This month’s Indie Discovery List offers plenty of fresh recommendations, with stories spanning romance, fantasy, historical fiction, poetry, memoir and more. Whether you’re in the mood for love, adventure, reflection or reinvention, these indie picks offer new voices, unexpected journeys and lots of reasons to keep turning the page.
Over the Hills and Far Away by Daniel Mack
Literary Fiction
Facing retirement, an irregular heartbeat and a changing world, an aging therapist wrestles with free will, faith, the meaning of a life well lived — and what to do with the freedom he still has.
Passport to Freedom: From Tehran to Triumph by Nizam Missaghi, M.D.
Memoir
Born an American but raised under persecution in Iran, a teenager makes a harrowing escape in search of freedom — only to discover that true freedom is as personal as it is geographic.
Sidelined Souls by Sarah A. Bailey
Romance
An emotional accidental-pregnancy romance about life-changing surprises, shattered boundaries and two childhood sweethearts forced to decide if their love is worth risking everything for.
Scripts by Brandon Knightley
Historical Fiction
Trapped in a cold marriage, Arlene discovers a hidden gift for writing that awakens her sense of self in this tender mid-century novel of silence, intimacy and liberation.
Chaos Reveals It: Leadership Lessons and Stories from the Front Lines of 9/11, Disasters, Diplomacy, Business, and Beyond by Bradford E. Billet
Leadership
A compelling and deeply personal exploration of leadership forged in moments of extraordinary pressure. Bradford Billet transforms decades of experience in crisis, government, diplomacy and business into practical lessons that every leader can use when certainty disappears and character is tested.
Dancing Through Seafoam by Diane Skye Gropper
Poetry
A magical and moving collection of poetry exploring life, death, rebirth, and the eternal circle of life that connects us all. Inviting to poetry lovers and non-lovers alike.
Crossing Division Street by Rebecca Chamian Ribaudo
Historical Fiction
A chance encounter with a girl escaping Chicago’s Cabrini-Green pulls attorney Sidone Russo into a century of family history, forcing her to choose between the principles she lives by and the heritage she left behind. Preorder now.
Reckoning: A Journey Through Tragedy, Triumph & Transcendence by Jim Minarik
Memoir
After business success fails to ease the wounds of his past, a CEO turns inward, confronting family trauma, depression and identity in a raw memoir of healing, reinvention and spiritual awakening.
a written self-portrait "On Tragedy" Volume II by Louis Gale
Experimental Fiction
In this second volume in the A Written Self-Portrait series, Amstel, a man struggling to make sense of a fractured reality, explores confinement, love, consciousness and the worlds his mind creates.
The Yonder by Donald Samson
Fantasy
Magpie helps Constance find her husband, gone missing in a place only he can find. Along the way, he makes a rash wager with the Devil and incautiously owes a life to Death. Available at the retailers below or on the author’s website.
