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Descending Darkness
Martyn Rhys Vaughan (Martyn Rhys Vaughan)
Martyn Rhys Vaughan’s Descending Darkness is a gorgeous collection that blends horror, black comedy, and science fiction. A captured fighter struggles to escape a cell while the ceiling slowly descends on him, armed only with desperation and bedsheets in “A Room with No View.” A smug con man plunges into a haunted manor overnight, wins his bet but loses his sanity in “Alone.” In “Dia de los Muertos,” a walking skeleton named Ralph comes after a h...
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Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past 50+ Years
Mark S. Robinson (BookBaby)
Mark S. Robinson’s Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past 50+ Years is part curated gallery, part history lesson, a book that traces the evolution of advertising created for, and by, Black Americans from the civil rights era to the present day. The author brings 45 years of industry experience to the book and examines how brands moved from ignoring Black consumers to recognizing them as indispensable clients, and how “community relations” ad...
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Forgiveness: A Contemporary Women’s Fiction Novel
Susen Edwards (Susen Edwards)
Susen Edwards's Forgiveness opens on New Year's Eve 2020, as seventy-year-old artist Fiona Goldberg marks the fiftieth anniversary of the drunk-driving crash that killed her best friend Melissa, a tragedy punished with a mere two-hundred-dollar fine. Fiona realizes she has lived with undiagnosed PTSD for five decades. In 1969, she met Reuben Goldberg, an anti-war activist whose Vietnam draft notice led the couple to Toronto in 1971. There, Fiona...
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Semi-Pro
Clay M. Grayson (Advantage Books)
College athletics is stuck in the in-between, no longer amateur, not yet fully professional, and Clay M. Grayson's Semi-Pro is the definitive, timely guide to address that uneasy middle ground. If you love college sports—the fight songs, the tailgates, the Saturdays that feel like family reunions—this book will speak straight to your heart. Clay M. Grayson has spent over twenty years helping universities manage change, and in Semi-Pro he tackles...
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The Path of Least Regret: Decide with Clarity. Move Forward with Confidence.
Parul Somani (Forbes Books)
Parul Somani's The Path of Least Regret asks a question that will change your life: What if the secret to the hardest choices life throws at you isn’t finding the right answer, but finding the answer you can live with? That question is at the heart of this book and discussed in the author’s decision-making framework created in the most unforgiving of classrooms: days after giving birth to her second daughter, Somani, an MIT- and Harvard-trained B...
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MSP to MVP: Building Unbreakable Partnerships in the Customer Success Era
Chris Day (Forbes Books)
In MSP to MVP, Chris Day convinces his readers that uptime is no longer a value proposition, but the price of admission. He confronts the uncomfortable truth that continuously haunts managed service providers, where clients renew year after year, yet relationships suffer, expansion stalls, and growth refuses to compound. Backed by two decades spent building Fully Managed into Canada’s largest MSP, founding IT Glue, and scaling ScalePad, Day shows...
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Emergence: How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology
Bob Burgin (Forbes Books)
We did not so much build artificial intelligence as teach it to learn, and then stand back in astonishment at what we have achieved. This startling premise introduces Bob Burgin’s Emergence: How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology. The book takes readers on an odyssey from Eric Kandel’s sea slugs and Henry Molaison’s memoryless brain to Geoffrey Hinton’s neural networks. It then explores AlphaGo’s unimagined brilliance and...
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ADHD in D Minor: A Collection of Short Stories
Zoé Mahfouz (North Meridian Press)
Few books capture the chaos of a restless mind quite like ADHD in D Minor, Zoé Mahfouz's new and compelling collection of satirical short fiction. The book delivers forty-one short stories and skewers everything from literary elitism to Hollywood gatekeeping, TED Talks, wellness culture, and the endless noise that populates pop culture, to WhatsApp group chats. These are told through the enthralling voice of a neurodivergent narrator who refuses...
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Fit for Uncertainty: Lead with Purpose, Adapt to Change
Marianne Bachynski (Entrepreneur Books)
Seventy percent of transformation programs fail, and Marianne Bachynski has spent thirty years learning why. In Fit for Uncertainty, the veteran technology executive (Morgan Stanley, Citi, AIG) argues that in an era of AI-driven, warp-speed change, the old command-and-control leadership model is not just outdated but also a recipe for burnout and collapse. This book shows readers one compelling truth: uncertainty should not be viewed as an enemy...
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Red Wine and Jazz
Mark Swanson (Independent)
Set against the backdrop of late '60s and early '70s Iowa, Red Wine and Jazz follows young musician Luke Abrams as he pursues his passion for music in a world increasingly enamored with rock. As he strives to earn his electric guitar from his jazz-loving mother, the story develops into a rich canvas of family ties, personal ambition, and the intoxicating lure of music. Luke's journey is not just about achieving his dreams; it's an exploration of&...
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