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The Children of the Long Winter
A Novel
A grieving Danish historian arrives in a small Swedish town to catalogue an archive. What she finds instead is a voice.
Margrete Bilde, sixty-one, has come north after her husband’s death, carrying her professional distance like armour. In the uncatalogued boxes of a parish library, she discovers 18 sheets...
The Last Reader
A Novel
Hanne Lindhardt has not left her apartment in three years. From the third floor of a building on Strandgade, she watches the Copenhagen harbor and translates Russian poetry, the work she has done for half a century. Her groceries come by delivery. Her oldest friend comes on Thursdays. The world outside...
The Tyranny of Shoulds
From ‘must’ to ‘me’: redefine your life’s script
NEW AND UPDATED SECOND EDITION – FEBRUARY 2026
You wake up already behind. Before your feet hit the floor, the list has started. You should exercise. You should eat better. You should be further along by now. You should call your mother. You should want what everyone else seems to want.
Invisible
A novel about disappearing. And being found
At sixty-four, Ruth Taylor has begun, perhaps without noticing, to become good at being in a day without anyone knowing she was there.
One morning, she holds her hand up to the light and can see through it.
Invisible is the unsentimental story of a woman fading from the world...
The Waterline
Coming up for air in the age of AI
Something is being handed over, and almost no one has noticed.
It is 2026 in Berkeley, and the machines have quietly taken over the work of thinking. A colleague's best idea came from a chatbot and she cannot tell the difference. A young woman at the next table is in love...
Reversal Causality
A Novel
Eli Kaplan is seventy-two years old, living alone in a duplex in St. Paul, and he has just published a novel that knows something it shouldn't.
Told in reverse, from the quiet discipline of old age back through the collapse of a marriage, a breakdown that left doctors with no explanation...
The Inventory
A Novel
In June 2021, Arthur Holm, a forty-four-year-old psychiatrist with a practice in Marin County and a marriage that ended quietly years before, walks away from his life and sits down on a bench in Berkeley's Civic Center. He does not lose his mind. He does not hit bottom. He chooses.
Soul on a Leash
Your dog knows something about you that you don't
Your dog knows something about you that you don't.
Watch closely. The dog who can't be left alone. The dog you rescue compulsively. The dog who reflects back your anxiety, your need for control, your hunger for a love you never learned to ask for. Dogs do not lie...
The AI Writer's Blind Spots
15 Ways Your AI Co-Writer Gets It Wrong and How to Catch Every One
Your AI can write a chapter in minutes. It can also invent facts, forget what it wrote two pages ago, and slowly drift away from your voice without telling you.
These aren't rare glitches. They're built into how the technology works. And if you don't know what to look for...
The AI Label Effect
You Loved It Until You Knew
A poem about autumn makes a reader cry. Then someone mentions it was written by AI.
The same words. The same line breaks. The same image of bare branches holding their shape after everything else has gone.
But the tears stop.
Something closes.
The experience reverses, not because the writing...
42 Things You Must Know About AI
A No-Nonsense Guide to the Technology Running Your Life
AI is in your phone, your email, your job, your doctor's office, and quite possibly your toaster. It writes code, generates video, passes bar exams, and argues with your mother about seating charts. It's a trillion-dollar industry that showed up faster than anyone expected, and most people still don't understand...
The Control Beneath Care
Understanding the Shadow Side of Selflessness in Intimate Relationships
You chose someone good. Kind. Generous. Everyone says so.
So why do you feel so alone? Why does gratitude sit in your chest like guilt? Why can't you explain what's wrong when nothing is obviously wrong?
This book names what many people sense but cannot articulate: how selflessness, when driven...
The Digital Persona
You built the persona. Now it's wearing you.
You post something honest and rewrite it three times. You check the metrics before breakfast. You catch yourself narrating your own life as if someone is watching. And the unsettling part isn't that someone is. It's that no one needs to be. You've internalized the audience.
The Digital Persona examines...
Alexithymia in Relationships
Understanding Love When Words Fall Short
You love someone. You know you do. But when they ask what you're feeling, the words won't come. Or you're the one asking, searching their face for something you can't find, wondering if the silence means you're not enough.
Alexithymia affects how millions of people experience and express emotion...
After Effort
Work, worth, and meaning after effort — and after AI
Something strange happens when the work gets easier. Instead of relief, there's a low hum of wrongness. A suspicion that if it didn't cost you something, it doesn't count.
After Effort names what most people feel but can't articulate: that ease feels like cheating, that rest feels stolen, and that...
AI and the Human Soul
A Journey Through Technology, Consciousness, and Sacred Connection
You are living through the most profound transformation in human history, and most days it feels like just another Tuesday.
As artificial intelligence grows more sophisticated, we face urgent questions that philosophers and theologians once debated only in theory: What makes us human? Can something that mimics connection?
It Wasn't You
Understanding the Hidden Struggle of Late-Diagnosed ADHD in Women
You were never lazy. You were exhausted.
For years, you carried a story about yourself: scattered, unreliable, trying hard but somehow never quite getting it right. You built your life around what felt like a character flaw, apologizing in advance, setting low expectations, always reaching toward a version of yourself...
How Healthy Love Feels
A Guide to Recognizing the Quiet Peace of a Relationship That Works
You survived something you may not yet have the words for. A relationship that trained your nervous system to mistake chaos for passion, silence for punishment, and your own needs for burdens. You learned to shrink, to apologize, to scan every room for danger before you could breathe...