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*More Than a Footnote is a celebration of a few of the female geniuses, artists, innovators, goddesses, and not to be overlooked, villains. If men were there, women were too in the revolutions, discoveries, and progress. Every one of their stories deserves recognition in history classes, books, holidays,  and statues.

Fourteen-year-old Margaret Ann Scofield has always admired her charming, restless father. But when she leaves rural Ohio to work as a nanny in Cincinnati during the Great Depression, the summer brings more than the independence she hoped for. In the city, Margaret discovers a secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. At the same time, the man who employs her begins crossing boundaries; with danger closing in and her father missing somewhere in the Kentucky hills, Margaret must find the courage to follow the truth wherever it leads. Set between Cincinnati and rural Kentucky, Briar Hopper is a coming-of-age novel about family loyalty, buried shame, and a young woman...

Governing AI: When Capability Exceeds Control (Book)A field guide for people who refuse to hand the future to ungoverned systemsSecond Edition · Basil C. Puglisi · Digital Ethos · 214 pages · ISBN 9798349677687The Second Edition replaced the original text under the same ISBN, and it is the only edition on sale. Not to be confused with Governing AI: A Primer by Onur Bakiner (Cambridge University Press, 2026), a different book.AI moves faster than the institutions that are supposed to keep it in bounds. Boards form ethics committees, regulators write risk principles, and meanwhile deepfakes empty bank accounts, measurement systems misfire on workers, and automated decisions reshape lives w...

J. Paul Hickey’s historical spy novel explores identity, survival, and moral pressure in the unstable world that emerged from World War II.Most people think of identity as something fixed. A name. A country. A past. A set of memories that belong only to one person. But war can make even the most stable parts of life uncertain.The Double Man puts identity under intense pressure. Set against the collapse of Nazi Germany and the uneasy political world that follows, the novel asks what happens when survival requires a person to become someone he never expected to be.That gives the story one of its most compelling questions: How much can a person change to survive before that change begins to s...

What happens when America's biggest restaurant competitor isn't another restaurant—but the kitchen next door?What if the next great American economic revolution began at the dinner table?  When a revolutionary app called Fuud allows ordinary Americans to turn their home kitchens into profitable businesses, everything changes. Retirees become entrepreneurs, struggling families discover financial freedom, and strangers gather around dinner tables for affordable, home-cooked meals.  But as millions abandon traditional restaurants for neighborhood kitchens, a multibillion-dollar industry fights back. Corporate interests, politicians, and regulators scramble to protect the established...

Owen has always dreamed of fire.Every night, it’s the same nightmare: flames, smoke, and a shadowy figure watching from the blaze. His best mates, twins Robyn and Hadwi, try to laugh it off as his weird ‘fire dreams’, but Owen can see the panic behind their jokes.When his archaeologist father finally unearths the artifact he’s spent his career hunting, Owen feels an impossible pull toward the glowing Orb. The moment he touches it, everything changes. He slips into the Dreamworld, where a mysterious nine-tailed fox spirit calls him “Dreamwalker” and warns him that danger is coming. She’s right. A dangerously charming man named Viktor appears, asking questions Owen can’t possib...

Ariion Sanders, a disabled teenage girl, is inspired by a homeless man she meets in a New York City jail. The man, Cameron Littleheart St. Lawrence, has been arrested for bank robbery, but without convincing evidence, the judge is forced to release him. The bumbling bank robbers have their loot stolen from them and they think Cameron took it. After they kidnap Cameron, Ariion hatches a plan for his rescue, however, her scheme goes awry, and she finds herself in deep trouble.

In book one of this series, a unit of the Seventh Cavalry is on a mission over Afghanistan when their plane is hit by something. The soldiers bail out of the crippled plane and come down in Southern France and they’re 2,000 years in the past where Hannibal is taking his elephants over the Alps to attack the Romans.

In this second book they must attempt to rescue three astronauts who have come down from the ISS in a Russian Soyuz escape capsule. They are stranded on a mountain above Saravejo, about 800 miles away.

A combat mission over Afghanistan becomes something no soldier has ever trained for.When their aircraft is struck and a platoon of the Seventh Cavalry bails out, they don’t land in a war zone they recognize. Instead, the 13 soldiers hit the ground two thousand years in the past—in a world of empires, iron weapons, and wars fought face to face.Cut off from their own time and surrounded by forces that will kill them without hesitation, the men and women of the Seventh must choose quickly: remain outsiders and perish, or intervene in a history that was never meant to be altered.As modern weapons collide with ancient armies, courage, discipline, and ingenuity are pushed to their limits—and...

In the year 226 BCE, the young Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca is given an unusual and dangerous assignment: train sixty elephants for war.These massive beasts must then be transported across the Mediterranean Sea to Iberia, where they will become living weapons in Carthage’s struggle against the fiercely independent tribes of the peninsula.Among the elephants is Obolus, the largest and most powerful of them all. Two unlikely companions—Liada and the brilliant young Tin Tin Ban Sunia—become essential to Obolus’s care and training, forming a bond with the giant animal that will soon be tested by the brutal realities of war.Meanwhile, far away in the southern Iberian kingdom of A...

December, 1925. Rural Virginia.Fourteen-year-old Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier opens the barn door on a freezing winter morning and finds a girl sleeping in the hay beside his miniature horse.She is thin.Exhausted.And silent.She doesn't speak English. She refuses to explain where she came from. And the only thing she possesses is a battered suitcase she guards with her life.By the time Fuse finishes his chores, she has disappeared.But hunger, cold, and desperation soon bring her back—and set in motion a chain of events that will change both their lives forever.Her name is Rajiani Devaki.And her story is more extraordinary than anything Fuse could imagine.Kidnapped from the streets of Calcutt...

What things and events appear in twos? Well, important situations and events, such as the gender binary of male and female, the physical and the spiritual translated into body and soul, the existence of good and evil, Jesus' first coming to save, and Jesus' prophecy to return to judge, are some examples.Other instances that may seem less obvious at first, yet become more striking upon closer examination include: the pre diluvian and post diluvian earth, the promise of freedom from physical oppression and the promise of everlasting life, the first set of Ten Commandments tablets and the second set of Ten Commandments tablets given to Moses, the two silver trumpets, the two separate miraculous...

Unforgettable Memories is based on intriguing poems and stories about a woman's journey through life filled with challenges that she never thought she would have to endure.  By the grace of God, she survived it all.  It's also about determination, strength, confidence, encouragement, and understanding.  Whatever challenges you may be experiencing, you too can succeed through those challenges regardless of how long it takes through your journey in life.  It's never too late.  You are not alone.

Unforgettable Memories also includes poems and stories about nature, humor, self-esteem, and more. 

 

 

He built a multi-million-dollar empire from nothing. Now, everyone he trusts wants to tear itapart.San Francisco, 1980. Vietnam veteran Kyle Stone has spent years building Stone FinancialCorporation into a national powerhouse spanning 26 offices. From the outside, he has achieved theultimate American dream. But behind the doors of his twelve-story executive suite, Kyle’s life is spiralinginto absolute chaos.His marriage is a battlefield. Consumed by toxic jealousy and spite, his wife Suzette unleashes acampaign of sabotage, filing false compliance reports with government regulators to freeze hismulti-million-dollar state contracts. But bureaucratic destruction is only the beginning.A ruthl...

I was hit by a car and killed! Thankfully, death wasn't terminal and as the years passed in this new life, I was able to write a book, ‘Flight of a Lifetime: Miracles do happen’. This amazing, inspiring, autobiography about #hospitals #horses a #helicopter and #hope may not change the world, but it may make people's perception of the world change. It will make you cry, but also make you laugh - often at the same time; I wrote about my death and made it funny! If enough people in the world read it, we may all end up getting along and stop fighting… A book to end all wars? If nothing else, anyone reading it will see the world in a new light.

Early 1920s Rural Kentucky Bill's life is completely changed after his wife's death and two of their children are murdered. Chaos seems to follow him, but this chaos is an ancient demonic revenant who demands blood revenge. Bill wants to leave the county he was raised in and start a new life. Yet, we can't always escape from our fears.He doesn't want to believe in the old Irish folk heroes or "haints" or demons, but his mind sees otherwise. Bill fears for his sanity and what is his sole surviving son.However, there is a chilling cautionary tale to Bill's life. We can never overprotect our children from harm and evil. They are nearer than we think.Will Bill change his carefree way of liv...

A necklace has vanished in the quiet town of Whiskerville. Only one detective can crack the case, and she happens to have whiskers.Mrs. Hargrove's treasured silver necklace, set with a bright blue sapphire, has disappeared from its locked jewelry box overnight. No broken lock. No open door. Just an empty box where the necklace should be.But Nina is already on the case. She solves mysteries the way only a cat can, by watching closely, sniffing out what others miss, and following every clue to the very end. With her devoted friend Emily and her dramatic kitten sidekick Paris close behind, Nina tracks an open window, a set of muddy paw prints, and a broken chain near the library.Every clue is r...

Just days before the world erupts in the Russia-Ukraine war, Jasmine and Kave set out from Gloucester, Massachusetts in their thirty-foot fishing boat, chasing bluefin tuna across the remote Seamounts of the North Atlantic.They sail straight into a nightmare.After a violent storm disables their boat, a massive Chinese supertanker appears out of the fog, bearing down on them at full speed. The giant vessel shows no signs of slowing. Jasmine and Kave shout and wave frantically—but there is no response from the towering ship.With only seconds to spare, they dive into the sea as the tanker crushes their boat beneath its steel hull.The ship never stops.As the vessel thunders past, they see a li...

Silvano and the 7 Wonders by Rade Injac - Book 2 in the Silvano the Parrot SeriesGet ready for another colourful, heartwarming adventure with Silvano, the world’s most curious and joyful parrot! After enchanting young readers in My Day with the Parrot, Silvano returns — this time to explore the seven most magical wonders of our planet.From towering mountains and glowing oceans to ancient secrets and natural marvels, Silvano takes children on a journey filled with: Imagination, Friendship, Adventure and Gentle wisdom for growing hearts.As Silvano flaps from one wonder to the next, he teaches young readers:the importance of appreciating naturehow different cultures shape our worldwhy curio...

Silvano and the Magical Colors of the Rainbow By Rade InjacA magical journey through feelings, colors, and self-loveWhen Rade wonders why he feels so many different emotions, Silvano the parrot reveals a beautiful secret: feelings are like colors in a rainbow.Together they step into a magical rainbow world where each color teaches an important life lesson — bravery, creativity, joy, growth, calm, wisdom, and gratitude.Filled with vibrant illustrations, playful storytelling, and gentle wisdom, this heartwarming picture book helps children understand their emotions and discover the most powerful lesson of all:When you love yourself, your colors shine for the whole world.Perfect for children ...