Bookshelf

(StarTracker Publishing, 2025).

What if reading one short story each week could guide you closer to the life you were meant to live? This inspiring collection is designed to do just that — help you to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and rediscover the simple joys in everyday life.

(The Troy Book Makers, 2025).

One reviewer had this to say about the author’s third book of poetry: “Bernini's Selected Poems cover lots of ground. They are masterful examples of the ‘poet-as-guide,’ assisting the reader in a spiritual exploration of life’s varied terrain. Insightful, funny, educational, awesome wordsmithery.”

(Fordham University Press, 2026).

As we consider our relationship with the planet in the age of climate change, David Morris asks: Can we continue to be mere stewards of nature, or could parks help us reimage our role as participants inseparable from the natural world?

(Little Creek Press, 2024/2025).

Following Who Are You? (2022), the first book in Bob Lund’s Lake Superior Trilogy, come these final installments where cliffhangers and unresolved issues come to a head with sometimes deadly consequences.

(Ballantine Books, 2025).

How cool is it when your literary idol has this to say about your latest book? “A miraculous novel — an actual and spiritual road trip you won’t forget.”

(Gallery Books, 2025).

Heartwarming, romantic, and laugh-out-loud funny, this debut novel tells two equally riveting stories that intertwine. One focuses on rival editors, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath, who find themselves competing for the rights to an estate of a literary legend, Edward Adams, following his death. The second story travels back in time 40 years to recount the early career of Rebecca’s mother, Jane, who unbeknownst to her daughter once had a connection with Adams.

(De Gruyter, 2025).

How can leading companies thrive in an emerging future that prioritizes decarbonization and dematerialization? This book aims to help investors, citizens, students, and educators discover proven strategies for sustainable growth; CEOs and corporate secretaries to reframe board agendas; and boards to measure performance and chart a course to transform climate risk into opportunity.

(Marrowstone Press, 2025)

According to the publisher, this volume is “a mediation on the tragic and variously religious or metaphysical deep pasts of Greek, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, and Nordic poetries and fragments of poems or plays whose implicit voices are summoned to the present through the re-creations of memory, not through translation but a dialogic, free rendition of them, making new poems from old ones. Among its reimagined voices are those of the Greek tragedians, Horace, a few of the earliest Chinese and Japanese poets, and the lays and sagas of Northern Europe.

(Columbia University Press, 2025).

The arrival of the Trump administration marked a sharp shift in how the federal government viewed its own role. Promising to cut red tape and rethink Washington’s bureaucracy, the president’s agenda tested long-standing norms of democratic governance. But what happens to civil servants when political leadership seeks to redefine the government they serve? How do they balance their professional obligations with shifting visions of democracy and public trust?

(NFB Publishing, 2025).

The author worked for nine years as curator for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House complex, and this novel draws from his personal process of discovery. “It’s a meditation on sublimity and the futility of finite knowledge, exploring themes of personal, professional, and spiritual doubt,” he said.