Friday, August 21, 2026

AI for Teachers: A Beginner's Guide: A Digital Dexterity Guidebook

   School Supplies on Desk


AI for Teachers:

A Beginner's Guide:

A Digital Dexterity Guidebook


AI for Teachers: A Beginner’s Guide is the first in a series of practical, approachable guides designed to help educators confidently use artificial intelligence without requiring technical expertise or prior AI experience. Built around practical, classroom-ready strategies, the book shows teachers how to use AI to save time, simplify lesson planning, create assessments and rubrics, differentiate instruction, improve student engagement, strengthen communication with families and colleagues, streamline everyday responsibilities, and support professional growth. Rather than overwhelming educators with technical explanations, it focuses on real-world applications, step-by-step guidance, and ready-to-use prompts teachers can immediately adapt to their own classrooms.

At its heart, this book is about helping educators work smarter without losing the human connection that makes great teaching possible. The book addresses responsible and ethical AI use—including student privacy, accuracy, bias, academic integrity, and the importance of knowing when not to use AI—while consistently reinforcing that technology should support teachers, never replace them. Ideal for homeschoolers, classroom teachers, new educators, veteran teachers exploring AI for the first time, instructional coaches, professional development programs, and schools beginning their AI journey, this book gives educators something increasingly valuable: practical tools to reduce repetitive work, reclaim their time, and spend more of it doing what matters most—teaching, connecting with, and inspiring students






Thursday, August 20, 2026

The Third Estate: Devil's Tango (The Third Estate Series Book 2)

  Man and Woman walking towards a Mine


The Third Estate: Devil's Tango

(The Third Estate Series Book 2)


When Sophie Allard is accused of murder, her only chance of surviving is to trust the last man on earth she should. Trying to bury her past and build a future, medical student and military officer Sophie Allard lives by precision, discipline, and instinct—until a dying gunshot victim whispers a message in her ear meant for someone else. By sunrise, she is suspended, framed for murder, and hunted by people who don't leave witnesses. Evidence vanishes. Someone is tying off loose ends—and Sophie just became one of them. Three years off the grid hasn't erased Kai Lovac’s name from the kill lists. Cold, disciplined, and lethal, he knows exactly what happens to people who uncover the wrong secret. His friend died protecting Dossier 1627—a file powerful enough to expose the Third Estate, a covert syndicate that kills to remain invisible. Lovac once worked in their shadows. Now they want him erased. Driven together by a shared threat and a past neither can escape, Sophie and Lovac are pulled into a labyrinth where assassins close in, hidden labs bury the truth, and betrayal waits at every turn. Each clue pulls them deeper. Alliances fracture without warning. Every step demands perfect timing. A single misstep carries a body count. And when the music stops, one wrong move will end everything. Relentless, cinematic, and razor-sharp, Devil's Tango is a high-stakes thriller of precision, power, and survival—where every turn is calculated, every secret is lethal, and trusting the wrong person can be your last mistake.


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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Redemption

  Jet Fighter in Sunset Setting


Redemption


When the sky becomes your enemy, where do you find redemption?

Harry was the Air Force's golden boy—a top-gun fighter pilot who lived for the rush of aerial combat. But during a brutal dogfight against seven Iranian Su-27 fighters, something goes terribly wrong. A mysterious blackout sends his F-15 Eagle into a death spiral, and though he survives, his flying career is over.

Eighteen months of medical evaluations. A forced discharge. The brotherhood he lived for, gone.

Drowning his demons in alcohol, Harry spirals toward rock bottom until unlikely allies pull him into restoring a classic 1963 Mustang—and then into the world of private investigation.

As he begins solving cases that challenge both his mind and his courage, Harry discovers skills he never knew he possessed.

But the past isn't finished with him.


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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Make Peace With Life

   Woman holding Make Peace With Life Book Above her head

What Will Make Peace With Life Do For You?

What if the life you've been searching for isn't waiting somewhere in the future? What if happiness isn't hidden behind a bigger paycheck, a perfect relationship, or some magical moment when everything finally falls into place? In Making Peace With Life, Dr. Rob Alex invites you to step off the endless treadmill of "someday" and discover something far more powerful—the ability to find meaning, purpose, and peace right where you are. Through humor, honesty, personal insight, and metaphysical wisdom, this book helps you see that life isn't something to conquer or perfect. It's something to experience, learn from, and ultimately embrace.

Inside these pages, you'll explore the lessons hidden within life's greatest challenges and its most beautiful moments. You'll discover why there is no finish line to chase, why comparison steals joy, how energy connects us all, and why asking better questions may be more important than finding perfect answers. Whether you're navigating change, searching for direction, recovering from setbacks, or simply trying to understand your place in the world, this book offers a refreshing perspective that reminds you your life already has incredible value. It's not about becoming someone else—it's about understanding the incredible person you already are.

Most self-help books promise to give you answers. Making Peace With Life offers something even more valuable: permission. Permission to breathe when life feels overwhelming. Permission to grow without demanding perfection from yourself. Permission to appreciate your journey without comparing it to everyone else's. And most importantly, permission to make peace with life exactly as it is while still creating the future you desire. If you're ready to stop racing, stop chasing, and start truly living, then this book may be exactly what you've been looking for.






Monday, August 17, 2026

Vanished Roads

  Thick tree in middle of road




Vanished Roads is a collection of 104 contemporary haiku by Thomas L. Vaultonburg, illustrated by artist TrĂ©, that explores memory, loss, place, aging, solitude, and the possibility of renewal. Rooted in the landscapes and changing seasons of the American Midwest, the book approaches haiku through what Vaultonburg calls Prairie Zen: an informal, distinctly Midwestern way of paying attention to the ordinary world and discovering that the ordinary is rarely ordinary when we actually stop to look at it. These poems travel through back roads, rivers, fields, birds, snow, abandoned places, moonlight, childhood memories, and the small encounters that accumulate into a life. Rather than treating nature as scenery separate from human experience, Vanished Roads finds the two continually crossing. Grief appears in weather. Memory inhabits roads and houses. Birds become momentary companions. Seasons remind us that disappearance and renewal are not opposites but parts of the same process. The book moves through an emotional arc from grief and disorientation toward acceptance, attentiveness, and renewed engagement with the world. Its central idea is not that we can recover what has disappeared. Some roads really do vanish. People die. Places change. Childhood ends. Bodies age. The past cannot be reconstructed simply because we miss it. Instead, the poems ask what becomes visible when we stop trying to find our way back and begin paying attention to where we actually are. Artist TrĂ©’s eight original illustrations are an essential part of that journey. They are not merely decorative additions to the poems. His images create another visual language running alongside the haiku, giving the book the feeling of a small collaborative art object as much as a conventional poetry collection. The spare relationship between poem, illustration, and open space allows the reader to slow down rather than race through the book. That spaciousness is deliberate. Vanished Roads is designed around the traditional brevity of haiku, generally presenting a single poem on a page and allowing each moment room to exist on its own. The poems are accessible without requiring previous knowledge of haiku, Zen, or contemporary poetry. They can be read individually in seconds, but the cumulative experience of the collection reveals a larger meditation on impermanence, resilience, and attention.








Saturday, August 15, 2026

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook

  Book Title on Black book Cover


Claude isn't a chatbot anymore. Stop prompting — start delegating.

Most people type a question into Claude and copy the answer. That's using a fraction of it. Claude is now a stack for thinking, creating, remembering, connecting, delegating, automating, and orchestrating real business work — and this is the playbook for running it like an operator, not a tourist.

Claude AI for Business: The 10X Playbook takes you from your first good answer to a governed, automated Claude Business OS — beginner to builder, everyone levels up. Written by a founder who runs an agentic AI workforce in production, it's a complete implementation system, not a prompt dump.

You'll master the whole stack:

  • Projects, Memory & Context Engineering — give Claude your company's brain so it stops starting from zero.
  • Artifacts & finished deliverables — real spreadsheets, decks, docs, dashboards, and mini-apps.
  • Skills, Connectors & MCP — teach Claude your procedures and safely connect your tools with least-privilege permissions.
  • Cowork — delegate a complete job, schedule recurring work, and run reliable multi-agent workflows behind a human approval gate.
  • Claude Code — for operators and founders, not just developers: build tools, automate operations, work in parallel.
  • Department playbooks for executive, marketing, sales, customer success, operations, finance, product, and engineering.
  • Safety & governance — prompt-injection defense, permissions, evidence, and an ROI scorecard to prove it worked.

Signature frameworks — the Capability Ladder, the BRIEF delegation method, the Governed Business-Agent Pattern, and Proof-Before-Scale — give you a memorable path, plus a living companion vault of workbooks, 101 Power Moves, 50 BRIEFs, and an exhaustive, proven Skill library.

By the last page you'll have built a personal AI chief of staff, at least three recurring Cowork workflows, a governed connector stack, a live dashboard, and a 30-day rollout your whole team can run.

Stop prompting. Start delegating.

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Friday, August 14, 2026

THE WHISPER IN THE JAR

    Cracked Jar with Light Coming from the Crack


 

Prophecy always demands a witness. She was seventeen when she learned that the gods do not send visions to help. What she saw, she could not unsee. What she warned against, she only hastened. And what she became, no one had a name for. Across the burning cities of the ancient Mediterranean, she walked. She lived among scholars who feared her, slaves who hid her, senators who used her. She loved quietly. She lost everyone. She kept writing letters to a girl who could no longer read them. And when she could bear no more witnessing, she sealed herself inside a clay jar and waited for the world to forget her. The world forgot. Until someone came looking. A literary historical novella in the tradition of Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. For readers who love quiet, philosophical fiction set in the long shadow of the ancient world.