The Algorithm of Us

Maya Lin believes in data—not destiny. As the lead algorithm engineer behind HeartSpark, the world’s most successful dating app, her entire job revolves around proving that love can be measured, calculated, and optimized. But after a humiliating breakup goes viral, her company’s reputation—and her confidence—take a devastating hit, leaving Maya convinced that love, at least for her, is something better solved with science than trust. Enter Eli Torres, charismatic host of the internet’s favorite podcast, The Anti-Love Experiment. His mission? Prove dating apps manipulate emotions and ruin authentic relationships. And HeartSpark is his No. 1 target. When Eli launches a public challenge encouraging listeners to date without algorithms, HeartSpark panics. To repair the company’s reputation, Maya is forced to work closely with Eli—publicly and professionally—putting the face behind the algorithm directly in the path of its loudest critic. What begins as damage control quickly becomes something more personal, especially as Maya starts to realize she may have miscalculated him—and love itself. Only one problem: Maya didn’t expect Eli to be funny. Or thoughtful. Or devastatingly sincere. Or someone she could fall for—fast, when falling is the one variable she’s sworn never to risk again. As they navigate bookstore meet-cutes, awkward “old-fashioned” dates, and viral challenge videos, the chemistry between them becomes impossible to ignore. But the closer they get, the heavier Maya’s secret becomes… and the more terrifying the idea of losing Eli feels, because when he fully understands who she is and what she represents, the fallout threatens everything—her career, his platform, and the fragile belief that love might be more than data after all. In a world where love is automated, what happens when two people choose to follow their hearts instead? Perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis, The Soulmate Equation, and The Unhoneymooners, The Algorithm of Us is a hilarious, heart-squeezing, slow-burn romance about modern dating, second chances, and the magic that can’t be calculated.

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Lyrics & Love Notes : “Two voices. One app. A love song they never expected to create.”

 

Lyrics & Love Notes :

“Two voices. One app.

A love song they never expected to create.”

(The Bouchard Family Book 1)

After a devastating betrayal ends her thirteen-year marriage, middle school teacher Jada Simmons never imagined that she'd find love again. She discovers Groove, a karaoke app that is her escape and the place where she meets her mysterious duet partner, MrGrooveGhost. Noah Bouchard, is a billionaire tech mogul behind the screen and devoted single father. Burned by his own failed marriage, he has officially sworn off finding love. Well that's until Jada's strength, spirit, and song begins to break through to his guarded heart.

From their virtual duets to real-life romance, Jada and Noah must navigate distance, overcome family drama, meddling exes, and the constant pressure of the spotlight. Together they discover that true love doesn't just heal wounds. It creates something worth singing about. “Lyrics & Love Notes: A heartwarming romance about second chances, a blended family, and the courage to believe in love again.”

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A Different Approach on the Skills of Life

 

A Different Approach 

on the Skills of Life

By Leatrice D. Williams

What if the most important lessons in school were not only found in textbooks, but in the everyday choices that prepare young people for life beyond the classroom?

A Different Approach on the Skills of Life by Leatrice D. Williams opens the door to a curriculum built from more than three decades of teaching experience, community involvement, and a deep concern for how students grow as thinkers, citizens, and future professionals. This is not a traditional academic guide focused only on grades, tests, and classroom routines. It is a practical world of mock interviews, student portfolios, entrepreneurship projects, character education, public speaking, financial awareness, career exploration, teamwork, conflict resolution, and real-world readiness.

At its center is the belief that education should feel alive. A classroom can become a business trade show, a food truck competition, a career convention, a debate floor, a portfolio showcase, or a place where students learn how to speak, dress, listen, lead, apologize, and think with purpose. Leatrice’s approach brings “old school” fundamentals and modern life skills together, reminding educators that reading, writing, arithmetic, manners, character, and critical thinking still matter in a world shaped by technology and artificial intelligence.

The book carries the atmosphere of a busy, creative classroom where students are not passive learners but participants in their own future. They are asked to reflect on values, make decisions, solve problems, build confidence, and imagine the lives they want to pursue. The curriculum also responds to the social and emotional impact of the pandemic, recognizing that students may need renewed guidance in cooperation, attention, communication, and healthy interaction.

What makes this work stand out is its moral urgency. It asks educators to consider whether students are truly being prepared for life—or simply moved from one grade level to the next. The dilemma is clear: should education remain confined to academic instruction, or should it also teach young people how to function with integrity, independence, creativity, and respect in the real world?

Rooted in classroom experience and shaped by the Foundations program, A Different Approach on the Skills of Life presents education as preparation for more than a report card. It is preparation for interviews, careers, relationships, service, leadership, responsibility, and self-belief.

The final lesson is simple: when students are given practical skills, moral guidance, and room to discover their potential, the classroom becomes a foundation for life.

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Under the Cover of Darkness

 

Under the Cover of Darkness

By Kat Markley

What if the darkest chapters of a life could become a powerful story of faith, healing, and resilience?

For readers drawn to deeply personal true stories, Under the Cover of Darkness by Kat Markley offers a moving biography/autobiography about survival, memory, and the long road toward healing. The book begins with a simple medical-history question in a doctor’s office, leading Kat to revisit the painful truth of her childhood and the family history she never fully had access to.

At the heart of the book is a life shaped by trauma but not defined only by it. Kat writes about a childhood marked by fear, confusion, and emotional wounds that would follow her into adulthood. Her story gives readers a personal look at how early experiences can shape one’s sense of safety, identity, and belonging. Yet the book also carries a quiet message of endurance: even after years of pain, healing remains possible.

What makes Under the Cover of Darkness meaningful is its honesty. Kat does not present trauma as something easily forgotten or neatly resolved. Instead, her story reflects the reality of living with PTSD and anxiety while still choosing to seek help, build a life, and hold on to faith. Her present-day life in the valley of Texas with her husband and their two pups adds a gentle contrast to the darkness of the past. Their trips in a used motorhome to cooler towns and states reflect a life still moving forward, one mile and one day at a time.

Readers of biography and autobiography may find this book especially compelling because it speaks to courage in its most human form. It is not only about surviving difficult memories, but also about learning to live beyond them. Through counseling, faith, marriage, and reflection, Kat’s journey shows the importance of support, truth-telling, and spiritual grounding.

Under the Cover of Darkness is a book for readers who appreciate true stories with emotional depth, vulnerability, and purpose. It invites reflection on the hidden struggles many people carry and the strength it takes to bring those experiences into the light.

For readers wondering what can emerge from life’s darkest chapters, Kat Markley’s Under the Cover of Darkness offers a sincere and courageous reminder that healing, faith, and resilience can still be found beyond the pain.

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From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva!

   

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva!

Tired of male authors advising that we women should 'Think Like A Man But Act Like A Lady? Frustrated with male authors that claim they will spill the 'secrets' on how to get and keep a man? Fed-up with books that continue with the double standard that 'women should hold out & put themselves on lock-down' while men get to spread themselves all over town? Want to learn how to become a Brilliant Bitch in control? Want to finally learn the 'secrets' to not only getting the man you want--but one that also wants YOU? Then this volume of the Dynamic Diva series, 'Don't Think Like A Man--Think Like A Diva is for you! Learn to not just 'name' your power, but to claim it! Want to be a Real Woman with a REAL Man? Want to experience what you desire AND what you Deserve? Want to show partners that are not respecting you how to begin to do so, or 'Get 'Ta Stepping?" Then begin by honoring YOU in all your glory. When you honor you, others are compelled to do the same!

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MANUFACTURED MINDS: The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

 

MANUFACTURED MINDS:

The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

They didn't target your child's attention. They targeted the window before your child could defend it.

Internal documents unsealed in 2026 reveal how major platforms segment children by "age of acquisition" — tracking lifetime revenue projections that are three to five times higher for children captured before age ten. Their internal term for these children is not "users."

It is native integrations.

Your child wasn't exposed to the algorithm. Your child was installed by it. Before identity formed. Before the prefrontal cortex could push back. Before you knew there was a window — and that the window was closing.

Screen time limits don't work. The platforms' own suppressed research proves it: by month six, restrictions return usage to within five percent of baseline. The parental controls weren't built to protect your child. They were built to protect the platform from the appearance of not protecting your child.

Manufactured Minds gives you what the platforms spent billions making sure you'd never have:

• The truth about the "installation window" — and how to close it before the machine opens it
• Age-adapted protocols for every stage: Foundations (4–9), Awakening (10–13), Sovereignty (14–17)
• The Cognitive Immune System — the one capacity the algorithm's entire business model depends on your child never developing
• The Family Freedom Compass — a shared household tool that turns your liberation into theirs
• The Algorithm Spotter, the Choice Game, the Maker Hour, and the Identity Journal — practices that build minds the feed cannot predict

You started this book reaching for your phone. You will finish it reaching for your child's hand.

The platforms called your children native integrations.

This book turns them into native immunities.

K. R. Strand — Researcher, rebel, and survivor of the attention economy.

Your thoughts aren't yours anymore. They're predicted, shaped, and sold — every scroll, pause, and hesitation harvested to keep you hooked, divided, and compliant. Platforms don't recommend content. They engineer your reality. And they're terrified you'll notice. Manufactured Minds is the book that makes you notice — then hands you the escape keys.

THIS IS NOT ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT SCREEN TIME. Every chapter answers the question the previous one planted. Every exercise compounds. By the final page, you won't have merely read about opting out — you'll have performed your own escape.

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Cry for the Children

 

Cry for the Children

By Donna Deal

When the people meant to protect a child become the source of fear, innocence is forced to grow up too soon.

Cry for the Children opens into a world where family is fragile, security is temporary, and love is often tangled with absence, desperation, and fear. At its center are three young siblings whose lives begin to shift after their mother, burdened by limited means and impossible choices, is forced to place them in the care of others. What follows is not a single home or a single season of hardship, but a passage through places that promise shelter while quietly concealing danger.

The book moves through rural Virginia with a vivid sense of place—farmhouses, cold rooms, kitchen baths, long days of labor, and the rough edges of country living. Yet the landscape is more than backdrop. It becomes part of the emotional weather of the story: isolating, unpredictable, and often haunted by the feeling that childhood can be altered in an instant. In this world, even ordinary things carry tension. A meal, a bedtime, a visit from a parent, a church service, a ride down a driveway—each can turn without warning into something unsettling.

What makes the premise especially compelling is the contrast between appearances and reality. The adults in this story occupy familiar roles—caretakers, churchgoers, relatives, authority figures—yet the children must learn early that safety does not always live where it claims to. The result is a narrative shaped by silence, obedience, and the private logic of survival. For readers drawn to memoir-like emotional intensity, family trauma narratives, and stories that blur the line between personal history and psychological reckoning, Cry for the Children offers a world that is both intimate and deeply unsettling.

But this is not only a story about what happens in childhood. It is also about what remains. The shadows of those early years stretch forward, following these children into adulthood, into memory, into the lives they try to build long after the doors of those homes have closed behind them. The book invites readers into a journey where pain, resilience, and buried truth exist side by side, asking not only what was endured, but what it takes to live beyond it.

For readers who seek stories outside the expected—stories raw with memory, heavy with atmosphere, and fearless in confronting the hidden fractures inside family life—Cry for the Children opens a door into a world that is difficult to enter and even harder to forget.

Some childhoods end in years, but their echoes can last a lifetime.

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