There is a kind of tiredness ambition does not explain. For readers who appear capable while privately feeling stretched thin, this book explores productivity, boundaries, confidence, and emotional resilience without turning life into another project. It looks at the pressure to be visible, available, and always improving, especially when work becomes the safest place to feel valuable. Through honest reflection, it examines perfectionism, approval seeking, and the quiet fear of slowing dow...

Tuberculosis never disappeared equally. While wealthy nations reduced infection rates through antibiotics and public health infrastructure, millions elsewhere continued facing overcrowded clinics, interrupted treatment, and preventable deaths. The disease survived wherever medicine remained unevenly distributed. This account investigates the political history of tuberculosis treatment from the discovery of effective antibiotics to the rise of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Pharmaceutic...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith introduces his galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But r...

Bestselling author Wesley Chu is back with a thrilling wuxia-inspired fantasy that questions what happens when a prophecy goes badly wrong.Prophecies don't make heroes: they only choose them. When Chosen One Jian falls short of his prophesied quest, he must find his own path to greatness.The prophecy is clear: Wen Jian is the Chosen One, born to defeat the immortal Eternal Khan and save the kingdom. The only problem is that the prophecy is wrong.Jian has been raised...

In To Love a Wolf, Wesley Heffron presents a captivating tale where humor intertwines with high stakes in a love story that showcases the triumph of good over evil. Seiko at thirty-five-year-old is determined to rescue his beloved wife, Lupa, from the clutches of the wealthy and obsessive James. This millionaire believes that his fortune and force can win Lupa's heart, but Seiko knows that true love cannot be bought. As he embarks on a dangerous quest, Seiko encounters a diverse c...

A “superb fantasy saga” (Helene Wecker) of martial arts and magic, about what happens when a prophesied hero is not the chosen one after all—but has to work with a band of unlikely allies to save the kingdom anyway, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of Tao“An ambitious and touching exploration of disillusionment in faith, tradition, and family—a glorious reinvention of fantasy and wuxia tropes.”—Naomi Novik, Ne...

This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. DoLs are everyday materials that illuminate the organisation of ordinary lives and their social worlds.Addressing key methodological questions in autoethnography, it brings together critical socio-cultural autoethnography (CSA) and DoLs through the innovative use of facet methodology (FM). This approach enables analytical enga...

United in their commitment to faithful orthodoxy, scholars on both sides of this controversial doctrine invite you to consider a question central to understanding God's justice: What is the true nature of hell?Throughout history, most Christians have believed that the lost will endure eternal suffering in hell. In recent decades, however, a growing number of evangelicals have questioned this view and embraced alternatives such as conditional immortality (a...

DETECTIVES COLLIDE Volume 1: ProceduralNew York Times bestselling authors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith both love writing detective stories.In five huge volumes, Detectives Collide bulges with 100 detective short stories, novelettes, and novellas. Fifty by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Fifty by Dean Wesley Smith. Each volume holds ten stories from each author, divided loosely into five topics.With over 600 pages of great detective ...

Starting into a brand-new series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith asks a simple question: What happens if ghosts can fight crime and bad guys?Just fifteen minutes after Dr. Jewel Kelly meets Deputy Sheriff Tommy Ralston, they both die. They simply become ghosts, hanging around their own death scene in the mountains of Montana, waiting for something to happen. But even as ghosts they find each other really attractive.In life, they both worked to help people. I...

Plant medicine is real medicine and it always has been. Chahta imaiyvhohmi (It's the way of the Chahta). This is the first modern exploration of the plant medicine used by contemporary Chahta people (Choctaw in English). It draws on traditional knowledge held and practiced by the authors, as taught to them by their elders and passed down through generations of healers and everyday people who found the medicine they needed in their surroundings. Herbalists Summer Wesley and Dr. Faith G. Har...