INDIE AUTHOR CORNER
This month's recommendations
A Small Hotel
Summary: An American Family. A World War. A First Love. A Small Hotel
SHOCKED: Life and Death at 35,000 Feet
Summary: In 1996, a defibrulator was placed on American Airlines airplanes. SHOCKED follows how countless lives were saved as the device proliferated after this successful experiment of placing the device into the hands of people without medical training: flight attendants.
Fitlosophy
Summary: Sophie’s coaching is based on psychological research and philosophical wisdom to help individuals find meaning in their fitness routines and, by extension, their lives.
Recent Indie Author Corner Books
November, 2021
Divine Sparks
Summary: Practical and inspiring wisdom from the world's great religious traditions for people of all faiths, or none.
Creek of Bones
Summary: Kev MacGuire is dying. Crabbing comforts him, and one day he catches a strange, gold medallion. While he and his friends search for other treasures, news of an ancient cure turns the lighthearted quest into a race to cheat death.
Drumossie
Summary: Fiona stood, frozen in shock. The man she had been embracing with everything in her soul wasn’t her boyfriend Greg…He was the man she had loved for three hundred years.
October, 2021
The Bitchographies: Random Commentaries About Life, Love, and Knockoff Christian Louboutins
Summary: Tired of following a complicated script of dos and don’ts, Vuitton bares all in her hilariously unfiltered vignettes. Nothing is off-limits, from dating disasters to botched Botox, calculating colleagues to fake friends, and so much more!
Losing the Atmosphere, A Memoir: A Baffling Disorder, a Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood
Summary: Born in 1940s Brooklyn, Vivian Conan grew up in two different worlds. Outside, she had friends, excelled in school; inside, she saw faces that weren't hers in her bedroom mirror that bathed her in the love and understanding she craved. Told with honesty, humor, and grace, Losing the Atmosphere is Vivian Conan's riveting account of her journey toward wholeness. 2021 Independent Audiobook Awards Finalist and Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorite.
The Pursued and the Pursuing
Summary: While F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby ends after Jay Gatsby is shot and killed, The Pursued and the Pursuing explores what might have been had it left Gatsby with another chance at happiness. Find it he does, although not in the arms of Daisy Buchanan.
About the Books
The Indie Author Corner is a collaboration between Bookclubz and Dartfrog to expose book clubs to new, independent authors and books! Dartfrog books are the best in independently published literature. DartFrog uses professional editorial standards to curate book store and book club worthy books from self-publishers, hybrid publishers, and smaller traditional publishers. We're bringing recommended DartFrog books to you, each with a book club discussion guide. Enjoy!
