The 5-Year-Old CEO
Despite this book’s playful title and cover image, it’s not about a child chief executive officer. Instead, author Hunter McMahon pairs short scenarios in the life of Eric, a fictional five-year-old boy, with important lessons in leadership for managers of corporations and professional consultan...
Echoes of Descent
Set on Scotland’s far northern coast in 1941, V. M. Knox’s If Necessary Alone sends Reverend Major Clement Wisdom undercover to trace enemy radio traffic. What follows is a lean, morally charged thriller—rich with atmosphere, careful tradecraft and a hero whose faith shapes every hard choice. ...
Cracks in Glass Towers
The world of artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming commonplace in our modern society. Many of the everyday things that people do are now being completely automated and changing the way that society looks at those functions. Customer service and support desk services are being phased into artif...
The Strength of the Few
James Islington is back with his explosive sequel to The Will of the Many. The Strength of the Few picks up right where the first one ends. Vis has survived the final trial of the Catenan Academy, the Iudicium, though not without loss. The ancient device beyond the Labyrinth, hidden......
The Bone Thief
Midway through The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie’s new thriller starring Cherokee B.I.A. archaeologist Syd Walker, this interaction between Syd and Shawna, a Narragansett woman who interned with the B.I.A, hit me in the heart. “No, not artifacts, not objects … This basket is a story about how weâ...
Skewed Muse
Most of us grew up reading comic strips, which were known as the Sunday Funnies, in the newspaper. They were located either on the back page or somewhere in the middle, depending on which publication they were in. Back then, comics such as Marmaduke, Garfield, Family Circus and Peanuts were......
Searching for Bowlby
C.V. Wooster has written a comprehensive biography about the life and work of Dr. John Bowlby, the noted British psychiatrist who devoted most of his career to studying the links of the emotional bond (or lack thereof) between parent/guardian and their child and how the child’s development was inh...
Reflections on Life's Illusions
If you’ve ever found yourself contemplating how much of what you believe comes from the world around you vs. how much comes from within yourself, Jane Gallagher’s Reflections on Life’s Illusions: A Memoir of Culture and Consciousness will become your next deep dive. A Memoir that Thinks Beyond...
Sometimes Orange is Almost Gold
In 1998 in Morgantown, West Virginia, a bar owner took over the sponsorship of a local adult softball team. Named Chico’s Bail Bonds after the sponsor of the hapless Bad News Bears little leaguers in the 1976 film of the same name, Chico’s Bondsmen are now immortalized in a new......
