Fiction -Medical Suspense
The Oath - By Erica Harris. 
Set within the closed ranks of academic medicine, THE OATH follows Sean Miller, a respected anesthesiologist whose faith in institutional order fractures after his young son nearly dies during routine surgery. As Sean’s marriage deteriorates and his trust in the system erodes, he begins to notice subtle distortions inside the hospital he once believed in: shifting transplant priorities, selectively applied emergency protocols, and outcomes that align too neatly with institutional interests. He uncovers a covert internal network exploiting legitimate medical infrastructure to move bodies, organs, and approvals through illicit channels, operating through bureaucracy and plausible deniability rather than overt criminality. Sean is not coerced but identified for his precision, restraint, and reliability. Each decision he makes is defensible in isolation, yet cumulatively implicates him in harm he can no longer ignore.

Fiction - New Adult 
Shopping Now: Run Riot by Daniel Walls
Arrested at fifteen, a runaway at sixteen, and facing life in prison at seventeen; Jacky McShane is fleeing a childhood mired by financial hardship and religious extremes. Chasing what it means to be normal. However, this is rural America in the 1980s, and once he’s typecast, it’s firm as an unfortunate tattoo. In the same lane as Jonathan Tropper or Nikolas Butler

​Young Adult - Picaresque Science Fiction
Shopping Now: Ninja, Spaceman, Cowboy, Pirate by Ian Power
Consider NINJA SPACEMAN COWBOY PIRATE as a picaresque, one set in the near future that combines the cli-fi dystopian overtures of Snowglobe by Soyoung Park with the wry voice of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. It will have broad appeal to fans of the apocalyptic humor in I Think We’ve Been Here Before by Susan Krause.  ​Armed with nothing but his grit, a hyper-intelligent fox, and a solar motorcycle, Digby embarks on a chaotic journey. As a fugitive, he must now battle the same ninjas, pirates and cowboys he once aspired to be. And when he crosses paths with a cutthroat band of rebels led by his ex-girlfriend, Digby decides to infiltrate the capital and help topple the Winthorpe government.
 
Non-Fiction - Memoir ​
Through Hell: An Unwanted Boy, An Unbreakable Man by Eric Uddin
By any risk chart, I’m the kid who should be dead, incarcerated, or lost to addiction.

I grew up an unwanted pregnancy to a fifteen-year-old girl in Minnesota, in a home where domestic violence was the soundtrack and stability was a rumor. By eleven, I was homeless—bouncing between shelters, cars, and strangers’ floors. When my mother’s untreated schizophrenia worsened, she walked me down to a homeless camp on the Mississippi and handed me to a man on a boat “because it was God’s plan.” What followed was a week of sexual abuse and violence that nearly ended my life and permanently rewired how my body understood the world.
Through Hell follows what happens next: how a boy learns to survive chronic neglect, emotional and physical abuse, fatherlessness, and homelessness—then slowly, stubbornly claws his way out. The story is built around escalating scenes rather than reflection alone, with the turning points coming from people who refused to let me disappear.

Non-Fiction - Cooking
​Shopping Now: Cooking My Way Home: An Expatriate’s Journey from the Argentine Pampas to the Minnesota Prairie by Carolina Li A stunning collection of Argentine recipes Carolina grew up with adapted for American kitchens, re-created family recipes passed down verbally from great-grandparents, and recipes inspired by life in Minnesota

​Non-Fiction -Memoir
Shopping Now: Broken Birds: The Love Song Chronicles by Mark Mallman  
Narrative follows Mallman’s intense, whirlwind affair with Sylvia, a music executive in an open marriage. Set against the backdrop of Minneapolis and a bicoastal connection, our story explores the ecstasy and heartbreak of unconventional love, set to a soundtrack of personal discovery. The book delves into themes of mental health, mortality, and the quest for authentic connection in a world saturated with fleeting digital moments.
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January 2026
DoppelHouse Press 
Happy To Be Here - by Ali Sultan
Happy to Be Here and Funny First comedian Ali Sultan's HAPPY TO BE HERE: THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE JOKES, sharing personal stories that have been forged from the hard life of a Muslim immigrant seeking to belong, about the author's life in Yemen and Somalia, and the struggles to adapt and learn a new language and different way of life in the United States

​September 2025
Weldon Owen / Insight Editions
 Last Individualist - by Martin Keller
A singular Dylan memoir that combines substantial personal interactions, a weighty interview and professional analysis of the Nobel Laureate’s life, work and times, The Last Individualist features a 3+ hour taped interview from 1983 never before published or heard in its entirety, while also recapping a week on Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour.​

February 2025
Shamus Award-winning author Carolina Garcia-Aguilera's HAVANA HEAT and six more in the Lupe Solano mystery series, about a scrappy Miami PI whose social status as a daughter of the Cuban-exile aristocracy opens a lot of doors in South Florida, to Christine Gillespie at Open Road, in a multi-book deal, for publication in fall 2025
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