Nonfiction Book Club Picks
October 15, 2025 through October 21, 2025
Issue #2
-> Free and low-cost ebooks
-> Print book giveaways
Free and Low-Cost Ebooks
Follow the link for each ebook below to download free and low-cost nonfiction ebooks. Please verify price before you make a purchase as prices are subject to change and price changes are outside of our control. Enjoy!
EMBRACE THE MIDDLE: A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO MINDFULLY NAVIGATING THE CHALLENGES, CELEBRATING THE JOYS, AND FINDING POWER IN MIDLIFE BY SHAYNA KAUFMANN
In Embrace the Middle, psychologist, meditation teacher, and award-winning author Dr. Shayna Kaufmann shines a compassionate light on this often-overlooked stage of life. Drawing from her original research with more than 600 women worldwide, she captures both the challenges and the profound gifts midlife holds.
Through relatable stories, practical tools, humor, and her signature SOFTT process, Dr. Kaufmann guides you to meet the changes of midlife—physical, emotional, and spiritual—with courage and compassion. You’ll learn how to navigate transitions with grace, and open to the joy and power on the other side.
This isn’t a book about “getting through” midlife. It’s about being more present to the magic of these transformative decades and waking up to who you truly are. Let Embrace the Middle be your guide to experience midlife as not just meaningful, but also transformational.
Rate: $3.99
SEEKING FAIRNESS AT WORK: CRACKING THE NEW CODE OF GREATER EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT, RETENTION & SATISFACTION BY HANNA HASL-KELCHNER
Multi-award-winning book challenges employer “truths” by examining unwritten workplace norms – the invisible lines that when crossed, create organizational dysfunction. This new perspective on employee engagement explains employees’ legitimate frustration and identifies missed management opportunities to improve workplace culture.
Recognized business strategist and Journal of Business Ethics Education editorial board member Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, MBA, JD identifies the five most common workplace norms that betray fairness, leaving employees feeling dispirited, disengaged, and headed for the door by examining the social psychology of how our basic human motivations intersect with the implied workplace social contract.
Clarion Foreward Reviews calls it “pithy and persuasive,” while BookLife Review compares it to Kim Scott’s Radical Respect and Kim Dabb’s You Belong Here.
It’s ideal for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to raise their employees’ game instead of their defenses; the human resource professionals, consultants, and employment attorneys who advise them; and employees wanting a reality check of their own workplace experiences.
Rate: $1.99
THE NONFICTION BOOK PUBLISHING PLAN: THE PROFESSIONAL GUIDE TO PROFITABLE SELF-PUBLISHING BY STEPHANIE CHANDLER AND KARL PALACHUK
Are you ready to turn your passion into a profitable business? The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan is loaded with proven strategies, real-world examples, and fascinating interviews with successful authors who started from scratch just like you. In this content-rich book, you will learn how to:
•Identify profit opportunities from and around your book
•Set up a legitimate and professional author-publisher business
•Write your manuscript faster than you thought possible
•Avoid mistakes new authors make and get your book published the right way
•Enlist beta readers, get endorsements from well-known authors, and generate book reviews
•Launch your book into the world with as much buzz as possible
As nonfiction authors, publishers, and internet entrepreneurs with over three decades of combined industry experience, we understand your unique goals and challenges. We also have the experience to show you how to produce your nonfiction book in the most professional way possible, while you turn your passion into a profitable business.
Whether you’re writing self-development, business, memoir, how-to, spiritual, narrative, or other nonfiction book, this authoritative guide by experienced industry professionals will provide you with the solutions you need to achieve your publishing goals.
Rate: $2.99
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO GHOSTWRITING: HONE YOUR SKILLS. GROW YOUR BUSINESS. CREATE THE LIFE YOU DESIRE. BY ALICE SULLIVAN AND ALEE ANDERSON
Are you ready to transform your passion for writing into a thriving business?
When Alee Anderson and Alice Sullivan first started ghostwriting, they had all the same fears you probably have:
Will I ever find clients?
Am I good enough to be a professional writer? Can I make enough money to support myself and then some?
After writing more than 100 books for CEOs, trauma survivors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders—and hitting the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists—Alee and Alice’s answers are yes, yes, and yes. Now, they’re sharing their stories and hard-earned lessons so you can do the same thing too.
The Definitive Guide to Ghostwriting isn’t theory. It’s a battle-tested blueprint from two seasoned professionals on how talented writers can finally get paid what they’re worth.
Inside, you’ll discover:
-How to set up your business the right way (legally and financially)
-Contract negotiation tactics to protect your interests
-The secrets to pricing for maximum profitability
-The art of interviewing to capture voice and build lasting relationships with high-paying clients
-Red flags to avoid and techniques to escape the most difficult client situations
-Transparent income breakdowns, real-world stories, and mindset shifts to transform your life and career
Whether you’re fresh out of college or plotting an escape from corporate life, Alee and Alice will teach you how to become your own boss and lead the creative life of your dreams.
No more undervaluing your talent. No more second-guessing yourself.
Rate: $0.99
Enter to Win Nonfiction Books
You can enter a free sweepstakes below to win a physical book (paperback or hardcover, for U.S.-based entrants only). Winners are selected at random and it’s 100% free to enter. Only one entry per book accepted. The participating author or publisher will receive the contact information for winners including mailing address and email address. It is their responsibility to mail books to the winners. Good luck!
THE GREATEST GAMBLING STORY EVER TOLD: A TRUE TALE OF THREE GAMBLERS, THE KENTUCKY DERBY, AND THE MEXICAN CARTEL BY MARK PAUL
An inspiring true crime sports story about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspired crowds of men and women alike… along with a trio of gamblers who embark on an epic adventure… It’s Seabiscuit meets Narcos, and the best non-fiction adventure and gambling story ever told.
DEAR GLUTEN, IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU: HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT GLUTEN AND RESTORE YOUR HEALTH FROM CELIAC DISEASE OR GLUTEN SENSITIVITY BY JENNY LEVINE FINKE
In Dear Gluten, It’s Not Me, It’s You, Jenny Levine Finke shows you how to take control of your diet, kick gluten to the curb, restore your health, and live a life free from annoying and painful symptoms.
GOOD COP, BLACK COP: GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT (A MEMOIR) BY CLAYTON MOORE
Active duty or retired, being a police officer is an identity. Law enforcement officers take an oath to serve and protect. This book is an extension of that mission. Good Cop, Black Cop is a moving and timely memoir that reveals how racism impacts people on both sides of the “thin blue line.”
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