A Curse of Flame and Ash by Kaitlyn L. Hill (Realm of Chaos series 1)
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 4.3 mb
Overview: Mortal and Fae must join once more,
To seal the peace to which they swore...

Unwanted. Unloved. Unladylike. Princess Elowyn has long resigned herself to being an outcast in her own home. Desperate to escape the Rhyddean Court and her family’s relentless cruelty, she hatches a plan to escape — but when Elowyn’s mortality becomes a bargaining chip in a marital treaty with the Fae, she finds herself leaving Court with her parents’ blessing.

A blessing that comes with a condition: Elowyn must aid and abet the Fae’s final downfall.

Newly arrived in the Fire Court as the betrothed of the fearsome High King Aramis, Elowyn’s mission is to retrieve the spell book that is secreted within his castle walls. But when fire ignites in both their souls, Elowyn’s planned treason threatens to betray far more than a single court...or a single heart.
Genre: Fiction > Romance


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Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness by Miriam Grossman
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 827.8 MB
Overview: Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth say they’re transgender, and we—their parents, teachers, therapists, and doctors—are supposed to agree with their self-diagnosis and take a back seat as they make the most consequential decision of their lives: to alter their bodies in order to, we are told, “align” them with their minds.

Medical, educational, and government authorities advise us to support the “gender journeys” of still developing kids, including medical interventions with poor evidence of long-term improvement.

This would not be acceptable in any other field of medicine. Indeed, the treatments our medical authorities and Washington call “crucial” and “life-saving” have been banned in progressive Sweden, Finland, and Britain.

Dr. Miriam Grossman is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose practice consists of trans-identified youth and their families. In Lost in TransNation, she implores parents to reject the advice of gender experts and politicians and trust their guts—their parental instincts—in the face of an onslaught of ideologically driven misinformation that steers them and their children toward risky decisions they may end up mourning for the rest of their lives.

The beliefs that male and female are human inventions; that the sex of a newborn is arbitrarily “assigned”; and that as a result the child requires “affirmation” through medical interventions—these ideas are divorced from reality and therefore hazardous, especially to children. The core belief—that biology can and should be denied—is a repudiation of reality and a mockery of what hard science teaches about being male and female.

Dr. Grossman believes that parents know their child best; they especially know if they have a son or daughter. But currently in our country when it comes to gender identity, everyone knows better than mom and dad. Schools enable students to live double lives—Patrick at home, Patti at school. Activists tell kids their loving homes are “unsafe” when parents voice doubts about the child’s new identity. For refusing to see their son as their daughter, parents might be reported to protective services, a development that can lead to a family’s destruction.

Lost in TransNation arms parents with the ammunition to avoid, or, if necessary, fight what many families describe as the most difficult challenge of their lives. Parents will learn what to say and how—at home, at school, and if necessary, to police when they appear at the door.

“Don’t be blindsided like so many parents I know,” warns Grossman, “be proactive and get educated. Feel prepared and confident to discuss trans, nonbinary, or whatever your child brings to the dinner table.” Whether it’s the “trans is as common as red hair” claim, or the “I’m not your son, I’m your daughter” proclamation, or the “do you prefer a live son or a dead daughter" threat, says Grossman, no family is immune, and every parent must be prepared.

No child is born in the wrong body, Dr. Grossman reassures us, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing. Whether you’re facing a gender identity battle in your home right now, or want to prevent one, you need this book to guide you and your loved ones out of the madness.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction


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The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised by James Pethokoukis
Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 642.9 MB
Overview: Discover the surprising case for how conservatism can help us achieve the epic sci-fi future we were promised.

America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more wonders lay just over the horizon: clean and infinite energy, a cure for cancer, computers and robots as humanity’s great helpers, and space colonies. (Also, of course, flying cars.) Science fiction, from The Jetsons to Star Trek, would become fact.

But as we moved into the late 20th century, we grew cautious, even cynical, about what the future held and our ability to shape it. Too many of us saw only the threats from rapid change. The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the Great Downshift in technological progress and economic growth, followed by decades of economic stagnation, downsized dreams, and a popular culture fixated on catastrophe: AI that will take all our jobs if it doesn’t kill us first, nuclear war, climate chaos, plague and the zombie apocalypse. We are now at risk of another half-century of making the same mistakes and pushing a pro-progress future into the realm of impossibility.

But American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economic policy expert and long-time CNBC contributor James Pethokoukis argues that there’s still hope. We can absolutely turn things around—if we the people choose to dream and act. How dare we delay or fail to deliver for ourselves and our children.

With groundbreaking ideas and sharp analysis, Pethokoukis provides a detailed roadmap to a fantastic future filled with incredible progress and prosperity that is both optimistic and realistic. Through an exploration of culture, economics, and history, The Conservative Futurist tells the fascinating story of what went wrong in the past and what we need to do today to finally get it right. Using the latest economic research and policy analysis, as well as insights from top economists, historians, and technologists, Pethokoukis reveals that the failed futuristic visions of the past were totally possible. And they still are. If America is to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, take full advantage of emerging tech from generative AI to CRISPR to reusable rockets, and launch itself into a shining tomorrow, it must again become a fully risk-taking, future-oriented society. It’s time for America to embrace the future confidently, act boldly, and take that giant leap forward.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction


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Family Demons by A. L. Sestier
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 2 mb
Overview: Firioal society is full of great families with powerful magic. Their magic is tied to their craft, and there are no greater papermakers than the Dotti. When their long-lost daughter returns, she explodes into society – quite literally. Fierce, beautiful, and enchanted, Ophelia is fighting to save her sister from a deadly curse. But when magic is gifted to you by Demons, your soul is all you have to trade for power.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy


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