BookShelf

Welcome to the digital bookshelf! All the books and stories here are either self-published or independently published, and each has been carefully reviewed by Bookshelfie to ensure quality control. We invite you to browse and discover your next great read!

Why do some lives appear destined to fail, while others seem to progress despite setbacks and misfortune? Why are we so quick to associate these different outcomes with luck? “The Luck Illusion” is a short, thoughtful nonfiction book about how we understand luck and its relationship with causality, success, failure, ...

This collection of poems is a map of my 37-year journey, not linear, not tidy, but real. This is the culmination of that chapter of my life. It’s a trail of fragments and fractures, of raw truths and soft places to land. These poems are what remain when everything else ...

Raw, haunting, and unapologetically honest, The Memoir of a Flash Dancer is a gripping novel about resilience, identity, and the price of chasing freedom in a city that feeds on broken dreams.

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Moby Dick meets The Odyssey, but with airships and Habsburgs. Declan McGowan truly understood naval engineering – but the enormous vessel that nearly destroyed the protected cruiser Atlanta was unlike any ship he’d ever seen, and the mysterious weapon it deployed was powerful beyond anything he could have imagined. But ...

Vendetta: Legend of the Iron Warrior Vol. 3 is a critically acclaimed, editor-recommended, and Top Choice dark fantasy noir thriller blending cinematic superhero action, spiritual warfare, psychological conflict, and deeply human themes of redemption, identity, reputation, and faith. A mythic superhero deconstruction set in the cursed streets of Carnage Coast, ...

Nineteen years ago, a powerful witch aided a king in battle, and in return, she asked that his newly born daughter be promised in marriage to a dragon when she came of age.     As the young princess Rhiannon grew up, however, her parents regretted that promise, so they ...

A rogue planet is coming.Humanity has a plan. Pete wakes in POD 217 with blood on his face and no memory of yesterday. The Last Great City is clean and pleasurable and perfectly controlled. Its citizens submit to the cycle.Reset.Comply.Repeat. Pete keeps failing the reset. As extinction approaches, fractured lives ...

With forces smart enough to trick you into abandoning your true self, free agency is hard to come by, let alone achieve. Will the boy recognize these dangers, or will he lose himself on his journey?

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