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Everyone has been there; sat in the theater, enjoying a performance when, "ring, ring" – that ignorant guy in the next row picks up and answers a text. It's a relatively new phenomenon, but one many feel is ruining the quality of life for millions. Judy Cunniff is one of society's cellphone skeptics and, in her new book, attempts to remind the world that they really are just pieces of plastic.

Many people cite Billie Jean King's landmark 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs in the famed 'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match in Houston, Texas, as the moment when women began making a significant impact on professional sports. However, nearly 100 years earlier, a small group of female athletes traveled America, taking on and defeating men, and making a handsome living as professional athletes. Until recently, the stories of those athletic pioneers have been all but forgotten.

Yes it sounds crazy, yes it bucks the trend of traditional dieting advice, but one California filmmaker has cracked the code to losing weight and saving money without having to give up the comfort foods that make mealtimes taste great. Barb Doyon has thrown the rule book out of the window and created something ground-breaking.

Since releasing volume one of his celebrated 'LifeMeds™, Breakfast & Orange Juice' self-help series, SunKing Sanders has helped thousands of readers dig to the core of who they really are and transform their lives in ways they couldn't imagine. Sanders' philosophy is simple – buck the trend of the typical book of inspiration by replacing long preachy passages with short, succinct and powerful nuggets of wisdom that can be consumed on demand.

It was 1969, U.S. Marine Michael McCormick was returning from Vietnam to an America he thought would see him as a hero. While he did receive a Purple Heart and Silver Star for his service, society blatantly rejected him. McCormick quickly became aware that it wasn't just him, that millions of other young men would be treated as misfits when trying to pick back up the life they had been torn from.

Beasts; everybody fears them, and everybody prays they won't encounter them. However, for four campers in Jason Williams' award-winning new novella, their prayers are ignored with gusto.

While the first six years of Al Globus' life allowed him to be just like any other kid, he was suddenly ripped away from his father as he died from Tuberculosis, and forced to live with his despairing and irritable mother. Wracked with despair and hopelessness, Globus entered a brutal spiral of depression and would spend the next six years in intense therapy.

It's a sad reality that ruins the dreams for millions of adults; a culture where imagination is deemed futile and big-picture thinking is branded fantasy. Having spent years studying under the philosophy of Bob Proctor guiding thousands of clients through their personal development, Fran Banting has a bold message – that imagination is the only away to attract life's dreams, and seeing life as a movie is the perfect way to call "action".

Millions face the same predicament; witnessing something go wrong in their life and feeling helpless that nobody is there to guide them. Having spent his entire life as a committed Christian, Anthony K. Russell Jr. has some bold words of wisdom – God exists and, due to this, he has everything under control.

While fantasy has long been a staple of the literary landscape, both readers and critics are currently crying out for wholly-unique new narratives that don't succumb to recycling of the same-old concepts. Thankfully, KT Webb has stepped up to the plate with gusto, throwing the rule book out of the window with a thought provoking and intricate novel that fuses modern struggles with age-old legend.