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A Biochemist's Novel Imagines the Sense Humans Lost When Speech Began
Biochemist Christer Jansson's Genes of the Past uses a fictional 550,000-year-old Moroccan fossil to propose a sense ancient hominins lost when spoken words began replacing mental images.
Katrina Bills Wrote an Award-Winning Daily Prayer Devotional That Doubles as a Spiritual Growth Manual
The Chicago-born author and publisher built Prayed Up around real seasons of loss, love, and faith, then watched it win a NYC Big Book Award.
Cindy Divine Is the Fictional Girl Holding a Mirror to Real American Politics
Shafter Bailey's debut novel follows a traumatized girl who becomes a global figure, but the real target is the political class that lets children fall through the cracks.
John Green's New Book Ends a Nine-Year Silence
The Fault in Our Stars author announces Hollywood, Ending, his first novel since 2017 and his first work of adult fiction.
Author James C. Clemens Jr on the Poems That Came From Listening to God
In Echoes of Strength, James C. Clemens Jr turns real experiences of struggle, family, and faith into inspirational poetry that reads less like verse and more like testimony.
Therapist Glen Alex Says the Entire Boundary Conversation Is Wrong
Licensed clinical social worker Glen Alex spent 25 years watching clients fall short of healthy boundaries, not because they lacked willpower, but because the advice was wrong. Her new book Living Boundaries makes the case against "just say no."
Emma Hartwell Wrote Pixie Littlefield for Children. The Mothers Who Read It Had Other Ideas
Author Emma Hartwell's neurodivergent heroine Pixie Littlefield has sparked an unexpected wave of adult readers, women who recognise their own undiagnosed neurodivergence in a children's picture book.
Author Karen Lawrence Delivered Babies in the NHS, Now She Delivers Bestselling Stories
Former NHS midwife Karen Lawrence began writing during the Covid pandemic. Her debut novel The Last Midwife, a dystopian thriller about state-controlled childbirth, became a bestseller.
How a Dream About a Polar Bear Became a Children's Book on Climate and the Food Chain
Artist Jane Dugan and author Esther Meerschaut created Hope For The Future after a vivid dream led Dugan to First Nations polar bear legends — and a mission to teach young readers about ecological responsibility.
Dr Egilius Spierings Made Headache Science Worth Hearing
A neurologist with over four decades of clinical experience turns headache research into an audiobook that finally explains what your doctor never had time to.
Kath Orman on the Money Habits Your Parents Gave You
After three decades in financial planning, Kath Orman wrote a book about the emotional patterns that shape how we handle money.
Christina Marullo Found Her Strength by Letting Go of Control
A mother of eight and co-founder of Only God, Christina Marullo shares how trusting in something greater became her most powerful act of faith.