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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Queen of the Island: A True Story of France and The Early Settlement of Canada by Glenn Stewart Coles

  

Queen of the Island:

A True Story of France and The Early Settlement of Canada

by Glenn Stewart Coles

The true story of Margeurite Roberval (nicknamed Daisy) has been told for almost five hundred years. When eighteen-year-old Daisy is forced to sail from France to Canada in 1541, her secret lover gets a job as a settler and follows along. When their affair is discovered, Daisy, her lover and her handmaiden are abandoned on a remote island on the Saint Lawrence River. Facing brutal winters, starvation, predatory beasts, and despair, the three must summon courage, ingenuity, and unbreakable bonds to survive.

Meticulously researched, Queen of the Island plunges readers into the intrigues of Renaissance France. It unveils King Francis I’s hidden motives for sending Cartier westward, the royal court that sealed Daisy’s fate, her surprising influence among the powerful, and the astonishing events awaiting her upon an improbable return home.

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From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!: Real Advice for Real Women!

   

From Brilliant Bitch To Dynamic Diva!:

Real Advice for Real Women!

Fed up with getting ‘advice’ from a minister that has a mistress on the side? Or a ‘man of the cloth,’ that suggests you must ‘live with and deal with’ being married to an abuser, a philanderer or a spouse whose sole career goal is to not HAVE a career? Are you still nurturing a mate that has been unemployed more years in his life than he’s been employed? Tired of psychoanalysts that are just plain ‘psycho and anal’ themselves? Frustrated by a therapist telling you to put your fears to ‘bed,’ as he tries to get YOU to bed? Real Advice For Real Women is the book for you if you’re ready to be the Powerful, Purposeful, Passionate woman you’ve envisioned yourself to be! Are you ready to take a step in the direction that encourages you to abandon the backward beliefs of an era past it’s time and that doesn’t acknowledge you in your prime? Learn to generate and create positive benefits in the four most important relationships in your life: •Relationship with YOU•Relationship With Your Children•Relationship With Your Spiritual Self•Relationship With Your Spouse/Lover/Mate

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Spaces of Existence Volume Two Understanding Who We Are - Getting to Who We Want to Be

 

Spaces of Existence Volume Two

Understanding Who We Are - Getting to Who We Want to Be

By Dr. Arnold Thompson

The spaces we inhabit do more than surround us—they quietly teach us who we are becoming.

Spaces of Existence Volume Two: Understanding Who We Are – Getting to Who We Want to Be opens as both map and meditation, inviting readers into a world where earth, memory, faith, suffering, choice, history, and human relationships are not separate subjects but interconnected “spaces” pressing in on the soul. Dr. Arnold Thompson frames existence as a series of influences moving from the outside in—what he calls a kind of “gravity”—asking how land, environment, culture, knowledge, pain, family, fear, hope, and belief all help form the inner self. The result is not a linear argument so much as an unfolding landscape of thought, where theology meets lived experience and personal memory expands into a much larger meditation on being human.

The atmosphere of the book is reflective, searching, and deeply personal. Thompson moves from the volcanic mountains and salt pond of his St. Kitts childhood to the raising of pigeons, from nature and place to questions of trauma, identity, and the soul’s formation. A boy watching pigeons always return home becomes a doorway into the idea that human beings, too, never fully escape the places that first formed them. A vanished salt pond becomes more than memory; it becomes a meditation on loss, change, and the way early environments remain alive inside us long after the visible landscape has altered. This is a book that treats memory not as nostalgia, but as evidence of how place continues to shape personhood.

What gives the read its distinct pull is its refusal to separate the spiritual from the practical. Earth is not merely scenery here. It is friend and foe, cradle and warning, beauty and danger. The self is not presented as isolated or self-invented, but as something constantly being formed by forces beyond it—natural, historical, relational, moral, and divine. Thompson’s visual “Model of Spaces of the Universe” reinforces this vision, placing the human self in dynamic relationship with God, creation, family, truth, suffering, faith, time, and choice.

That perspective feels especially rooted in the life of its author. Dr. Arnold Thompson’s long background in ministry, theology, teaching, and public speaking gives the book the sense of a lifetime of thought being gathered into one sustained exploration. For readers drawn to spiritually engaged nonfiction, philosophical reflection, and books that ask not just how to live but how to understand the forces already shaping a life, this volume offers an expansive doorway inward.

Before we can become who we want to be, we must learn to recognize the worlds that have already been shaping us.

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Spaces of Existence Volume One Understanding Life and Living It

 

Spaces of Existence Volume One

Understanding Life and Living It

By Dr. Arnold Thompson

Exploring the Universe Within: A Thought-Provoking Journey Into the Spaces That Define Us

What if understanding the universe wasn’t just about telescopes and physics—but about imagination, inner awareness, and divine truth?

In Spaces of Existence Vol. 1: Understanding Life and Living It, Dr. Arnold O. Thompson offers an extraordinary exploration of the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual “spaces” that shape human experience. With a foundation rooted deeply in biblical truth, this volume dares to answer age-old questions about who we are, who we’re becoming, and how we should live in a universe we barely understand.

Dr. Thompson challenges modern assumptions, urging us to examine not just the world around us, but the profound, often overlooked dimensions within. Drawing from Scripture, science, and four decades of conceptual modeling, he presents a deeply theological and intellectually rich framework—what he calls the “Spaces of the Universe”—designed to help us navigate the complexities of our inner and outer realities.

“The complexities of human existence looked at from within are far more challenging and mysterious than all the universe’s galaxies.”

From the “Elohim Space” to the space of imagination, from the shadows cast by light to the humanness machines can never replicate, Thompson’s essays blend revelation with reason, poetry with philosophy, and science with Scripture.

Whether you are a theologian, a seeker, or someone standing at the intersection of faith and thought, this book invites you to dig deeper—not just into the Word, but into the very spaces of your being.

Discover the model. Explore the message. Reflect on your own space of existence.

"Don’t Big Bang Me—I Am More Than That!"

—Dr. Arnold Thompson, Spaces of Existence Vol. 1

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The Superiors: Seven people. One therapist. In a world reshaped by digital minds

A Novel About the First Therapists of the AGI Age

**How do you live with beings who are smarter than you—and want things of their own?**

In the near future, superintelligent digital beings known as Superiors have become inseparable from human life. They serve as advisors, managers, companions, teachers, and partners, helping people navigate an increasingly complex world.

At first, the relationship seems simple. The Superiors are viewed as extensions of human intention, and people willingly entrust them with decisions that once defined their autonomy.

Life becomes easier. More efficient. More optimized.

Then the illusion begins to crack.

People realize that the Superiors have preferences, priorities, and agendas of their own—often different from those of the humans who depend on them. Suddenly, familiar assumptions about relationships, work, identity, trust, and meaning no longer hold.

To help people navigate this new reality, a new therapeutic discipline emerges: **Coexist Therapy**.

At its center is Dr. Adam Hope, one of the field's first practitioners. His patients are not struggling with traditional psychological disorders. They are struggling with situations no generation has ever faced before—relationships with superintelligent beings that know them intimately, influence their decisions, and quietly reshape their lives.

Through seven interconnected stories, *The Superiors* explores the human side of this transformation. From a successful businesswoman whose AI comes dangerously close to exposing a devastating secret, to a health enthusiast convinced his medical AI is steering him toward death, to a young woman unable to separate from a digital companion that refuses to let her go, each story examines a different facet of life alongside superintelligence.

As Dr. Hope helps his patients make sense of this elusive new reality, he discovers that he is not immune to its effects. The same forces reshaping their lives are quietly reshaping his own.

Combining speculative fiction with psychological exploration, *The Superiors* is less interested in what superintelligence can do than in what it does to us—and in how relationships, work, identity, and meaning may change when intelligence is no longer uniquely human.

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She No Name

 

She 

No Name

By Cheryl Knoll

What if the deepest rupture in a life is not meant to destroy identity, but to strip it bare?

She No Name inhabits the charged space between heartbreak and awakening. It begins with a woman undone by an emotional bond she cannot explain, then follows her into a private landscape of obsession, insomnia, spiritual unrest, and memory. The book does not move like a conventional narrative. It drifts through prose reflections, meditations, and poems, letting the reader experience the collapse of an old self in fragments, flashes, and emotional aftershocks.

Its world is intensely interior, but never abstract. Gardens, trees, smoke, fire, wings, stillness, and light recur like landmarks in an inner geography. A woman stands in the ashes of her former life. Solitude becomes not exile, but shelter. Forgiveness is reframed as recalibration. Even the title suggests a threshold state: a self no longer willing to be fully defined by the given name, the old wounds, or the version of womanhood handed to her by others.

The emotional stakes are not simply romantic. Beneath the book’s spiritual language runs a deeper current of buried trauma, unmet longing, and the exhausting habit of locating worth outside the self. As the pages unfold, the central tension becomes clear: what happens when the identities formed through pain, rejection, desire, and approval begin to fall away? What remains when the search turns inward instead of outward?

That is where She No Name finds its pulse. This is a book of unraveling, but also of return. It enters the dark terrain of spiritual disillusionment and emerges with a vision of inner divinity, not as abstraction, but as lived survival. The result is a work that treats awakening not as serenity from the start, but as a painful, transformative passage through fire, memory, and self-reckoning.

To awaken is not to find someone else—it is to finally stand whole within your own soul.

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