Today's Featured Books
Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day By Cody Holmes
No amount of the hard, sweating work you do on the ranch - if you continue to make poor decisions - can bring you to the reality of successful ranching. Holmes has found that to be really successful, the critical factors are your decision making and planning abilities. Learn how to plan and make good decisions from Holmes, a cattleman who had struggled for decades to find this golden nugget. You too can feed more people than other ranchers, have grasslands that are more productive and useful than they previously were, and enjoy raising a family without spending all your time working. Ranching Full-Time on Three Hours a Day can show you how to have a life and be successful at ranching too. FREE – SHOP NOW /The Enlivened Rock Powders By Harvey Lisle
The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers, and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book from Acres U.S.A. Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual, cosmic side of rocks and drawing from his extensive knowledge of biodynamic techniques and dowsing, Lisle explains how to utilize these materials in agriculture. Peppered with in-depth quotations from other writings on the forces within rocks, this is destined to be the definitive work on the subject.
Life's tenuous connections to the cosmos is a concept almost all literate people think they understand. And yet the principles that enliven the engine of photosynthesis remain as elusive as our perceived comprehension of nature's tap into the Sun. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Spotlight on 30 Days of Transformative Holistic Healing
What if your body already knows how to heal—if you simply create the right conditions?
In 30 Days of Transformative Holistic Healing: A Guided Self-Healing Journey to Rebalance Your Mind, Body, Energy, and Nervous System, holistic practitioner and award-recognized author Kateryna Armenta invites you to explore a deeper understanding of health and healing.
Many people search for solutions outside themselves—through treatments, medications, and quick fixes. Yet true healing often begins when we reconnect with the body’s natural intelligence and learn how our lifestyle, emotions, beliefs, and environment influence our well-being.
This book is designed as a 30-day guided journey, helping you gradually build awareness, shift patterns, and support your body’s ability to restore balance.
Drawing from years of experience in sound and vibrational healing, nervous system regulation, and holistic wellness practices, Kateryna blends personal insights, scientific perspectives, and practical exercises that you can begin applying immediately. From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /
About the Author - Kateryna Armenta
Kateryna Armenta is an award-winning author, holistic practitioner, sound & vibration therapist, Reiki practitioner, NLP and HeartMath coach, and Qigong practitioner. She is deeply passionate about guiding her clients toward healing, personal growth, and unlocking their full potential. With a unique blend of transformative coaching and energy-based practices, Kateryna helps people overcome mental and emotional barriers, embrace self-awareness, and live with more balance, clarity, and joy.
Literary Lights 2026: Featuring Rebecca Rose Mooradian
Literary Lights 2026 is IALA's fourth annual reading series showcasing new works of literature by Armenian authors, cohosted with the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. Each event—held online or in-person—will feature a writer reading from their work, followed by a discussion with an interviewer and audience members. Read along with the series by purchasing Rose by the Sea and more titles at our Bookshop.org storefront.
Chasing Money by Michael Balter
AWARD-WINNING CRIME THRILLER - Marty and Bo were just trying to keep their struggling business alive when they met Nico Scava. He had money, connections in the art world, and a few too many secrets. Now Nico’s dead - and if the two friends don’t find a mysterious missing painting and $10 million they’ll be dead too. “Exceptionally clever and compelling.” Midwest Book Review. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /
You Have My Attention: A Dark Stalker Romance By Rebel Rose
I asked for obsession.
I didn’t know it came without boundaries.
The first note is an introduction.
The second, intimate.
By the third, I’m addicted.
I have his attention.
But the disturbing part?
He also has mine.
I should be afraid.
I’m not.
Something reckless stirs—hungry, wild, alive.
It starts as a game.
One I’m too eager to play.
But when it turns dark…I want him more. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /
Vampire Island of Nightfall: A Vampire Romantasy By Jade Christy
***** “Jade has written another wonderful Vampire Romantasy. I'm so excited for this series.”
***** “The tension and slow burn between Mia and Jude had me feeling it in my bones and frustrated in all the right ways.”
***** “…the connection between Mia and the vampire she shouldn’t want is written with real emotional weight. It’s fast, immersive, and sets up a world I’m already invested in continuing.”
A luxury yacht. A violent storm. A forbidden island that should not exist. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /
A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line By Charles Walters
This book is the culmination of Acres U.S.A. founder Charles Walters’ lifetime of experience, written in his honest, straight-ahead style, outlining how the small farmer-entrepreneur can find his way to a profitable bottom line. A Farmer's Guide to the Bottom Line provides how-to information on each step from planning to implementation of business practices for the eco-friendly farm and includes examples of people who are making a living, and a profit, by demanding a fair price for their labor. Whether you are considering taking up farming as an occupation or just interested in the economics and history of farming, this book is a must-read. FREE – SHOP NOW /
The Salatin Semester By Joel Salatin
What happens when trailblazing urban agro-ecologists Rob and Michelle Avis of Verge Permaculture host superstar “lunatic farmer” Joel Salatin for a three-day, three-workshop weekend…then expand and enhance that recorded wisdom in a three-month online intensive?
You get an encyclopedic compendium of small-farming entrepreneurial know-how! FREE – SHOP NOW /
Fertility Farming By Newman Turner
Fertility Farming explores an approach to farming that makes minimal use of plowing, eschews chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and encourages cover cropping and manure application. Newman Turner holds that the foundation of the effectiveness of a fertile soil - and the measure of a fertile soil - is its content of organic matter, ultimately, its humus. Upon a basis of humus, nature builds a complete structure of healthy life - without need for disease control of any kind. In fact, disease treatment is unnecessary in nature, as disease is the outcome of the unbalancing or perversion of the natural order - and serves as a warning that something is wrong. The avoidance of disease is therefore the simple practice of natural law. Much more than theory, this book was written to serve as a practical guide for farmers. Newman Turner's advice for building a productive, profitable organic farming system rings as true today as it did sixty years ago when it was written. FREE – SHOP NOW /The Myths of Safe Pesticides By Andre Leu
The chemical-based conventional agriculture industry claims that the synthesized concoctions they sell as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are safe when used as directed, but does the scientific evidence truly support their assertions? Organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into a wealth of respected scientific journals to present the peer-reviewed evidence that proves the claims of chemical companies and pesticide regulators are not all they seem. Leu translates technical jargon into layman's terms to break down the five most repeated myths about pesticide use: independent scientific analysis shows that pesticides are not at all as safe as industry leaders and regulatory agencies claim. The pesticide industry argues that human agriculture, and thereby the global population itself, cannot survive without using pesticides and herbicides, but Leu warns that human health is at great risk unless we break free of their toxic hold and turn to more natural methods of pest and weed regulation. FREE – SHOP NOW /Food, Farming & Health By Vandana Shiva
In these times of ecological peril, looming agricultural production problems, and creeping human health disaster it behooves all farmers and eaters to turn attention systems which are time-tested. And “time-tested” means millennia, not mere decades. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Homeopathy for the Herd By C. Edgar Sheaffer
Over the past 50 years, a dangerous set of technologies has crept into beef and dairy farms and ranches. Technologists have succeeded in pushing the pounds of milk that can be extracted from a cow higher and higher and throwing pounds of weight on beef cattle faster. But these advances came with a price.
The average age of dairy cow "burnout" has dropped for almost a decade. Infections are rampant. New diseases and health maladies have appeared. Drug use and vet bills have skyrocketed. The healthfulness of milk and beef has been questioned. FREE – SHOP NOW /
The Energetic Goat By Carrie Eastman
Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman, applying these methods to her goat herd was just common sense. All living things are made up of electrical energy. Learn how to harness this energy to work with your goats in a way that is convenient, inexpensive, and safe for your herd. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Holding The Lines: Horses, Hard Work, Love, and Potatoes By Maureen Ash
Farmer's daughter Maureen agreed completely with her mother's admonition: Never marry a farmer. Her marriage to a science geek with a good job meant a house on a lake and clean hands-until the farmer hidden inside him started scrabbling to escape. What began as a willingness to put up with his buying a tractor and renting a field becomes an all- encompassing endeavor to learn how to drive, raise, train, and work draft horses, grow and sell their crops, care for the land they had learned to love, maintain a sense of humor, and keep themselves and their children safe in the face of runaway teams, straight-line winds, and sub-zero temperatures. Holding the Lines is the story of a very ordinary woman's decision to find meaning in horses, hard work, love, and potatoes. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Equality for Robots: The Uprising By Brandie Van Hartesvelt
Brandie Van Hartesvelt, winner of a writing guild’s Best Upcoming Young Author award, crafts a self-reinvention tale about an amnesiac robot whose fight to save an underground community of refurbs ignites a robotic rights movement.
An equipment malfunction cost Archie his job and his identity. But when he’s kidnapped, he awakens with amnesia inside a secret underground society of sentient robots.
There, unlikely friendships form among him, a singing nanny bot, and a vacuum that speaks Morse code. The group must help Archie recover his memories and expose one of their own before a land grab leaves them all homeless. From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (Illustrated) by Mary Shelly
Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror
"I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly..." Revisit the masterpiece that birthed the science fiction genre. This Newly Illustrated Contemporary Edition brings Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original 1818 text to life with haunting, atmospheric visuals that capture the raw, tragic heart of the creature’s journey. This edition includes: The complete, unedited 1818 original text. 13 unique illustrations of pivotal scenes. Elegant formatting optimized for both Kindle and Print. From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /
Red Eye by Jinx James
Tired, wired, and looking for a quick escape? Woke up on the wrong side of the bed—and life? Skip the double espresso; you need a Red Eye -a high-octane jolt of satirical chaos, featuring four stories of women pushed to the edge and finding the funny side of the drop. It’s the perfect caffeine-fuelled quick escape for your next coffee break. Sharply written and unforgivingly tense, Red Eye proves that the most dangerous person in the room is the one you underestimated, and she’s enjoying having her revenge. New Release. From $0.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /
Journal of the Plague Years: End Notes by John Rember
Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
“A powerful chronicle filled with contemplative moments.” – Midwest Book Review. Rember reflects on life in Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley during the Covid-19 pandemic, finding humor, honesty, and small pockets of light in dark and uncertain times. “The writing is flawless. If you can call a journal of the pandemic a page turner, this is one.” – Amazon review From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /
A Wordless Death (Adele Gossling Mysteries: Book 2) by Tam May
Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror
Adele Gossling is adjusting well to small-town life. But then Millie Gibb, the new teacher at the local girls’ school, is found dead, and everybody in town assumes she committed suicide. Can Adele and her clairvoyant friend Nin prove that Millie’s death was foul play based on a cigar stub, a letter fragment, and a cigarette lighter before the case is closed for good? “An excellent story with great characters!” From $0.99 – SHOP NOW /
One Reckless Night by Cassie Grant
I had one reckless night with a stranger—no names, no promises. Weeks later, he walks into my small-town bakery as the billionaire planning to tear down Main Street, my mother’s legacy included. His offer could save everything… or cost me my heart. Because to him, my world isn’t home—it’s strategy. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Mind the Child by CHRYSTALLA KOULERMOU
Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror
A young police officer haunted by childhood trauma lives a double life. By day he serves the law. By night he becomes a vigilante hunting those who escape justice. When buried truths threaten his bond with the man he loves like a father, he must choose between love and vengeance. FREE – SHOP NOW /
Behind the Border By Nina Kossman
With poignant innocence, Kossman writes of her childhood experiences in Russia.... Each chapter relates a memory tinged with the effects of the totalitarian regime that influenced every aspect of her and her family's lives. The opening vignette reveals the unexpected restrictions of the border when a beach ball floats out to sea and young Nina is told that she would never be allowed into Turkey to retrieve it. In the subsequent chapters, the author describes situations through the eyes of a 7-to-10-year-old in which adults reveal either fear of authority or of autocratic bullying. Her parents try to protect her, but her experiences at school eventually result in surprisingly mature conclusions as she comes to realize, fear, and resent the strictures under which she lives. ... From $2.99 – SHOP NOW /
The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor By D.R. Berlin
Mystery Thriller Crime and Horror
When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play.
Sophie Allard has spent her life earning her wings at one of the military’s most elite academies. But when her estranged father dies in a mysterious explosion at their family estate, Sophie’s world shatters. The official story doesn’t add up—and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. From $2.99. Free via KU. SHOP NOW /
Writers' Room of Boston - Readings from the Room
Join us for an evening at the Writers' Room of Boston, Readings from the Room on March 26th @ 7:30. This on-line event hosted by Lilly Milman will feature the work of Aishvarya.