Claire Flannagan, a young lawyer, has landed a coveted job with a law firm that represents the largest nonprofit hospital system in the nation. She is assigned to an unscrupulous partner who aspires to be the next secretary of health and human services but faces the daunting prospect of overcoming an "anti-vax" aspirant for that cabinet position. Claire undertakes a series of meetings with the former CEO of the hospital system, a quirky, cigar-smoking Catholic nun, Sister Ursula. Although a founder of the hospital system, Sister Ursula is being pushed out by executives who place profits above the system's charitable mission. The two find themselves enmeshed in legal and ethical dilemmas and develop a close bond that enriches them both.

Irreverent, witty, and very timely, Taking Up Life in Both Hands captures the hypocrisy pervading the United States political system today.

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After a lifetime beside his sister, a brother has six weeks to keep one final promise.
When an unexpected diagnosis brought Nancy home for hospice, the doctor gave her about six weeks.
For her brother Bill, those weeks became more than a countdown. They became the final chapter in a family story shaped by duty, silence, erased women, hidden labor, and weight carried quietly from one generation to the next.
Moving between Nancy’s final days and the generations that came before her, Six Weeks is a literary memoir about caregiving, sibling love, family fracture, and a promise between siblings to reconcile the choices they made, the choices made for them, and the weight carried forward.
At its center is Nancy: funny, stubborn, faithful, private, and determined to meet the end with dignity. With those who loved her nearby, her brother tries to give her that dignity through the language he has always trusted: work, presence, protection, and love expressed through action.
Restrained, intimate, and deeply personal, Six Weeks is a witness against erasure and a record of what it means to carry someone home with grace.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4vP6e81

When an unexpected invitation reunites four former art-school friends, none of them realizes what they’ve agreed to.

The exhibition was supposed to be simple—a chance to reconnect, share their work, and revisit a friendship that once shaped their lives. But as opening night approaches, old dynamics resurface, unspoken tensions rise, and each of them is forced to confront the choices, sacrifices, successes, and regrets that have defined the years since they last stood together.

Daniel is learning how to rebuild after loss. Claire is quietly questioning the life she chose. Marcus is holding everything together with charm—and something much heavier just beneath it. Julian is creating like everything depends on it…because it might.

Through love and loss, marriage and ambition, grief and hope, The Canvas We Share explores the ways friendships evolve over time and how the people who know us best often hold a mirror to who we have become. As old wounds resurface and long-buried truths emerge, each friend begins to question not only the path they have taken, but the life they still hope to build.

What begins on the canvas doesn’t stay there.

And not all of them will walk away unchanged.

The Canvas We Share is a story about friendship, vulnerability, forgiveness, and the enduring connections that shape our lives. Set against the backdrop of the contemporary art world, it reminds us that while careers, passions, and circumstances may change, the most important masterpiece is often the life we create together.

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Crisis leadership can be the toughest type of leadership—and the most crucial to master. Whether the stakes are literally life-and-death or just feel that way, this is the essential guide to keeping your team at their best when things are at their worst.
Successfully navigating a crisis doesn’t require an innate talent for high-pressure situations. It requires understanding why we act the way we do when business as usual is disrupted—and how to stay calm, think clearly, and execute on the right priorities.
Henry J. Evans has spent decades studying, practicing, and coaching other leaders through crises. He’s seen firsthand that whether a crisis is as deadly as roadside bombs during counterterrorism operations, as frustrating as bacon shortages during a pandemic, or as stressful as a family business on the edge of bankruptcy, the strategic, interpersonal, and emotional challenges are the same.
Drawing on psychology, brain science, vivid true stories, and proven tools and tactics, Evans shows readers how to:

• Juggle the demands of today’s crisis without dropping the ball on tomorrow’s priorities.

• Decide when to trust data and AI and when to trust their gut instincts.

• Hold people accountable without destroying their sense of Emotional Safety.®

• Take care of the team’s needs without sacrificing the leader’s well-being.

This is an invaluable guide for entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and anyone trying to guide a team through tough times. It includes practical tools for honing your resilience, reaction times, listening and communication skills, threat assessment, emotional regulation, and more.

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When a brilliant shipping executive falls for the heir to a powerful Norwegian maritime dynasty, she must navigate love, legacy, and corporate ambition without surrendering control of her own future.

You've read the small business books. Built the systems. The fires slowed down — but they're not stopping.

The business systems on your bookshelf were designed for companies with shareholders, boards, and management hierarchies your small businesses will never have.

Somewhere along the way these got handed to the business owner standing next to his front-line employees every morning and were presented as the answer.

Some of them help. But none of them were built for you.

Peter S. Bergeron has spent fifty years inside the pressure cooker of small business. His journey began at 4 years old in his dad's shop, who had Peter’s mom tell him he might want to find work outside the family business at 14. Moving through manufacturing, distribution, and professional services at different firms, Bergeron returned to work for his dad 14 years later.

When his father passed unexpectedly in 2019, Peter was at work the next morning — because that's what a small business demands from its Trapped Operator. On January 13, 2020, Peter was forced to close the doors on that same business.

In the years that followed, working in several different small businesses, he reflected on how in every one of those experiences he saw the same structural pressure wearing different names. Same fires. Different owners. Same pressure. And no framework built to explain why.

The Trapped Operator introduces the 12 Fatal Issues Framework™ — grounded in doctoral research, built around the owner at its center. Without it, every new system you install only fixes symptoms while the underlying disease keeps compounding.

Inside The Trapped Operator, you'll discover:

• Why the systems you already use haven't stopped the fires — and how to identify which of the 12 Fatal Issues™ your business has before you spend thousands on the wrong solution
• How to use the Fatal Snapshot™ — a 6-question assessment placing your business in one of 8 structural profiles — so you know if Traction®or Profit First ® can actually hold before you install them
• Why the pressure always feels like it's shifting — because it is. As your business moves through Survival, Scale, and Stability states, what worked last year may be wrong for where you are today
• Why every attempt to step away fails — and what has to be built first. Peter's family still teases him about the Disney trip that started at noon because the morning belonged to the business
• Your complimentary membership to 12fatalissues.com — the Fatal-48™ diagnostic, your personal structural dashboard, issue-by-issue guides for all 12 Fatal Issues, webinars, and the monthly Operator Newsletter

Any framework that promises to eliminate all problems is lying to you. Small businesses are living organisms, run by humans carrying the weight of every name on that payroll. The goal isn't perfection. It's containment — systems built to restrain issues before they ignite into full blown fires.

70% of small business transfers fail. The 30% who succeed didn't work harder. They were just built with a clearer lens.

Bergeron has been that client, that operator, and the one who had to turn off the lights. He's not selling a corporate template. He's giving you the lens he wished he'd had — built from fifty years of living the truth of small business.

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Thirteen ghost stories of the shudder variety. Ghosts of spurned women, angry men, forgotten and lost children. Haunting places such as basements, attics, churches, coffee houses, and the Globe stage. Dare if you dare to read these shudder tales at night alone.

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In this re-telling of A Christmas Carol as a fictionalized memoir, Justin R. must make a life-or-death decision: he can give up his stony heart to learn about forgiveness and work the ways of recovery to gain a fleshy heart or he can wreck his life against the obstacles of stress, his ex-wife, and guilt over his past failures.

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THE OPERATING MODEL FOR LEADING WHEN AI CHANGES THE SPEED OF EVERYTHING

AI is compressing the distance between signal, decision, action, and consequence. The gap between leaders who can operate at this speed and leaders still waiting for alignment is widening.

Are you shaping the system, or reacting after the moment has already passed?

The MACH-10 Leader is the practical leadership playbook for the AI-compressed era. From multi-award-winning author Jason M. Riggs, author of The MACH-10 PM, this book shows leaders how to make better decisions faster, build accountable systems, and lead with judgment when speed alone is no longer enough.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is for leaders, founders, executives, product leaders, operators, managers, consultants, and builders working where AI is changing how fast decisions get made, work gets done, and consequences arrive.

It is not a beginner introduction to AI. It is a practical system for leading through compressed time, decision latency, automation risk, organizational slowdown, and human judgment.

STOP WAITING FOR THE SYSTEM TO SLOW DOWN. START LEADING AT THE SPEED IT ALREADY MOVES.

Jason M. Riggs introduces the MACH-10 Leadership Model: a framework for leading when AI accelerates execution, decision windows collapse, and traditional leadership habits create delay instead of control.

You will learn how to separate productive speed from performative motion, reduce decision latency, strengthen ownership, prevent automation from scaling the wrong work, and protect the human edge that determines what matters.

WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO

By the end of this book, you will know how to lead at MACH-10:

THE DECISION VALUE LAW
Understand why decision quality, timing, and ownership must work together before a decision can create value.

SPEED WITH SOUL
Move fast enough to matter without surrendering judgment, context, or accountability.

DECISION LATENCY
Identify where decisions lose value while the organization is still aligning, validating, or waiting for permission.

THE GODZILLA EFFECT
Prevent small AI-driven errors from scaling into organizational damage before anyone understands what happened.

THE AUTOMATION TRAP
Recognize when automation moves friction, rework, and accountability somewhere else.

LEARNING VELOCITY
Build faster feedback loops so teams learn from reality before slower organizations finish debating theory.

THE HUMAN EDGE
Use AI for leverage without letting judgment, taste, ownership, and responsibility go soft.

INSIDE THE BOOK, YOU WILL FIND:

• A leadership model for AI-compressed organizations
• Frameworks for faster decisions, clearer ownership, and accountable speed
• Field-tested patterns from product, strategy, restaurant technology, and AI automation
• Chapter-end diagnostics, tools, and leadership moves you can apply immediately
• An operating philosophy for leading with Speed with Soul

THE SEPARATION IS HAPPENING NOW

Slow leadership is no longer neutral. Alignment can become delay. Automation can create motion without judgment. Speed can amplify confusion as easily as advantage.

The leaders who win the AI era will know where speed belongs, where judgment matters, and when the system needs ownership before it needs another meeting.

Whether you are leading a team, scaling a company, or trying to keep pace with AI-driven change, The MACH-10 Leader gives you the operating model for leading when the future will not wait.

The system is already moving. The Kindle Edition is built for leaders moving with it, wherever the work takes them.

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America is at a critical crossroads. Buffeted by the strong head winds of deeply divisive social change and faced with the loss internationally of its previously unchallenged position as the world’s greatest military and economic powerhouse, America has entered a no man’s land of intensive soul searching and doubt with respect to its place in an ever changing and increasingly hostile world. The once great American birthrights of life, personal liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are under attack on numerous fronts by the purveyors of elitism, radicalism, and globalism. In There Once Was an Idea Called America, Richard Daniel McCann lays out the series of events that brought America to its current state and argues for the redevelopment of the factors which made her great: self-sufficiency, personal responsibility, family, faith, community, patriotism, and a robust middle class. Only by anchoring the future to these time-honored values can the United States hope to divest itself of the scourge of radicalism, elitist plutocracy, and globalism’s economic race to the bottom.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4poONcQ