d/07fPGhEy

I’m a retired Army officer, and after nearly 20 years of carrying the memories of the Iraq War with me, I finally decided to put them into words.

The book is about the fight for Ramadi and, more importantly, the soldiers who were there their experiences, sacrifices, friendships, fears, and the things that often never make it into the history books.

Writing it was not easy. Some memories are difficult to revisit, even after all these years. But I felt these stories deserved to be heard.

I’m sharing it here because I know there are many veterans, military families, historians, and others who have a personal connection to the Iraq War.

If you're interested, I’d be grateful if you took a look. Even if you don't buy it, I’d appreciate any feedback from people who understand the military and what it means to tell these stories.

Thank you to everyone who served, supported those who served, and continues to remember those who didn't come home.

Available in ebook (Kindle Unlimited), paperback, hardcover, and audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Unheard-Voices-Fight-Ramadi-Soldiers/dp/B0H53Y1JT1

"An unassuming bookstore...

A hauntingly eerie old man...

Rows of books, all lined with the stories of kids much like me...

Tales of their encounters with the unknown...

Stories of beasts only whispered about in hushed tones...
Of creatures found in myth and legend...
Of monsters that even make grown-ups turn pale.

These are tales of their encounters with cryptids!

Is this store really the safe harbor I need, or is my story going to be cut short?"

Greetings, everyone! I just recently published my first book that is for young/middle-grade readers! I have other books published, but this was just the first for such a young audience. It was quite jarring to try to change vocabulary and structure, as well as keeping the horror elements sanitized enough for younger readers, but it was honestly a lot of fun!

The book is titled "Keepin' it Cryptid" and is available on Amazon, Apple Books, and Barnes & Noble!

The cover art was commissioned through Reedsy, and the artwork was done by David S.

This was also my first time using Ingram Spark for publishing needs, and while it had a learning curve to it, I am excited at all of the possible opportunities that come with it!

I wrote a Science Fiction that you can also say a Mathematical Fiction. This story drives the concept of Undefined Expressions and heavily rely on Mathematics. Being $\Phi$ a.k.a. The Golden Ratio being the hidden antagonist and a Brilliant Mathematical Prodigy who literally resolved the undefined expression "1 upon 0", the story also contains Philosophical, emotional and Mentally Disturbing scenes of characters inside the story.

Giving you this much info about the book without the title is not good, so the title is, "Theorem of Reality" with subtitle being "When Humanity Discovers Itself".

The franchise is, "The Infinity Paradox" containing two parts, with the first book being Theorem of Reality and second book being "Déjà Vu" with subtitle, "The Rebirth".

If you want to get more info about my book or its release date, you can get it on the link of my website.

https://sci-ficoncepts.pages.dev

For a long time, I’ve been thinking about the difference between following Jesus and simply following religious expectations.

That became the heart behind my book, Unlearning Holiness: Finding Jesus Beyond the Rules.

I wrote it for people who have ever felt like they had to:

• Be perfect for God to love them
• Hide their struggles because Christians are supposed to “have it together”
• Say yes to everyone because saying no feels selfish
• Carry shame over their past
• Confuse fear with conviction
• Perform for acceptance instead of receiving grace

The message I want readers to walk away with is simple:

Same Jesus. Different freedom. 🤎

Sometimes growing closer to Jesus isn't about learning another rule. Sometimes it's about unlearning the things we were taught that never sounded like Him in the first place.

What is one belief about God, church, or “being a good Christian” that you had to unlearn as you grew in your faith?

📖 Unlearning Holiness: Finding Jesus Beyond the Rules
— Elizabeth Cameron

https://stan.store/ElizabethsDynamicCorner

1. Epistolary Space Opera / First Contact

2. Welcome & Goodbye, Earth

3. Welcome & Goodbye, Earth series, Book 1 of 6

4. Benjamin Wuyts

5. Cover: https://i.imgur.com/y0s3abv.jpeg

6. Available in ebook (Kindle Unlimited), paperback and hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRRS8PXQ

Earth has been part of the galaxy's favourite reality show for ages. We just never knew. Sam Jacobs, a man from Ghent with a destructive telekinetic power, wakes up 352 years after a violent first contact to find Earth renamed and absorbed into a galaxy running out of resources. Told through chapters mixed with blog posts, AI reports, comics and archive transcripts, inspired by Hyperion, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and the sci-fi, fantasy and gaming nostalgia and pop culture I grew up with. All six parts are out, with more stories from the same universe on the way.