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Koehler Books Köehler Books combines award-winning creative strength with national and global distribution through Ingram Books.

With traditional and Hybrid models, we serve experienced and debut authors.

09/04/2025

Introducing the cast of Koehler Books! It’s a full house over here for sure 🏡📖

1290. The Crusades near their end. A Templar knight, a wise rabbi, and unlikely allies embark on a perilous quest to pro...
09/03/2025

1290. The Crusades near their end. A Templar knight, a wise rabbi, and unlikely allies embark on a perilous quest to protect the secrets of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Danger, betrayal, and destiny await in THE RABBI’S KNIGHT—an epic historical adventure of faith, courage, and sacrifice. ⚜️⚔️

Available now! 📖

September is here, and so are new books! 📚Kickstart your cozy season with a world-building fantasy, a historical Crusade...
09/02/2025

September is here, and so are new books! 📚

Kickstart your cozy season with a world-building fantasy, a historical Crusades adventure, a not-so-radical new approach to health and wellness, and a little more saying “meh” 🤷🏽‍♀️.

Coming soon and available for preorder now!

Kathleen Hill leaves her small town for college dreams, but when she finally returns, she finds addiction has run rampan...
08/26/2025

Kathleen Hill leaves her small town for college dreams, but when she finally returns, she finds addiction has run rampant, and her family business is in trouble. JOURNEY BACK TO YOU is a heartfelt novel of heartbreak and second chances, where the past holds both pain and healing. Available NOW!

Nearly sixty-five years of marriage brings highs, lows, and lessons in true intimacy. In WOVEN AS ONE, William R. Waddel...
08/25/2025

Nearly sixty-five years of marriage brings highs, lows, and lessons in true intimacy. In WOVEN AS ONE, William R. Waddell shares the story of Bill and Linda’s enduring bond and the beauty of choosing each other every day. A moving reflection on love. Hitting bookshelves August 25.

This week’s features Benjamin Tan, author of SUIT YOURSELF. ✍🏼 What’s your writing schedule like?When I first started ...
08/21/2025

This week’s features Benjamin Tan, author of SUIT YOURSELF.

✍🏼 What’s your writing schedule like?
When I first started writing, I wasn’t yet a father, a grad student, or running a start-up—so I had more time. But as life filled up, I carved out 4–6 a.m. as sacred writing hours. Consistency mattered more than duration. Writing for an hour a day forced me to let ideas marinate and arrive sharper.

✍🏼 Where do you write?
Mostly at my desk, but I’ll write anywhere with solitude. When traveling, I’d seek out quiet corners to stay in rhythm. I need seclusion to write—it makes the process feel meditative. But I rarely wrote for more than 2–3 hours; beyond that, it started to feel isolating.

✍🏼 Any writing rituals?
Always meditative music. No phone. I’d go into “research rabbit holes” watching movie clips or interviews, especially when writing about Enneagram types through pop culture. Those moments—equal parts structured and spontaneous—often led to the most creative breakthroughs.

✍🏼 Beverage of choice?
Black coffee. No sugar, no milk. I’m a minimalist (Type 5 energy), and even powdered coffee works. It’s the ritual and the warmth more than the flavor.

✍🏼 Where do you find inspiration?
Everywhere: from memoirs like Wild and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to my clinical mental health training. Writing this book overlapped with major life changes—I became a father, launched a start-up, joined a nonprofit. These real-time transformations made the book more layered, reflective, and personal.

✍🏼 What’s your writing aura/vibe?
Minimal setup, layered mind. The vibe is quiet mornings, lots of coffee, and a head full of film scenes, personality theory, and half-written metaphors. I didn’t write SUIT YOURSELF to give answers—I wrote it to figure things out.

08/19/2025

Nico’s DITL as a Koehler Books baby

Sixteen-year-old Ethan Rivers carries two sets of DNA—his mother’s and his father’s. As his father’s darker traits start...
08/19/2025

Sixteen-year-old Ethan Rivers carries two sets of DNA—his mother’s and his father’s. As his father’s darker traits start to take over, Ethan fears he’s doomed to repeat mistakes he can’t control. SPLIT is a gripping YA thriller of identity and destiny.

Coming August 29!

Newly divorced and chief of obstetrics Farah Afshar’s carefully built life unravels when Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom mov...
08/13/2025

Newly divorced and chief of obstetrics Farah Afshar’s carefully built life unravels when Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement stirs long-buried memories and a devastating secret. From Manhattan to Tehran to wine country, HARVESTING ROSEWATER is a moving novel about identity, forgiveness, and the courage to confront the past before it destroys the future.

Get it on 8/15/25 and preorder today!

Check out our new releases for January!✨Slide 1: FictionBoys by Roger Newman A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon ✨...
01/31/2025

Check out our new releases for January!
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Slide 1: Fiction
Boys by Roger Newman
A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon
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Slide 2: Fiction
Spin Cycle: Notes From A Reluctant Caregiver by Alfredo Botello
Muddy the Water by Matt Barrows and Jessica Barrows Beebe
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Slide 3: Nonfiction
Portrait of a Presidency by R. Barbara Gitenstein
Sergeant at War: Letters Home from Vietnam by by Brett Gordon
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Slide 4: Nonfiction
Align, Feel, Heal: An Integrated Solution to Eliminating Chronic Pain at Its Roots by David Starbuck Smith .healing
The Bad Girls Club: Promises of a Spirituality-Based Recovery by Karen Marginot .marginot
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Slide 5: Nonfiction
The AI Lead by Brian W. Lambert, PhD
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Things are changing here at Koehler Books. After more than a dozen years, our beloved executive editor, Joe Coccaro, is ...
01/10/2025

Things are changing here at Koehler Books. After more than a dozen years, our beloved executive editor, Joe Coccaro, is retiring and stepping into a more leisurely role as editor at large. Joe has been at John Koehler’s side since the beginning. They built this house together, book by book, turning what started as a small regional company into a successful independent publisher that produces more than 125 books per year and reaches audiences around the globe.

None of us want him to go.

But there are creeks to paddle and back roads to bike, and Joe is ready to head off on new adventures. He’s a stickler, that Joe, and wields a red pen with all the panache of a musketeer. But more than that, he has been a steady guide and encourager to all of us here, as well as hundreds of authors through the years.

Joe’s been the most influential mentor of my career, and I am honored to be taking the editorial helm from him. You may wonder what will change with a new executive editor. Honestly, not a lot. We’ll continue our spirit of collaboration with the goal of publishing good books and giving a voice to quality authors.

So, it turns out, some things will never change.

Please join us in wishing Joe fair winds and following seas (both of which will come in handy when he’s steering his kayak through Chesapeake Bay).

Sincerely,

Becky Hilliker

Executive Editor

Check out our 2024 Booklovers' Gift Guide! Not sure what to get your cottagecore cousin whose backyard llama has its own...
12/17/2024

Check out our 2024 Booklovers' Gift Guide!
Not sure what to get your cottagecore cousin whose backyard llama has its own Instagram account? We've got a book for them!
What about your gamer friend who has warm and fuzzy feelings for a certain NPC but is also low-key sus about AI? Oh boy, do we have a book for them!

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