Dissolving Overthinking: Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Mind and Find Inner Freedom, Second Edition by Alex Ostergaard

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What if overthinking isn’t your problem? What if it’s your mind’s way of trying to protect you?

Many people spend years trying to silence their thoughts, think more positively, or become more confident, only to find themselves trapped in the same patterns of overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, self-doubt, and emotional exhaustion. Dissolving Overthinking offers a different perspective.

Rather than treating the mind as something that needs to be controlled or fixed, this book explores why overthinking develops in the first place and how lasting change comes from understanding yourself more deeply. By learning to work with your mind instead of against it, you’ll discover a calmer, more compassionate way of relating to yourself and the world around you.

Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, somatic practices and real coaching conversations, Alex Østergaard combines practical tools with personal stories to help you move beyond constant mental noise and reconnect with your inner sense of clarity.

Inside, you’ll discover how to:
• Understand the hidden purpose behind overthinking and anxious thoughts
• Break free from people-pleasing, perfectionism, and the fear of being judged
• Build genuine self-worth that isn’t dependent on achievement or external validation
• Develop emotional resilience by learning how to feel difficult emotions instead of avoiding them
• Make decisions with greater confidence and trust yourself again
• Create inner peace without sacrificing your ambition or desire to grow

Whether you’re a sensitive high achiever, a professional navigating chronic stress, or simply someone who feels stuck in an endless cycle of analysis, worry, and self-criticism, this book offers a practical path toward greater freedom.

Dissolving Overthinking isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about understanding the patterns that have been running your life, meeting them with compassion instead of resistance, and discovering the calm, confidence, and authenticity that have been there all along.

Unbroken Strife: Outer Frontier by Nevyn McNamara

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A Superhuman Soldier. A Galaxy on the Brink. And a War No One Can Stop.

Unbroken Strife: Outer Frontier launches a bold new space opera series where political fracture, cosmic dread, and morally charged action collide across the stars.

Alejandro Hernandez, callsign Phrixus, is a former soldier turned mercenary with psionic abilities and no shortage of enemies. In a galaxy still raw from Earth's destruction, he navigates bounty jobs, alien politics, and the kind of moral weight that doesn't wash off. When a catastrophic experiment unleashes something that shouldn't exist, and a galactic civil war begins splitting alliances down to the family level, Phrixus finds himself at the center of a conflict far larger than any contract he ever signed.

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.

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?

SOLVING the CLOUD thinking game by Lori Higham

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SOLVING the CLOUD thinking game is a business fable about cloud governance, enterprise architecture, technology leadership, and the hidden forces that create organizational complexity.

Through the alternating perspectives of a CTO and CISO, the story follows two experienced technology leaders who are both trying to solve the same enterprise problems—but from entirely different viewpoints. Engineering is focused on innovation and delivery. Security is focused on risk and governance. Finance wants predictable cloud costs. Compliance demands consistency. Every team believes it is making the right decisions, yet the organization becomes more fragmented, more expensive, and more difficult to understand with every new initiative.

Unlike traditional books about cloud computing, cloud security, enterprise architecture, or digital transformation, this story explores the human side of technology leadership. It examines how cloud complexity emerges naturally whenever talented people optimize their own part of the system without a shared understanding of the whole. As platforms multiply, exceptions accumulate, and organizational silos deepen, leaders discover that governance alone cannot solve the problem. The challenge is not simply better process—it is developing a common perspective that allows Engineering, Security, Finance, Compliance, and executive leadership to make better decisions together.

Written as a short business novel, SOLVING the CLOUD thinking game combines executive realism, organizational psychology, systems thinking, and understated humor with practical insights drawn from real enterprise experience. Readers who have participated in architecture reviews, cloud migrations, security meetings, FinOps discussions, audit reviews, or digital transformation initiatives will recognize many of the conversations and situations portrayed throughout the story.

Whether you are a CTO, CIO, CISO, enterprise architect, cloud engineer, technology executive, IT leader, governance professional, security architect, FinOps practitioner, consultant, or business leader navigating cloud transformation, this book offers a fresh way to understand why intelligent organizations often create unnecessary complexity—and how shared visibility, common architecture, and aligned decision-making can produce faster delivery, lower costs, stronger security, and more resilient enterprises.

Times of Clouds and Sun - a gripping family saga by Michael Dane Hager

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Dr. Maya Simmons, a recent PhD graduate in Epidemiology, is still mourning the death of her father. While going through his personal papers, she discovers a dark secret from her parents’ past. Her quest for the truth leads her to a Tibetan refugee camp in India, where her “mother,” Maggie Hunter, is hiding out from Interpol for her suspected role in a bombing incident during the Vietnam War.

Compelled to track down her estranged mother, Maya disguises her true identity and secures a volunteer position at the refugee camp. With the help of a Tibetan lama, Maya confronts her long-suppressed feelings of abandonment and her fear of accepting Maggie into her life. Ironically, just as they begin their journey of reconciliation, Maya finds herself at the center of solving a deadly epidemic threatening both the refugees and her own mother’s life.

Selenian - Romantasy by A.C. Rainbolt

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Iris' life had its ups and downs, and now it seemed like there were more downs than ups. With a divorce in the rearview mirror and the loss of her job, she has no choice but to move back home with her mother, having no idea how much her life is about to change. She revisits an old hobby, which leads to a new career that takes her across the country. Unwilling to feel the spark of love again, she soon discovers that Remi has other ideas. Before long, she becomes entangled in a world she never knew existed.

The Alien Jungle Warlord's Bride - an alien romance by A.V. Wilcott

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Combat nurse and engineer Elena Parks survived the fall of New Terra. She crossed through space with nineteen other women and a single plan—build a colony where humanity could begin again. Then their shuttle goes down on Xytheos, a world ruled by genetically engineered warriors, and an ancient AI called the Concord Stone names the survivors Starfallen Brides. For the first time in a thousand years, the Stone summons the planet's twenty most powerful rulers to claim a mate. Elena is matched to Rythar, Warlord of the Green Reach, a male who commands the jungle itself and has never been beaten.

Rythar expected obedience. He gets a brilliant, stubborn woman who rejects the bond between them and refuses to be claimed. He could take her by force. Her defiance makes him choose something no ruler of the Green Reach has offered anyone else: patience. He will guard her and prove himself worth wanting, until she sees him as more than her captor. But Elena and Rythar are not alone on Xytheos. A rival wants them both dead, and the arrival of the human women has woken something far older than the warlords beneath the planet's fragile peace.

The harder Elena fights the pull between them, the clearer the danger becomes. The Starfallen Brides are bound to one another, and to powers that would rather see them silenced than understood. As the planet closes in around the women who fell from the stars, Elena has to decide how much she will risk for her friends, and Rythar has to decide what he is willing to burn to keep her. Because some bonds are worth burning worlds to protect.

Hey Diddle Diddle, the Runaway Riddle: A Retired Sleuth and Dog Historical Cozy Mystery by P.C. James

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Now retired, Inspector Ramsay, of Miss Riddell Cozy Mysteries fame, has adopted a dog, Bracken, and taken to hiking the highest peaks of his native lands, Scotland and England. 

In the English Lake District, he and Bracken aid a young woman to escape her pursuers. She's been held captive for days before escaping. Ramsay is puzzled by this because he's heard on the radio, and read in the local papers, only that she'd run away from home. Had the kidnappers not demanded a ransom? Or were her parents and the police keeping that quiet, hoping for someone to give them a lead on where she was being held? This last didn't sit right with Ramsay, but nor did the idea that the kidnappers hadn't asked for a ransom. Ramsay begins to investigate, only to have the young woman run away from him. What's going on here in the quiet English countryside?