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Her waters break somewhere off Slyne Head, twenty hours from home, with an Algerian galley in the wake and closing. She sends the man who found her back up on deck, bars the cabin door, and delivers her fourth child alone on a straw mattress while the ship is rammed broadside and boarded. She cuts […]

Death is inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any easier to navigate; this book helps readers travel the tricky and painful waters. Moriah Melín W., a Birth and Death Midwife, is no stranger to the process of death and grieving. With both professional and personal experiences of losing people, she knows the challenges inside and […]

A lifetime of memories restored through poetry dripping with nostalgia Gathering Memories, Collecting Dust is exactly that: a gathering of memories that otherwise would be collecting dust. It’s a collection granting us vignette-like glimpses into life’s little moments and reflections. “We promise to take good care of your baggage. Please retrieve your memories at your […]

A provocative dystopian novel about artificial intelligence, human oversight, and the dangerous pursuit of perfect solutions Carbon Zero explores a possible future where humanity embraces artificial intelligence with little regard for ethical boundaries, meaningful oversight, or long-term consequences. It asks uncomfortable questions: What happens when technology becomes so efficient that society begins to worship it? […]

A heroine’s inspirational journey to find the intersection of psychological and medical care—and to find out who she is outside of who she’s always been In the early days of 1978, Judy DePue vaulted into her solo trek around the globe. A PhD recipient in counseling psychology, she’d begun her career in research at Harvard, […]

The woman next door is in her fifties, teaches art at an elementary school, and has just become a mother. She has prepared the downstairs bedroom carefully: a changing station stocked with cloth diapers, a rolling cart of medical supplies, a wheelchair beside the door, and a canopy bed fitted with guardrails so the newborn […]

The Weight of Snow by Sal Nudo I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: The past doesn’t wash away. It just freezes over. For fourteen years, Alex Neitzel has lived a life built on a foundation of silence and blood money. To the residents of […]