Beyond the bestsellers: Find your next literary obsession.
October 6, 2026
The mountains caught fire in August. He had already seen the end of the world.
Chicago, 1903. On the coldest afternoon of the year, fireman Silas Dunne climbs the marble stairs of the Iroquois Theater and finds a wall of the dead. He carries out one small girl who is still breathing. His own daughter is not among the living.
For seven years afterward, Dunne drifts west with no destination but away. He works the wheat harvest in Nebraska. He tends the hoist above the copper mines of Butte
October 1, 2026
This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the gnawed bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of what you think you know. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, all the best they never told you in school. 360 pages, illustrated.
• Quest for the Mind Code; how the mind is programmed by the environment.
• New Evidence: How early experience "hardwires" the brain for perception, language, emotion, culture, love, sex....
August 31, 2026
Engineering project management is more than schedules, budgets, and status meetings. It’s knowing what to do when the budget starts disappearing, the schedule slips, the client changes direction, or an engineer says, *“Don’t worry—we’re on track.”*
August 17, 2026
Here’s a **tight, compact version** that keeps the punch without the extra weight:
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In the summer of 1981, a nineteen‑year‑old in a sweltering Maryland trailer hears a voice that isn’t his—and it saves his life. The voice sticks around. Good thing, because things are about to get complicated.
Enter Valerie North: five‑foot‑two of Italian‑Irish chaos with a knockout laugh and a talent for blowing cartoon‑shaped holes through a man’s emotional defenses. What follows is first love at full blast—dockside kisses under Christmas lights, an 80s new‑wave soundtrack, and a narrator so dazzled he starts mentally rebuilding himself just to keep up.
But it doesn’t stay simple. Or funny. Spetz spends the next thirty years revisiting what he got wrong—through memory, therapy, and a dry humor he seems to have grown for survival.
*Magnetic North* is part stand‑up, part gut‑punch: a memoir about bullying, grief, first love, and the stubborn work of forgiving the kid you used to be. Honest, sharp, and packed with enough needle drops to score your own quarter‑life crisis. Proof that even a busted compass can still point you home.
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If you want it **even shorter**, **more dramatic**, or **more sales‑pitchy**, tell me the vibe and I’ll tune it.
