New this week
The latest additions to The Library's collection
If you have a complete or in-progress work you’d like added to The Library or an indie-published book to include in the Buy Indie section, follow this guide, and we’ll help spread the word.
And thanks again to everyone for helping us support indie authors!
In the stacks
Literary
Carousel | George Chasco | (N) (C) (F → $)
New posts are freely available for two weeks before going paid.
Two lovers, united by a night in bed, discover that rather than walk away and separate in shame they want to spend their time together. She has a train in the evening, hours away, and he'll do what it takes to have those hours with her. Together they explore Paris: art, Seine and Notre Dame; they discover, accidentally, reluctantly, with stinging passion and aching hope, that they’ve fallen in love.
A Footnote to Plato, a novel | Tina Lee Forsee | Campus novel (N) (I) ($)
A Footnote to Plato takes place in 2012 at a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont. Philosophy professor Dr. Isaac Fischelson finds himself embroiled in a student drama that leads to a false accusation of sexual harassment and an investigation intended to force him out. He faces a disgraceful end to his long career unless he retires immediately. But Dr. Fischelson refuses to be, as his students like to say, an epic failure. Zeb is a promising math student who has resorted to dealing coke to pay for college. He lives on a failed hippie commune with his toxic mother, who seems intent on bankrupting her son, both materially and spiritually. Zeb tries his best to escape her world, but what he really needs is a bit of luck. The two meet in the Maintenance Committee and soon form a Socrates-Plato bond. When Zeb offers to help the professor put together an online lecture series, Dr. Fischelson decides to take him and a small group of students to Greece to film it. It's an opportunity of a lifetime for Zeb and Dr. Fischelson's last chance to save his reputation--and maybe leave behind a legacy.
Historical Fiction
The Harvey Girl | Ann Audree | Historical, Thriller & Mystery (N) (I) (F)
In 1891, a young New York City socialite leaves home to find her missing father, becoming a Harvey Girl and solving mysteries along the way. She’ll also run into some famous characters — artists, inventors — and tangle with a darkly alluring Pinkerton agent.
Speculative
Fantasy
The Sága’s Fable Mind Series | H. M. Vigness | Action/Adventure/Satire (NA) (I) (F)
A collection of mythic adventure stories set in the present day and told from a feminine point of view. The series follows ancient goddesses, witches, shapeshifters, troll-wives, prophetesses, and other forces of nature as they gather on earth (Miðgardr) to retell the myths, legends, and fables via a podcast before waging a war against man. This is an ongoing serial fiction story that contains dark humor and themes of climate change, social injustice, misogyny, sexism, hypocrisy, and other disturbing sh*t that is not suitable for children or overly sensitive non-children.
Science Fiction
Oceanus | Hanna Delaney | Science Fiction, Thriller (N) (I) (F)Â
Gripped by an inescapable pull of gravity, the SS Demeter floats helplessly in orbit around a newly discovered earth-like planet. The crew have vanished leaving all but one man behind. Survivors on the planet find themselves separated and forced to face the substance of their own dreams and nightmares. Unbeknownst to them, they are being watched. Oceanus tells a classic story of betrayal, forgiveness, love and deception. Oceanus is a futuristic thriller inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. If anyone is to find their way back home, the truth must be revealed.
Thriller & Mystery
Bear & Cub | Brothers Krynn | Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy (N) (I) (F) → ($)
The first 4 chapters are free.
Two murders and all changes in Valhol. It takes the murder of his children for Hroðgar to turn on his liege-lord and to see him and the man’s sons for what they are. What ensues is a blood-feud that will take Hroðgar and his last remaining son, Sigewulf, from the frozen wasteland of Valhol, to Bretwealda in the west, and from safety into blood-soaked fields.
Nonfiction
Truth and Generosity: How Truth Makes Language Possible | Neal Weiner and Tina Lee Forsee | Philosophy (N) (I) (F → $)
First three chapters are free, subsequent chapters offer previews.
It doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact you are able to understand the words you're reading right now—that we can communicate through language—means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. Truth is the condition that makes language possible.
Are you publishing a book, comic, or story/poetry collection on Substack that you’d like to add to The Library? Send it our way!
Buy Indie
Literary
A Footnote to Plato, a novel | Tina Lee Forsee | Campus novel (N)
A Footnote to Plato takes place in 2012 at a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont. Philosophy professor Dr. Isaac Fischelson finds himself embroiled in a student drama that leads to a false accusation of sexual harassment and an investigation intended to force him out. He faces a disgraceful end to his long career unless he retires immediately. But Dr. Fischelson refuses to be, as his students like to say, an epic failure. Zeb is a promising math student who has resorted to dealing coke to pay for college. He lives on a failed hippie commune with his toxic mother, who seems intent on bankrupting her son, both materially and spiritually. Zeb tries his best to escape her world, but what he really needs is a bit of luck. The two meet in the Maintenance Committee and soon form a Socrates-Plato bond. When Zeb offers to help the professor put together an online lecture series, Dr. Fischelson decides to take him and a small group of students to Greece to film it. It's an opportunity of a lifetime for Zeb and Dr. Fischelson's last chance to save his reputation--and maybe leave behind a legacy.
Historical Fiction
GOLD! The Kincaid Saga, Book One | Thomas Greenbank | Historical Fiction/Family Saga (Australia, 1975-2005) (N)
Murder, greed, and betrayal come to a head in GOLD!, the family saga set in the Western Australian gold mining industry from 1975 to 2005. Malcolm Kincaid, a self-made man and ruthless businessman, will stop at nothing to build his business empire, even if it means sacrificing his own family. Rachel, his one-time fiancé and mother of his child, is forced to work with the man she has grown to despise. Unaware of his true parentage, their son Lachlan rises through the ranks in the company while Rachel struggles to protect him from Malcolm's influence. Over three decades, Malcolm Kincaid uses, abuses, and dominates associates and family alike, crushing all opposition in his pursuit of wealth and power. When he allows the pollution of an Aboriginal settlement’s water supply however, he faces justice of a kind he could never imagine. If you enjoy tales with intrigue and family secrets you'll love GOLD!, a story of loyalty, retribution, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Grab your copy now and hang on — it may be a bumpy ride! Also at Draft2Digital.
Nonfiction
Truth and Generosity: How Truth Makes Language Possible | Neal Weiner and Tina Lee Forsee | Philosophy (N)
It doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact you are able to understand the words you're reading right now—that we can communicate through language—means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. Truth is the condition that makes language possible.
Can readers buy your indie book from your author's website or favorite online bookseller? Provide us a link and some details about your book, and we’ll help get the word out!
From the Archive
Featuring a different, randomly-selected book every week
Beautiful but Unlikely | Julie Weigley | Literary (N) (C) (F)
Beautiful but Unlikely is a coming-of-age novel about finding your place in the world on your own terms in your own time. The way the measure of a man should be taken—by the money he makes or the leadership he exhibits. In both cases, courage is needed to cross boundaries and not be ruled by what others think. Amy Templeton is a college graduate full of private passions, but in need of public markers. She stumbles her way from crisis to crisis in her journey, watching for her ‘knights, in the form of money or men.' Drawing on the legend of her beloved Birman cats, each of whom carries the soul of a priest released to heaven upon the feline’s death, she manages to change over time, in her own time, from a spectator at loose ends to the type of purposeful individual she could once only admire.
Thank you for such a fantastic idea!
Lots of choices here people! Are you sending your OWN stories in so others can read it? It's the best thing you can do -- okay the 2nd best. The Best thing you can do is RESTACK this!