Fiction - Own Voices

Clementine Becker has spent her life becoming invisible. Abandoned by her mother, hollowed out by grief, and carrying a secret, she has no room left for anyone new-until Saxon Stone walks into an art gallery opening in 2012 Seattle.Saxon is a war correspondent sidelined...

Machete in Love is a story "no one wants to read." BJ, an aging Alaskan fisherman, tries to warn a string of strangers about a dangerous man. The woman who actually lived through it tells her own account. Some people you fall for. Some...

Author: Jennifer YehISBN-10: 0063472236ISBN-13: 9780063472235Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2027Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

These pages hold the thoughts we swallow and the feelings we hide. This book explores grief, love, resilience, and the slow process of becoming whole again. It is for anyone who has been broken, rebuilt, and is still learning how to stay. The poetry...

Shattered, Still MomShe spent her childhood learning how to survive.Now she has two daughters depending on her to know how to love.For most of her life, Ella Carter has known there are pieces of herself she cannot explain. Missing memories. Unfamiliar handwriting. Moments she...

You are not reading this book out of curiosity. Or, at least, that's what he believes. It all begins with a titleless book found by chance on a shelf. But what seemed to be just another read turns into a deeply personal experience, as...

SEED is not a collection assembled from a distance. It is twenty years of writing that began as survival.Poet and U.S. Navy veteran Tshombe Sekou has spent a lifetime crossing borders - from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to Israel, from sixteen...

The book "Your Sensations, Feelings and Longings - Everything We Carry Inside" is a work of poetic prose that moves, across ten chapters, through the most intimate territories of human experience: the soul, love, pain, time, and the world. In short, dense reflections, written...

Tunde and Susan cross a line that costs them nothing they expected and everything they didn't know to prepare for. Emeka leaves his wife and children behind for what he's promised will be six months, and gets fourteen. Kemi's career takes her family to...

When an ambitious man arrives in the Mississippi Delta to broker a lucrative land deal, he expects to trade sweat for signatures and be gone before the seasons change. But the land-dense with memory, music, and murmuring cypress-has other plans. As he's drawn into...

When Zara Thompson throws herself a divorce party to celebrate her freedom from her unfaithful husband, she expects it to be the beginning of her new life. What she doesn't expect is for Marcus, her soon-to-be ex-husband, to crash the party with revelations that...

You know, when you think of a classroom, some teach subjects.Others quietly teach you how to think.When you walk into this Computer science classroom, you'll probably expect to learn about algorithms, trace tables and code. You probably wouldn't expect to collect inside jokes, Cake...

What if the greatest creature ever known was never lost? What if humanity simply forgot how to recognize it? When a young traveler begins dreaming of a magnificent being whose heart shines like a living seed and whose footsteps bring life wherever they fall,...

Clara Wendel has built her career on control.As a German documentary photographer preparing for a major Munich exhibition, she arrives on the southern coast of Java with printed maps, backup schedules, emergency phrases, and a guidebook full of highlighted rules. She expects hidden beaches,...

Some wounds do not ask to be healed. They ask only to be understood. The Sacred Wound is a literary devotional narrative-25 episodes written across the seasons of a single love that was never returned, never betrayed, and never made small. This is not...

Some books are written to be read. This one asks only to be accompanied.UP65: Varanasi - The Pilgrimage of Lost Love is a work of literary prose poetry spanning eleven episodes, set against the eternal fire of Varanasi's ghats and the equally eternal fire...

They told the women to be careful.Watch your drink.Walk home together.Don't trust strangers.Report it.Then they told them there wasn't enough evidence.When twenty-one-year-old twins Shelby and Grace Thorne discover they are just two voices among thousands dismissed, doubted and forgotten, they refuse to accept that...

The theme of this anthology, 'the power of nature' has rich potential, and the collection has been structured so that it begins with pieces broadly connected with the heavens, or the sky, and ends with pieces that focus on human nature itself. In this...

To save the future, he must betray his own blood.In Battle Land, loyalty to the Dictator is the only way to survive. For him, that loyalty was a family tradition. But when a sudden, violent betrayal tears him away from his father's luxury cabinet...

Excerpt from a portion of Chapter One that got edited out: Jonas has changed from the man I married and I don't know what I'm going to do about it. I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what to do. What makes a...

Some gifts aren't meant to be hidden.Vanessa Cole has spent thirteen years building a careful life above a wall her memory cannot cross. She teaches. She keeps her head down. She has learned to live with the blank space where her past should be.Then...

With great respect and dedication, we delve into the world of the invisible, a world unknown but very much alive and latent among us. Here, in these lines, we will see how far a human being can go with blindness, ego, intolerance, and envy,...

A moving companion for anyone navigating life's inner storms.Chaos and Clarity is a raw, emotional journey through the highs and lows of the human experience. These poems explore love, pain, self-discovery, and healing-with powerful imagery and honest reflection.Whether you're letting go, starting over, or...

To honor is to toll the bell of reason the many measures of lifeis a poetry book based on positive messages realistic feelings and the pain and triumphs and what it takes to succeed and surpass inner battles and the negative and positive aspects...

When did you last ask someone old about the life they lived before you knew them? Somewhere in your life, there is a person carrying an entire world inside them. A world of handwritten letters that took twelve days to arrive. Of Friday bread...

The Dream Beyond Life is not just a novel-it is a journey into the deepest questions of human existence. Everything begins with a dream. One ordinary night, a young man finds himself standing in an endless white void, watching the people he loves disappear...

Five short stories of Americana: An artiststuck in a low-wage job at a movie house asthe punk rock era kicks off in San Francisco.An 18-year-old's eye-opening road trip inthe early '70s. A NYC high school teacherdates an FDNY fireman post 9/11. A comicmonologue about...

She had spent years staring through rain-streaked windows, wondering if love had forgotten her name.While others danced through seasons of romance, she carried silence like an old coat-heavy, worn, and impossible to remove. Nights were her enemy. Dreams were dangerous things. Yet somewhere deep...

What if success isn't the destination you've been searching for?Aravindan has everything most people spend their lives chasing-a successful career, financial security, a loving family, and the respect of those around him. Yet beneath the surface of his carefully built life, a quiet emptiness...

A collection of contemplative poems about resilience, nature, love, grief, healing, and mental health. These poems address the feelings that unite us all and serve as a reminder that each stage of life has its own wisdom, beauty, and optimism through striking imagery and...

Emmanuel, a Ghanaian chef whose career collapses in Dubai, and he push through the pressure of paperwork, fines, and survival until his story finally finds its way to publication. What you get: - Instant download - 10 chapters, 110 pages - Compatible with Kindle...

"Verses Beyond the Horizon" evokes the emotions that establish our existence through poems of love, longing, courage, healing, and wonder. The poetic pieces are a blend of pensive reflections with vivid imagery from nature and everyday life. This compilation inspires readers to adopt changes,...

The Karanavar's Daughter is a novel about a hundred-year-old family spice house on the Malabar coast and the daughter who comes home to bury her father and finds she cannot leave. As a foreign buyer circles, a debt comes due, and the people who...

Sweeping Shrapnel: An Intermediate Guide to Survival is the second collection of poems and song lyrics by A.C. Harbor. It is the follow up to Lyrics: A Beginner Guide to Survival. Themes of love, loss and self-discovery are reflected in the prose.Author: A. C....

Seven Segments of Knowledge is a journey through seven dimensions of human understanding-nature, emotions, relationships, love, self-discovery, wisdom, and spiritual consciousness. Each poem reflects a step in the search for meaning, truth, and inner awareness. These verses are not merely expressions of thought, but...

From trenches to towers, from storms to silence-Forgotten Heroes honours those who served, those who sacrificed, and those who carried on.A collection of poems for soldiers, healers, rescuers, and everyday heroes-lest we forget.Author: Bethany Lauren GodfreyISBN-13: 9798269583020Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2025Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize:...

Rose (The Silent Sacrifice): Set in 1970, Rose is the "dutiful daughter." Her heart belongs to Miguel, a fisherman's son, but her love is silenced by her parents' demands for stability and social standing. She lives a life of quiet resignation, finding solace in...

History is often recorded in the dates of battles and the names of empires, but the true soul of a nation is etched deeply into the memory of its soil.Chronicles of India is a masterful tapestry woven from the vibrant threads of legend, sacrifice,...

Slow Fire follows Suhra, a young woman in the coastal town of Thalassery in Kerala, India, who inherits her grandmother's tiny business making a fermented chili condiment from a living culture that has been fed by hand for four generations, and who carries it...

Darko has spent years living inside a grey routine, convinced his life holds nothing special. Everything changes when he finds a black, untitled book, a Latin phrase about death, and a series of impossible encounters that begin to alter the way he sees the...

The Turning of Kadal House is a novel about a family spice business on the coast of Kerala, in southern India, and the daughter who comes home to save it. When her father suffers a stroke, Sara leaves a fast-rising career in city commerce...

"Fragments of the Dawn" is a luminous collection of brief and profound reflections on love, courage, hope, memory, freedom, and the human spirit. Each piece is a gentle breath, inhaling the emotions, lessons, and wonders that refine our lives. This compilation encourages the readers...

SOLITUDES and Yet... Love Antonio is on the verge of turning sixty when a virus drags him to the edge of the abyss. Struggling to breathe in the solitude of a hospital room, his only lifeline is the memory of a passion that flared...

Montana, 1958. The dust is still settling. A train is going away down the valley. A section hand sits on the gravel embankment, his hands shaking. A few feet from him, a young woman sits looking at the place where the train was. She...

Time, Jack - an urban wanderer - Finds himself stranded in the Appalachian Trail wilderness during a storm. On the brink of death, he is rescued by an enigmatic hermit named Oliver, a man who has cut himself off from the word to live...

He lost his girlfriend. She lost her husband. They found each other on a bench beneath a flickering lamp.Night after night, they talked about everything except their own names. They shared silence, secrets, and the slow healing of two people who had given up...

Me Without Him follows the journey of Archana, a flawed and deeply human girl who struggles through failures, mistakes, heartbreak, and self-doubt while trying to discover who she truly is. She is not perfect, and she does not always make the right choices, but...

POEG intertwines poetic mastery with academic exploration, addressing themes of self-acceptance, societal change, and the intersection of STEAM and STEM in modern life. This thought-provoking collection encourages adult learners to reflect on the future of education, innovation, and humanAuthor: Allen Adrian TompkinsISBN-13: 9798313820378Publisher: Independently...

Detective Jameson arrives at the Thompson mansion, where the lifeless body of Sarah Thompson lies in a chaotic crime scene. The opulent surroundings starkly contrast the violence that has occurred. Signs of struggle are evident, with disordered furniture and evidence of a frantic confrontation...

Collection of short stories compiling a series of troubled events coupled with a selection of inspirational tales about how to overcome any series of troubled events. Confronting topics ranging from relationship drama and break-ups, to hassles with the IRS, to the loss of one's...