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The Determinists: Harris, Sapolsky, Hossenfelder, and the Free Will Debate by Lawrence David Rose

A bracing, brainy challenge to the case against free will. Are human beings genuinely capable of choosing what they think and do, or are their decisions inevitable products of biology, environment, brain activity, and physical law? Rose tackles this enduring…
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Soul Octopus Analogy – The Soul’s Endless Dance Across the Web of Creation Bud Megargee

A bold, imaginative voyage into the soul’s infinite possibilities… Megargee’s latest gives reincarnation an audacious new shape. Imagining the soul as an octopus, he positions its head as the seat of a unified consciousness and its tentacles as individual lives…
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The Power of Four: Elements, Humors, Temperaments, Types by W. Nikola-Lisa

A brisk and brainy tour of the patterns that have shaped how humans understand the world and themselves. Nikola-Lisa’s latest book offers an illuminating tour of the fourfold ideas that have shaped Western thought for more than two millennia. The…
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Summary of The Governed Enterprise: An AI Governance Playbook for Consumer Goods by Robin Horstmann

A disciplined, real-world roadmap for organizations racing to keep AI under control… Horstmann’s debut book addresses one of enterprise AI’s most pressing challenges: governing systems that are already embedded across the business. Horstmann argues that the greatest AI risk facing…
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A Snake on the Heart: History, Mystery, and Truth: The Entangled Journeys of a Biographer and His Nazi Subject by Patrick S. Wolfe

A meticulously researched exploration of collaboration, memory, and the elusive nature of truth… Wolfe’s ambitious biography is a  searching and deeply researched portrait of a man who lived a double life. Jan Jürgen “John” Petersen was a respected Canadian social…
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Pickleball Saved My Life by Colette Struthers

Wise, approachable, and deeply inspiring. Struthers debuts with an engaging blend of memoir, concussion advocacy, and pickleball evangelism. After decades of soccer-related head injuries, she found herself trapped in what she calls a world of “fog, fatigue, and frustration,” struggling…
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Sleeping With the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China by Edouard Prisse

A passionate and provocative critique of the policies that helped reshape the global balance of power. Prisse delivers a forceful, controversial warning about China’s rise and the West’s role in enabling it.  Looking back to China’s entry into the global…
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Kinker: Circusing the Seventies by Dave Letterfly Knoderer

A vivid memoir of chasing wonder beneath the big top and finding redemption beyond it… Knoderer’s engaging memoir resurrects the rough-and-tumble world of the 1970s American circus while charting one young man’s search for identity, belonging, and purpose. Growing up…
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How Not to Up and Die from Lack of Sleep by Dr. Jerome Puryear

Clear-eyed, compassionate, convincing; an illuminating guide to modern exhaustion. A veteran physician investigates the hidden consequences of sleep deprivation and offers a roadmap for reclaiming energy in an increasingly sleepless world. Puryear approaches sleep not as a wellness trend or…
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Hydrangeas from Dad: His Gift from Beyond that Rescued My Soul: Healing and Thriving After the Loss of a Loved One by Mary Ellen Connett MacDonald MS

Mystical, moving, and quietly profound. Marriage and family therapist MacDonald confronts the death of her father, and the startling spiritual aftermath that reshapes her understanding of grief, identity, and the endurance of love. William “Bill” Basil Pukatch, the emotional center…
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And It Only Took 100 Years… by Alan Shayne

Reflective, humane, and beautifully observed. There are memoirs that recount achievement, and there are memoirs that illuminate the emotional history of an era. Shayne’s memoir does both with uncommon elegance. One might expect a Hollywood memoir full of glamorous anecdotes…
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Stagnation Assassin: The Anti-Consultant Manifesto by Todd Hagopian

A clear-eyed, pragmatic, and business-centric manifesto for leaders ready to break the mold… Hagopian offers a bracing, no-nonsense manifesto on why most businesses stagnate and what it takes to break out of it. Drawing on a career built around major…
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40 Miles to Happy, the Love Story of a Rancher and his Wife by Vally Mulford

A heartfelt, lyrical, and deeply moving portrait of love, resilience, and ordinary lives… Mulford reflects on the quiet power of ordinary lives in this multigenerational memoir. “Even though the story that we each create will ultimately succumb to time… we…
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Through the Lens of An Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study by Benjamin N Carrasquillo Jr

Challenging, meticulous, and thought-provoking… Carrasquillo challenges the modern reader’s approach to Scripture in Through the Lens of an Ancient Yisra’elite Bible Study, an expansive work that argues the Bible has long been interpreted through the wrong cultural frame. The author…
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A Real Life American Dream: The John H. McClatchy Story by Susan Marie Chapman

Quietly authoritative, richly detailed, and deeply reflective—a vivid portrait of grit, enterprise, and family. In Chapman’s compelling work, a Philadelphia builder rises from childhood poverty to create one of the region’s most influential real estate empires. Born in Baltimore in…
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Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done by Suzanne Domel Baxter (Author), Cheryl Iny Harris (Author)

An inspiring yet unsentimental portrait of perseverance, advocacy, and clinical excellence. Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done is both a professional guide and a deeply human collection of stories that expand our understanding of who belongs in…
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Aspiring Child: A Biography of Mary W. Shelley in Sonnets by Ted Morrissey

Quietly radical and intellectually precise. Morrissey blends poetic biography with quiet literary reflection in his latest book. Written as sonnets and prose addressed directly to Mary Shelley, the work forgoes a conventional life narrative in favor of a deeply human…
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The ME Factor: Your Secret Weapon for Author Visibility by Lisa Towles

Thoughtful, exacting, and quietly radical; a redefinition of what it means to be visible as an author. Towles, a bestselling thriller author with fourteen published novels, opens her latest book with a stark question: in a marketplace saturated with books…
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My Diecast Life by Dan Vado

A restrained, penetrating memoir of childhood and inherited identity. Vado’s memoir offers a measured, unsentimental examination of how a child learns to survive within the overlapping pressures of family, culture, and unspoken rules. The book’s frame is deceptively simple. Now…
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Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines by Adriene Caldwell

A raw, and unsparing memoir that explores survival, family betrayal, systemic failure, and the fierce will to keep living when the world offers no safety. “Please, God, take the pain away,” Caldwell writes at the opening of the book, moments…