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What if your life wasn’t a race to the finish line—but a painting in progress? What if every day could feel more like wandering through a mountain path, resting by a flowing river, or breathing beneath an open sky? In Shan Shui: Designing Your Inner Landscape, author Rick T. Fu introduces listeners to the ancient Chinese art of shan shui (山水—literally “mountain-water”) and shows how it offers a timeless blueprint for modern life. For centuries, Shan Shui was more than painting.

In 2023, poet Skip Gershwin returns to Soleri College — the experimental school in the desert Southwest where he was once a student — simply expecting to teach. Instead, he steps into a politically engineered takeover. A powerful governor has installed a new board determined to purge Soleri of “wokeness,” placing courses, faculty, and students under ideological siege. As the campus fractures, resistance forms in uneven, conflicted ways: principled, chaotic, and sometimes self-defeating.

When a decades-old severed leg is discovered buried on Bonita Key, local Gazette reporter Rose Banatelli is drawn into an investigation the island would rather keep forgotten. Teaming up with retired detective Frank Caprio, Rose begins following a trail that leads far beyond a single long-buried victim. Their search uncovers a hidden network of illegal land filings, stolen properties, and quiet financial manipulation operating beneath the surface of the seemingly peaceful island community. At the center of it all stands Mayor Grant Ellis — respected, powerful, and seemingly untouchable.

People think leaving an island like Bonita Key makes you brave. They’re wrong. When former journalist Rose Banatelli returns to the small Florida island she once fled, she expects a quiet reset—sun, routine, and the comfort of familiar faces. What she doesn’t expect is a death no one wants to talk about… or a truth buried so deep the entire town seems determined to keep it hidden. As Rose starts asking questions, whispers turn to warnings.

Twenty-year-old Seren Blackwood isn't prepared for the ancient magic that erupts from her when she touches an ancient artifact. Everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Torn from her home and thrust into the deadly politics of the Fae courts, Seren must navigate betrayal, forbidden attraction, and family secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined. With enemies closing in and her newfound power growing stronger, Seren faces an impossible choice: embrace a destiny she never wanted, or lose everything she's ever loved.

Before the Night Forgets is a lyrical coming-of-age fable that follows a young boy’s journey to becoming a wandering poet under his father’s gentle mentorship. Through a series of annual fireside storytelling sessions that begin on the boy’s eighth birthday, the novel unfolds as part spiritual parable, part philosophical dialogue, and part heartfelt family saga.

Salem’s dead don’t rest. When historian Clara Ashwood discovers a journal bound to her family’s past, she awakens something that should have stayed buried. Shadows whisper her name, graves stir in the night, and a revenant stitched from the betrayed rises to collect its due. Clara must choose: bind the horror and risk her soul, or release it and condemn the town. But the veil between past and present is thinning, and Salem always demands payment. Fans of gothic suspense, supernatural thrillers, and witchcraft mysteries will be spellbound by this haunting beginning to The Witches of Salem.

From the icy Arctic tundra to the warm glow of the rainforest, Homes of the Wild takes young listeners on a captivating adventure across our planet’s diverse habitats. Each beautifully illustrated part reveals how animals adapt, survive, and thrive in the places they call home—from deserts and mountains to coral reefs and wetlands. Through lyrical storytelling and stunning artwork, children will discover how Earth’s ecosystems are all connected, forming one magnificent web of life. It’s more than just a science book—it’s a celebration of the wonder, balance, and beauty of the natural world.

In Twelve Pitstops You Should Make While Driving to the Afterlife, Mili Mulic—a Bosnian war refugee turned artist and author—blends myth, memory, and metaphor into a deeply human road trip through the soul.