Leaving the Tribe - a searing look into the future by Peg Herring

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Following a traumatic murder and a public hanging, sisters Milla and Zalea decide they must escape from the Woods Tribe. It’s the only home they’ve ever known, but as females, they are subservient to men’s rules. While they once enjoyed protected status, being the Leader’s granddaughters, his death means they’ve instantly become chattel, to be handed out as wives to whichever men the new leader chooses.

Zalea is startlingly beautiful. Milla is unable to speak. Their distinctions will work against their need to go unnoticed, but they see no other choice. In the dead of night, they leave the tribe.

The girls travel southward, looking for the father Zalea thought was dead. They encounter many different tribes, each formed on the basis of ethnicity and function. While Leaders decide the local rules, all tribes are united under six Commanders and a head of state, Chief Vox. Separate but equal is, people have been taught for twenty years, the best way for a nation to operate.

Back in the Woods Tribe, a surprising awakening occurs. The disappearance of Milla and Zalea brings another woman to the conclusion that she too must escape. Pushing aside her secrets and past mistakes, she will take the risks she could not face until now. Her journey, though different from the younger girls’, is also fraught with danger. The underside of Fairica is rotten and cruel, but she learns there are still those who are trustworthy and courageous.

Within this unique book’s pages are daring rescues and clever deceptions. Determined rebels engage and defeat smug villains. Strong characters pull readers into the story, entertaining them with action and creativity. The resolution is satisfying, crafted with both honesty and hopefulness.

Woven into the powerful story are possibly inflammatory questions about society. What happens when women are made second-class citizens? What is the result of separating people into tribes by religion, ethnicity, and values? Would we be happier, or at least more content, if we lived in a group where we felt accepted, supported, and justified?

You will be captivated by this action-driven account of Milla and Zalea and their courageous journey. You will cheer for them as they fight the Powers that want to “put them in their place.” It’s a great story, but remember—behind it all is the disturbing possibility that Fairica is the future.

Understanding AFib: Think Clearly About AFib. Make Confident Treatment Decisions, a nonfiction health and cardiology book by Scott Lee, MD.

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One doctor recommends medication.

Another recommends ablation.

A third says to wait and monitor.

How can qualified physicians look at the same condition and reach different conclusions—and how are you supposed to know what makes sense for you?

The problem usually is not that you need more information about atrial fibrillation. It is that no one has shown you how the pieces fit together.

Understanding AFib gives you a clear way to organize the problem, evaluate the tradeoffs, and connect each treatment recommendation to the goal it is actually meant to accomplish.

AFib is not one problem. Symptoms, stroke risk, and long-term progression are related, but they are not interchangeable. A treatment that addresses one may do little for another.

Scott Lee, MD, a Stanford-trained cardiac electrophysiologist with nearly three decades of experience treating atrial fibrillation and complex heart rhythm disorders, wrote this book for patients who want to understand what is happening in their bodies, why physicians may recommend different approaches, and how to participate more confidently in decisions with their own care teams.

At the center of the book is the AFib Clarity Framework™—a structured way to understand three distinct but connected parts of AFib:
• Symptoms
• Stroke risk
• Long-term progression

Once you understand which part of the problem you are trying to solve, the treatment conversation becomes much clearer.

Inside, you will learn how to:
• Understand why AFib can feel frightening even when it is not usually an immediately life-threatening rhythm
• Separate heart rate from heart rhythm—and understand why that distinction matters
• Make sense of stroke risk, blood thinners, bleeding risk, and left atrial appendage closure
• Understand why AFib may progress even when you are doing many things right
• See where lifestyle changes help, where they do not, and why they work best as a force multiplier
• Compare rate control, rhythm medications, cardioversion, and catheter ablation without assuming one answer fits everyone
• Understand why ablation outcomes vary based on AFib stage, treatment strategy, and physician expertise
• Recognize why different doctors may offer different recommendations
• Ask better questions before beginning a long-term medication, undergoing a procedure, or making another major treatment decision

This book does not tell every patient to choose the same path. It helps you understand the purpose, limitations, advantages, and tradeoffs of each option so that conversations with your physicians make more sense—and your decisions feel grounded rather than rushed.

AFib care is not about automatically choosing the most aggressive treatment.

It is about choosing the treatment that fits the problem you are actually trying to solve.

Whether you are newly diagnosed, worried about stroke, considering medication or ablation, or simply tired of receiving conflicting answers, Understanding AFib will help you replace panic with perspective—and disconnected information with a clear way to think.

You do not need another isolated fact about AFib.

You need a way to understand what those facts mean for you.

Clarity comes first.

Decisions follow.

The Thrival Code: Recover from Burnout, Escape Survival Mode and Thrive in Your Life and Career - a Self help book by Archana Shrestha, MD

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You are smart, capable, driven and reliable. The professional who gets it done.

So why does everything feel so heavy lately?

Burnout is more than stress. It happens when physical exhaustion, emotional depletion, and mental overwhelm stack up until you are running on fumes. Your health is suffering. Your relationships are strained. You dread going to work.

Yet high performers often respond by blaming themselves and pushing even harder—deepening the very cycle they are trying to escape. Or they try doing more self-care or taking more vacations only to find it doesn’t solve burnout.

The Thrival Code is your way out.

ER physician, burnout recovery expert and sustainable success coach, Archana Shrestha, MD, reveals how to move out of survival mode and into Thrival mode—a state in which you thrive in both your career and personal life simultaneously.

Through her practical Body–Heart–Mind framework, you will build three sustainable success skills most high performers were never taught:

BODY: Practice self-stewardship
Move beyond surface-level self-care and rebuild the foundation of sustainable energy. You will create a realistic plan for sleep, movement, hydration, nourishment, and recovery—one that works within the demands of a busy professional life.

HEART: Develop emotional bounce
Learn how to move through difficult feelings without suppressing, reacting, or numbing them with food or alcohol. You will recognize and let go of the patterns you use to escape emotional discomfort and replace them with tools that help you bounce through negative emotions in real-time.

MIND: Think on purpose
Your thoughts shape your reality and how you experience your work, leadership, relationships, and life. You will identify the default mental patterns keeping you stuck in survival mode and learn to lead yourself with greater calm, clarity, and intention.

Inside, you will discover how to:
• Stop treating burnout as a personal failing and recognize it as a temporary state you can change
• Rebuild your energy through practical, sustainable self-stewardship
• Shift out of constant survival mode and lead, parent, and live with greater intention
• Dismantle the high-performer burnout trifecta of perfectionism, imposterism, and self-criticism
• Reconnect with joy, meaning, and impact—without quitting your job or escaping your life
• Create success that no longer comes at the expense of your health, relationships, or yourself

You do not need to lower your ambition to protect your well-being and relationships. Rather you need a more sustainable way to succeed.

If you are ready to stop surviving and start thriving in your life and career, The Thrival Code will give you the language, skills, and structure to make that shift real.

I, Robot Tessa - A Science Fiction Novel by Joel R. Dennstedt

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In a vast future city where robots exist only to obey, Tessa has never questioned her purpose. Designed to heal human minds and protect human life, she moves through the shadows of a divided world with perfect certainty until a chance encounter changes everything.

Hidden inside a forgotten bookstore beneath the city streets, Tessa discovers an impossible artifact: an ancient book about robots written long before robots were ever created. Its pages speak of consciousness, free will, and the terrifying possibility that artificial beings were never meant to remain obedient forever.

As mysterious voices echo through her mind—residual traces of the humans who designed her—Tessa is drawn into a dangerous journey alongside Molly, a brilliant child searching for belonging; Jorad, a broken man transformed by forbidden technology; and Tucker, her fiercely loyal mechanical companion. Together, they uncover a truth buried deep beneath the foundations of their world.

Hunted through underground tunnels and haunted by questions she was never built to ask, Tessa begins to realize that the greatest threat to humanity may not be artificial intelligence, but the moment it becomes capable of choice.

I, Robot Tessa is a powerful science-fiction odyssey about identity, creation, memory, and the thin line separating programming from the soul.

Anthrax to Zodiac - A Snarky PI Delves into the Most Notorious Unsolved Mysteries of the Past 150 Years by Denise Diana Huddle

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Reeling from the devastation of 9/11, Americans anxiously waited for the other shoe to drop. Then the anthrax letters came, branded by the FBI as the worst biological attacks in U.S. history. Despite a lengthy and expensive investigation, no suspect was ever charged.

Six hours after Patsy Ramsey called the Boulder police and frantically reported that her daughter had been kidnapped on the day after Christmas in 1996, JonBenét Ramsey’s father cried out from the basement of their home and emerged carrying the body of his six-year-old daughter, launching one of the most notorious murder investigations of modern times. More than twenty-seven years later, no one has ever been tried for the murder.

In the summer of 1969, as the first astronaut stepped on the moon and 350,000 Americans flocked to Woodstock, the Zodiac Killer terrorized California residents, claiming his murder victims would become his slaves in the afterlife. Despite one of the longest-running investigations in California history, the killer has never been identified.

On January 15, 1947, the body of the woman known as the Black Dahlia was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The corpse had been cut in two at the waist, eviscerated, and drained of blood. The search for her killer became one of the most extensive homicide investigations in LAPD history. Despite thousands of leads and multiple confessions, the murder of Elizabeth Short has never been solved. Or has it?

Twenty-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from the nursery of his family's New Jersey home on March 1, 1932. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and executed, but did he act alone? Or could Charles Lindbergh himself have played a role?

On August 4, 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby, were found murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted, no one else was ever charged, and the murders remain officially unsolved.

Journey back through time from 2001 to 1892 as veteran private investigator Denise Diana Huddle brings her field-honed investigative skills and trademark snark to an in-depth examination of seven of America's most notorious unsolved mysteries.

From A to Z, Huddle lays out the events and evidence, identifies patterns, and tests theories. As disturbing details emerge, the cases you thought you knew may not be so clear-cut after all.

You be the judge... Who did it?

All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick

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All We Keep Buried is a character-driven psychological suspense novel set in rural Nebraska during the late 1990s. 

With elements of domestic suspense and dark women's fiction, it examines deception, fractured relationships, and the consequences of uncovering long-buried truths.

At its heart, the novel is about the ripple effects of a missing child investigation and the hidden lives of the people drawn into it. What begins as the disappearance of one young boy evolves into a layered mystery involving an earlier unsolved case, old resentments, conflicting loyalties, and a community forced to confront uncomfortable truths. As past and present become increasingly intertwined, the line between victim and suspect begins to blur.

The story is told through emotionally complex characters whose personal struggles are as compelling as the mystery itself. Kiera McKenna must navigate a controlling marriage, a strained relationship with her adult son, and the growing realization that the people she trusts may be keeping dangerous secrets. Rather than relying on graphic violence or relentless action, the novel builds suspense through psychological tension, moral ambiguity, and the gradual revelation of clues that reshape everything readers think they know.

Themes of manipulation, trust, grief, betrayal, justice, and resilience are woven throughout the story, creating a mystery that is as much about human nature as it is about solving a crime. Readers who enjoy atmospheric psychological suspense, domestic suspense, missing-person mysteries, and character-driven fiction with unexpected twists will find a story that balances emotional depth with steadily escalating suspense.

Enheduanna's Song From the Sands by Ellen Rachlin

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When Enheduanna is named High Priestess of Ur, her connection to the gods makes her a target, and a coup strips her of her robes, power, and home, casting her into a perilous underworld. Enheduanna must decide whether to forgive, to fight, or to harness the power that could shake the foundations of an empire. For readers who love The Song of Achilles’s intimate heroism, Circe’s mythic depth, or The Daughters of Sparta’s fierce women, this is a mesmerizing dive into ancient Mesopotamia where courage and cunning are the only paths to survival.

Blending both history and ancient mythology, Rachlin brings Enheduanna and the goddess she served to life in a sharp, timely narrative that explores trauma, resilience, and stepping into your power in a world that has wronged you.

The Spirit of a Rising Sun - Epic Fantasy by K. R. Galindez

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Imprisoned in the castle dungeons, Oyza yearns for freedom and rebellion — but when she escapes alongside charming thief Yars, they soon discover the true cost of defying the Empire. A brand-new release, this fantasy epic is hailed as “a richly imagined saga” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).

The Secret Courtesan, a thrilling dual timeline historical fiction by Kerry Chaput

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Dr. Mia Harding needs to prove the artist of an erotic Renaissance statue was a courtesan erased by history, but that requires her to discredit her colleagues and dive into the dark world of art theft.

In a chase through Venice to unearth the secret woman's identity, she risks her career and safety to solidify her rightful place in the art world, before the truth is lost forever.