The Delphi Cafe
Finding Happiness
Will be published approx. on 6. October 2026
256 pages
E-Book
978-1-63763-386-1 (ISBN)
Description
In a world of uncertainty, The Delphi Cafe explores how chance encounters, hard questions, and human connection can reshape a life.
At a crossroads between career, family, and purpose, Socrates Smith finds himself searching for answers he can no longer ignore.
When uncertainty begins to unravel both his professional life and his sense of direction, he is forced to confront questions he has long avoided: What does it mean to provide for the people you love? When is it too late to change course? And how do you know which path is truly yours?
Set against the backdrop of everyday life?family dinners, quiet conversations, and unexpected encounters?The Delphi Café is a deeply reflective novel about the weight of responsibility and the quiet courage it takes to choose a different future.
As Socrates navigates job prospects, financial pressures, and the needs of those closest to him, a series of chance meetings and meaningful relationships begin to shift his perspective. Through moments of doubt, insight, and connection, he discovers that clarity rarely comes all at once but often emerges through the voices, wisdom, and presence of others.
Rich with emotional depth and grounded in the realities of modern life, The Delphi Café explores the tension between ambition and contentment, independence and commitment, certainty and faith.
For readers who enjoy thoughtful, character-driven fiction, this is a story about family, purpose, and the conversations that have the power to change everything.
At a crossroads between career, family, and purpose, Socrates Smith finds himself searching for answers he can no longer ignore.
When uncertainty begins to unravel both his professional life and his sense of direction, he is forced to confront questions he has long avoided: What does it mean to provide for the people you love? When is it too late to change course? And how do you know which path is truly yours?
Set against the backdrop of everyday life?family dinners, quiet conversations, and unexpected encounters?The Delphi Café is a deeply reflective novel about the weight of responsibility and the quiet courage it takes to choose a different future.
As Socrates navigates job prospects, financial pressures, and the needs of those closest to him, a series of chance meetings and meaningful relationships begin to shift his perspective. Through moments of doubt, insight, and connection, he discovers that clarity rarely comes all at once but often emerges through the voices, wisdom, and presence of others.
Rich with emotional depth and grounded in the realities of modern life, The Delphi Café explores the tension between ambition and contentment, independence and commitment, certainty and faith.
For readers who enjoy thoughtful, character-driven fiction, this is a story about family, purpose, and the conversations that have the power to change everything.
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Bob Rich first learned the art of storytelling around campfires at summer camps in northern Ontario, Canada. Growing up, reading Hemingway inspired him to write. Living on the shores of Lake Erie and the Florida Keys provide him with an abundance of his own tales to tell. He is the author of four books: Catching Big Fish, The Right Angle, Why We Fish, and Looking Through Water, the latter having been made into a film. He is the coauthor of Secrets from the Delphi Café.
Scott Friedman is a partner at Lippes Mathias LLP, where he served for thirty years as managing partner and later as chairman, and now advises start-ups, venture capital firms, and family businesses in the US and internationally. He is also the co-founder and managing director of Varia Ventures and a co-founder and general partner of Impact Capital of New York, supporting innovative and early-stage companies. The author of seven books and more than one hundred articles, he is a frequent national speaker on entrepreneurship, innovation, and family enterprise.
Mike Pehanich is the former editor of the Redbone Journal, industry consultant, speaker and frequent contributor to outdoor radio and television. His features and perspectives on fishing, the tackle industry, and conservation and fisheries management have appeared in more than thirty outdoor publications including In-Fisherman, Outdoor Life, Bassmaster, Bass Times, Game & Fish, Fishing Tackle Retailer, Great Lakes Angler and MLF's Bass Fishing magazine. He is the author of the recently released River at Risk: A Fisherman's View of Life Anew in Post-Soviet Russia, a sportsman's journey through a little-known Russia with detours through its near and distant past.
Scott Friedman is a partner at Lippes Mathias LLP, where he served for thirty years as managing partner and later as chairman, and now advises start-ups, venture capital firms, and family businesses in the US and internationally. He is also the co-founder and managing director of Varia Ventures and a co-founder and general partner of Impact Capital of New York, supporting innovative and early-stage companies. The author of seven books and more than one hundred articles, he is a frequent national speaker on entrepreneurship, innovation, and family enterprise.
Mike Pehanich is the former editor of the Redbone Journal, industry consultant, speaker and frequent contributor to outdoor radio and television. His features and perspectives on fishing, the tackle industry, and conservation and fisheries management have appeared in more than thirty outdoor publications including In-Fisherman, Outdoor Life, Bassmaster, Bass Times, Game & Fish, Fishing Tackle Retailer, Great Lakes Angler and MLF's Bass Fishing magazine. He is the author of the recently released River at Risk: A Fisherman's View of Life Anew in Post-Soviet Russia, a sportsman's journey through a little-known Russia with detours through its near and distant past.
