Brave by Jenise Michele

WriteHive Book Club

Jenise is one of the most talented poets WriteHive has ever had the pleasure to work with. She was the host of the Poetry Reading Open Mic Night during WriteHive 2020, where her readings -- right from this very book -- moved many of us to tears. Emotional, jaw-dropping, and immensely powerful, you absolutely want to check out this diverse collection of poetry from an absolutely amazing poet.

Good Brave People by Nicholas Trahdal

Whenever acclaimed author Jasper Augustine needs to get inspired for his next book, he goes traveling. That’s what he seeks when he books a flight to San Sebastián for a month in the summer—just a little inspiration. In Spain’s Basque Country, what Jasper discovers is a life-changing exploration of culture, food, drink, human connection, and love that causes him to question the meaning of the word “home”. The culinary and cultural descriptions in Good Brave People will leave you ready to travel.

Prince Ewald the Brave by Dylan Madeley

"No, father. You have gotten your way for too long. This ends here." Meet the Kenderleys, the wealthiest and most powerful family in the world. The youngest, Prince Bonifaz, takes his lessons and trusts no one. The middle child, Princess Isabel, sneaks away to a secret regency of her own making. Their mother, Queen Dulcibella, watches out for her children just as readily as she watches over them. Their father, King Jonnecht, is a capricious tyrant who hopes to control his family as strictly as he does the largest empire, and his violent rage threatens all under his rule. Then there’s Prince Ewald, eldest and heir to the throne. No one is more aware of the threat his father poses to everyone. No one has better legal standing to do anything about it. How can he save everyone he loves while upholding his mother’s kind values? He must learn the lessons required to be the best regent, choose allies wisely and earn their trust, and enact a thoughtful and detailed plan. And even if he succeeds in all that, can one who draws the line and conducts a plan with honour defeat one whose rage, selfishness, and deceit know no bounds? Can Prince Ewald stop his father? A standalone prequel to the Gift-Knight Trilogy. Cover by Jenn St-Onge.

I Copy My Way to Ascension by Brave

Bai Chen arrives in a cultivation world with no money, connections, or powerful background. His only advantage is the Entry Copying System, which allows him to copy a talent trait from another cultivator each month. Rather than courting danger, he joins a sect, keeps his head down, and quietly accumulates extraordinary gifts. Talents for alchemy, artifact forging, spirit plants, talismans, and beast taming—abilities others might spend a lifetime pursuing—gradually become his own. While everyone dismisses Bai Chen as an ordinary disciple with mediocre spiritual roots, he builds an overwhelming foundation in the shadows. His plan is simple: avoid trouble, make friends, and grow stronger where no one is looking. But in a cultivation world filled with rival sects, hidden dangers, and powerful enemies, staying unnoticed may prove harder than ascending itself.

Of Bravery and Bluster (Book 2 - Worlds Afire) by Scott Kelemen

Book 2 of Worlds Afire After years of intense training in the star system of Havoc, five cadets are nearing graduation from the Academy which trains officers for the Alliance Navy, the force responsible for protecting humanity in a region of space far from Earth. Having survived every test the Academy has to offer, including a deadly encounter with rogue cadets that was never planned, the cadets must now embark on a new series of challenges that will have them face to face with aliens, meet high powered politicians, and tested for bravery under deadly stress. Yet as difficult as those trials might be, there are worse dangers stalking them in the dark. The agents who manipulated the rogue cadets seek a reckoning for their disrupted plans, and an old enemy is about to resurface who is not nearly as dead as everyone thinks. The Academy wants to test the mettle of these cadets. But what they are about to experience will go far beyond anything their instructors ever intended.