Sunday, August 30, 2026

Seabrook Harbor : A Fake Engagement Romance

  A Man and Woman looking longingly at each other on a boat dock



I ran away from my wedding… 

then accidentally agreed to fake an engagement with my grumpy CEO.

Running from the worst day of my life was supposed to be the reckless part. 

Then I started my dream job as Ashford Maritime's new internal auditor and found myself working shoulder to shoulder with my impossibly serious boss, Caleb Ashford.

The fake engagement is meant to solve one problem. 

Instead, it creates a hundred more.

The more time we spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore the man beneath the tailored suits and impossible standards. The way he quietly protects me. The way he believes in me when no one else does. 

Somewhere between late nights chasing missing millions and pretending to be in love, I stop pretending.

Then the evidence points straight at me.

Now I'm wearing handcuffs instead of an engagement ring, and the only man I trust has to choose between saving the company he's spent his life building... or believing the woman who's stolen his heart.

Because if Caleb can't prove I'm innocent, losing my job will be the least of my problems.





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Saturday, August 29, 2026

WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

  Art sculptures with many faces on it.


WHAT IS A HUMAN-BEING

The work investigates the whatness of a human being. Essential features are viewed from interrelated points of neuroscience, philosophy, biophysiology, quantum mechanics, psychology, communication and computation.

One chapter is dedicated to the topology of brain and another one to consciousness. Theories of aging are discussed.

Psychological profile of a human- being is addressed including the phenomenon of the self. An important subject of this article is the body internal communication. The attention is paid to the transcendentals named metasymbols of life.

The term "mindware" is proposed for labelling human operating system responsible for harmony and coherence of human being's behaviour. Reflections on the passing of life are mentioned at the end. This paper reviews many sources and could be assumed as an attempt to mark known, nearly known or sometimes unnameable answers to never-ending question.



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Friday, August 28, 2026

The Memory of Salt: Stories

 Boats on the Water in A Watercolor painting


The Memory of Salt: Stories


In many villages along the coast, the things the sea brings back to shore are not kept. But now and then the net weighs more than it should, and someone has to decide whether to open the chest or leave it closed.


A fisherman finds a chest that has been waiting for two centuries. A widow goes out night after night on a sea that has already taken her husband. A whole village keeps vigil on the beach for a boat that does not return. A man who never cries finds seven jars of salt lined up in his kitchen, each labelled in pencil. And five brothers haul up in their nets something that has come from much further away than they know.


Thirteen stories set between the Cilento coast and Mazara del Vallo, in southern Italy, where the sea is not a graveyard but an archive, and salt is its way of preserving: the names no longer spoken at table, the debts kept silent, the people one had stopped looking at.


A collection that travels the Italian South, from the salt pans of Trapani to the beach of

Mondello, from the piers of the Cilento to the fishing boats of Mazara, in a spare, oral prose made of silences, dialect and gestures. Stories of those who stay and those who leave, of fathers and sons, of what the sea keeps and what, sometimes, it gives back.







Thursday, August 27, 2026

Weight Loss You'll Love: Lose Weight Doing What You Love

   Young Lady in Scubs Smiling


Weight Loss You'll Love:

Lose Weight Doing What You Love


Weight Loss You’ll Love is not really a diet book, it’s the story of a woman who spent 20 years trying to lose weight through restriction, gyms, trainers, calorie counting, and sheer discipline, only to regain it again and again. Eventually, she discovered a radically simple idea: the healthiest life is the one you actually enjoy living.

Instead of forcing herself through workouts she hated, she began walking just 20 minutes a day, hiking and biking for pleasure, eating delicious lower-calorie foods she genuinely loved, and redesigning her environment so healthy choices became automatic. Her breakthrough was realizing that habits provide the structure, but joy provides the fuel.

Six months later, she had lost 40 pounds—not by suffering more, but by finally building a life she didn't want to escape from.

At its heart, the book offers a refreshing philosophy:

Stop asking, “What can I force myself to do to lose weight?”
Start asking, “What could I happily keep doing for the rest of my life?”

Because lasting change isn't about surviving a punishment. As the book puts it, every pound lost is a promise you kept to yourself.

ABOUT WEINA SCOTT (the Author):

Weina Scott is a Harvard Computer Science graduate and entrepreneur with experience building and scaling technology companies. She has founded several profitable businesses, including two that were acquired by large public companies. One was a venture-backed company that raised more than $100 million from leading investors, and another was a podcasting company she started at age 16. Earlier in her career, Weina worked as a computer scientist for Fortune 100 companies. She graduated from Harvard in 2011 and now lives in Miami, Florida.








Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Inside Out, Outside In: The Sacred Journey Back to Self

  Powerful Woman with Light coming out of her


Inside Out, Outside In:

The Sacred Journey Back to Self


Reclaim Your Inner Truth. Awaken the Healer Within.

Inside Out, Outside In is a powerful and reflective guide for women ready to release emotional conditioning, inherited beliefs, and the silent patterns that have shaped their identity.

Through deeply personal insight and grounded awareness, Dr. LaToya Takeshia Michole invites you into a sacred journey inward, where healing is not about becoming someone new, but remembering who you have always been.

Inside, you will explore:

  • How silence, protection, and early adaptation shape your voice
  • The connection between your body, emotions, and unexpressed truth
  • The difference between fear and inner knowing
  • Reclaiming self-trust, clarity, and emotional alignment

This is not a path of becoming.
It is a return.

If you are ready to reconnect with yourself, trust your inner voice, and live in alignment from the inside out, this book will guide you home.







Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Tides Of Us

 Camera in Rose Petals


Tides Of Us - Romance / Multiracial /Spicy /Detailed Explicit But Tasteful  When Shanae Bennett, a pastry chef, escapes her toxic engagement and manipulative ex and moves to a beach house she inherited, the last thing she's looking for is love. But her gorgeous, semi-retired commercial photographer neighbor Liam Cole has other plans. He's spent three years healing from a devastating divorce. She's rebuilding herself from the ground up. Neither is looking for forever, until forever walks in next door. Morning coffee. Sunset walks. A storm that changes everything. Just when they've found home in each other, his career pulls him away, and their fragile new love faces its biggest test. Can they weather the distance? Or will fear and doubt wash away what they've built? A swoony, emotional beach romance about second chances, healing hearts, and finding home in the most unexpected place - each other. Spicy / Detailed Explicit Sexual Content But Tasteful  Trigger/Content Warnings: References to emotional abuse (past relationship) Panic attacks (handled sensitively) Emotional depth



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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Guardian Angel: We Don't Die Book Two

 Dark Angel holing a Infant



Guardian Angel: We Don't Die Book Two


Detective Dallas Scott was a cocky, selfish womanizer until a car accident lands him in a coma. Stuck between life and death, Scott makes a deal with Lucifer: let him live so he can catch the hitman who killed his partner, and when it’s checkout time, Lucifer can collect his soul. What Scott didn’t count on was that when he wakes up from the coma, he can now see souls. And there are plenty of them, including another detective who was killed in the line of duty under mysterious circumstances, and the soul of a girl who is determined to help Scott find the killer.

But with crooked cops, an evil soul bent on revenge, and his wife teetering on the brink of depression, Scott has his work cut out for him . . . if he can stay alive and out of the hands of the devil.







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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 Tré, 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 Tré’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.


Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Modern High-Protein Mediterranean Cookbook

  Chef looking out over the sea


The Modern High-Protein Mediterranean Cookbook:

100+ Chef-Quality, Low-GI Diet Recipes, GLP-1 Weight Loss & Food Noise Support: Vibrant Whole Food Flavors ... Countries (George Nader's Lean Kitchen)

REIMAGINE THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET WITH CHEF-QUALITY FLAVORS, HIGH PROTEIN, AND ZERO SUGAR CRASHES Are you tired of restrictive, boring diets that leave you constantly hungry, fatigued, or stuck eating plain grilled chicken? Do you want to enjoy the world's healthiest way of eating, but struggle to hit your daily protein targets? This is not another generic recipe book. Crafted by a professional executive chef, this healthy eating cookbook combines the sun-drenched, vibrant flavors of 8 countries with modern, protein-boosted nutrition to keep you energized, satisfied, and lean. Why this is the ultimate modern mediterranean diet recipes book for your UK kitchen: Delicious, Filling Meals: Discover authentic dishes modernized with smart protein-boosted twists (using Greek yogurt, egg whites, and ricotta) to build strength and silence hunger without losing traditional flavors. An Authentic, Non-Processed Food Cookbook: Ditch industrial powders and pre-packaged shortcuts. Every recipe in this low gi cookbook uk alternative is crafted from 100% natural, whole food ingredients. GLP-1 Weight Loss & Food Noise Support: Specially designed for modern wellness. These high-protein, high-fiber meals help silence food noise and maintain lean muscle, making this a perfect glp diet book for beginners and active lifestyles. Nutritional Transparency & UK Measures: This clean eating recipe book uk features precise British measurements (grams and ml) and exact macro counts (calories, protein, carbs, fiber, fat) under every recipe. Complete 30-Day Diet Plan: Transition effortlessly with a structured, stress-free meal schedule and pre-made grocery shopping lists. The Inspiration: From Dubai Dishwasher to Executive Chef George Nader’s culinary journey began in Dubai at just 20 years old. Starting at the very bottom—washing dishes and peeling vegetables - he spent 20 years learning the secret spices and techniques of master chefs from Italy, Greece, Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. Now, George brings this rich 8-country heritage to your kitchen, proving that healthy eating can taste like a high-end restaurant feast.