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Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror by Alex Grass

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https://www.amazon.com/Infernal-Tramps-Tales-Weird-Terror/dp/B0H3QQ2J9Q

A boy discovers his father’s oracular grotesque in a secret dungeon below their family funeral home.

An antique spiked collar transforms Philadelphia into a city that worships a dead dog.

A video game dominates the market for years and then disappears, except for one man’s memories of its horrors.

A mother with a trunkful of hungry, inhuman babies tracks down the family that abandoned them.

The warden of a penal colony offers to pardon a murderer, but only if the inmate can find the antidote to the poison wine the warden gave him.

A wealthy young woman receives a surgical implant that delivers more than just a shapely body.

Step into a world of fleshly titillation and fresh terror, a dimension of blood and consequence. But buyer beware! Crack the spine and these dark tales are not so easily forgotten. And you may find yourself changing into a beast of insatiable hunger, a tormented sinner, a lunatic on the fringe.

Heed this warning, that what once is read cannot be unread. Turn back now, if you can, or else become one of the…

Infernal Tramps!

About the author

Alex Grass was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three kids.

Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World by Melissa Swift

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Great-Work-Fast-Changing-World/dp/1394377495

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Navigate the weird, chaotic world of modern work, no matter your position

While there’s no shortage of advice on being amazing or avoiding burnout, what if you simply want to get things done in a workplace that feels increasingly impossible? Effective is here to help you get your job done well without losing your mind. Drawing from up-to-date research and provocative interviews with employees across industries and levels, renowned people consultant Melissa Swift offers a positive, well-illuminated path through the dark forest of destabilizing workplace changes.

Effective provides readers with:

Strategies to triumph amid four trends making work tough today: work intensification, emotional inflection, hyper-transparency, and sheer chaos

Practical, research-backed approaches to improve their daily work life, from entry-level employees to CEOs

Tips for maintaining competence in a working world seemingly designed to make you feel incompetent

Insights on how to make sure your personal sources of effectiveness don’t get disrupted by technological change

Lessons to be learned from jobs where you simply cannot screw up, such as firefighters and air traffic controllers, and how to apply them to a corporate environment

Effective delivers useful content for every level of seniority, teaching readers a new paradigm-shifting approach to thrive in the modern world of work.

About the author

Melissa Swift is a leading voice on how organizations, teams, and individuals can succeed in an ever more challenging world of work. As founder and CEO of Anthrome Insight, she is a consultant and keynote speaker helping organizations make their people successful in chaotic times. She has held leadership roles at Capgemini, Mercer, Korn Ferry, and Deloitte, and is the author of Effective: How to Do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World (2026) and Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (2023).

Melissa’s work balances humanism and pragmatism, and is powered by analytics and research. She specializes in complex topics like the human side of digital transformation and the changing face of C-suite leadership.

Melissa is a member of the MIT Sloan Management Review’s Editorial Board, and one of their most widely-read columnists. She has been quoted numerous times in publications including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times, and has appeared on NPR. Melissa was named to the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar Class; Work Here Now appeared on awards lists from McKinsey and Porchlight Books. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Melissa lives in New York City with her husband, daughter, and neurotic beagle mix.

Financial Fortress by Stephen Powell

https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Fortress-Stephen-Powell/dp/B0H4862V2S

A sudden medical crisis or market crash can destroy decades of hard work in an instant. Are you building a financial plan that only works when everything goes right?

In January 2022, financial professional Stephen Powell walked into the gym for a routine morning workout. Moments later, an aortic dissection caused him to collapse, paralyzing his left side, stripping away his speech, and leaving him with less than a 1% chance of survival. He survived by God’s grace, but he woke up to a harrowing realization: He was the sole breadwinner, and his traditional financial plan had no backup for a real-life crisis.

This life altering experience exposed a massive gap in modern financial literacy. Most people are expertly taught how to accumulate money, but they are never taught how to structure it. They blindly follow the standard formula buy stocks, maximize the 401(k), trust the process only to find themselves walking straight into the “Accumulation Trap.”

In Financial Fortress, Powell shares his deeply personal journey and strips away traditional financial jargon to reveal how wealthy families truly protect, access, and transfer their money. This book is an architectural blueprint for the everyday family provider who carries heavy responsibilities and realizes that a high income alone is not the same as security.

Through practical frameworks and eye-opening illustrations, Powell maps out the Four Pillars of a Financial Fortress: Protection, Growth, Control, and Legacy. You will learn how to transition from simple accumulation to true financial architecture, giving every dollar a distinct job.

Stop managing your future with hope and optimism alone. Build a system. Achieve clarity. Protect the people you love.

Windows into Advent by Dr. Tom Kinnan

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-into-Advent-Dr-Kinnan-ebook/dp/B0H3D13BZG

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In this inspiring collection of Christmas devotionals, Dr. Tom Kinnan invites readers to look beyond the lights, gifts, traditions, and distractions of the season to rediscover the heart of Christmas Jesus Christ.

Through personal stories, biblical insights, and thought-provoking reflections, each chapter explores themes such as patience, trust, hope, generosity, forgiveness, faith, and the miracle of God’s love revealed through the birth of Christ. From shepherds and angels to Joseph, the Magi, and the manger itself, these devotional messages bring familiar elements of the Christmas story to life in fresh and meaningful ways.

Whether you are celebrating Advent, seeking spiritual encouragement during the holiday season, or looking for a daily devotional to deepen your relationship with God, this book offers practical wisdom and heartfelt inspiration for believers of all ages.

Inside you’ll discover:

Encouraging Christmas devotionals rooted in Scripture

Personal stories and relatable life lessons

Fresh perspectives on the birth of Christ and its meaning today

Reflections on faith, hope, trust, patience, and God’s grace

Daily inspiration to help you experience a more Christ centered Christmas

Warm, uplifting, and spiritually enriching, this book is a reminder that the greatest gift of Christmas is not found beneath a tree, but in the Savior who came to transform lives and offer eternal hope.

Take a journey through the Christmas season and rediscover the wonder, substance, and joy of God’s greatest gift. Jesus Christ.

Cold Ground: A Jack Decker Story (Jack Decker Series Book 1) by Michael Jacquard

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Ground-Jack-Decker-Story-ebook/dp/B0GSW5TDCT

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Jack Decker, 48 — former U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant, CIA SAD/Ground Branch operative — has retired to Garrison Falls, Vermont. When the Vega Syndicate moves in and a teenage girl named Lily Marsh disappears, he’s pulled back into a world he thought he’d left.