Kader's Quest

Middle school student Kader is on the precipice of the turbulent path to adulthood. Join him on this journey of discovery and healing through dazzling art replete with puzzles, hidden images, symbolism, reflection and silence.

Award-winning artist Nadir Balan brings this deeply human story to life with stunning illustrations that invite readers to feel every emotion alongside Kader as he uncovers his past and searches for belonging. Written by psychiatrist Dr. Yener Balan and psychotherapist Duygu Balan, this graphic novel embraces raw vulnerability and authentic experiences, creating a story that feels real, digestible, and powerfully relatable.

Kader's Quest offers behavioral health specialists an invaluable therapeutic tool that resonates with young adults facing similar struggles with family dynamics, anxiety, friendship, bullies, and major life transitions. The carefully crafted narrative allows readers to process their own complex emotions through Kader's journey, helping them feel seen in their experiences. For professionals working with teens who struggle to articulate their feelings, this graphic novel provides a meaningful conversation starter grounded in evidence-based principles, making it a compelling read and a powerful clinical resource.

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Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology:

 

Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology:

A Dream Officer's Playbook for Tech Equity in Disability and Aging Services

by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown

What does freedom actually look like for someone who has been told what they cannot do their whole life?

That question lives at the heart of Tech Equity: Freedom Through Enabling Technology by Precious "Preciosa" Myers-Brown. It is a book about what becomes possible when a whole community -- providers, families, Direct Support Professionals, policymakers, and the people being served -- decides that the way things have always been done is not good enough anymore.

The care system we are working inside was built in the 80s, way before we had the tools we have today. Imagine finding a pager from that era and thinking it still works -- then spending years looking for the payphone you need to go with it. We honor what was built with what we had. And now it is time for all of us to move forward together.

This is not a book about technology replacing people. It is about technology giving people back their time, their dignity, and their choices -- and giving the communities around them the tools to actually support that. DSPs who are burned out. Families who are exhausted. People with disabilities who deserve more than a system running on assumptions from 40 years ago. The blueprint is here. The community that changes this already exists. This book is for all of you.

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The Design of Perfection: 300 Million Years of Silence

   

The Design of Perfection:

300 Million Years of Silence

What if the most sophisticated technology on Earth is not hidden in a lab in Silicon Valley, but hovering right before your eyes?

Meet the dragonfly. It has five eyes. It sees the world 200 times faster than you do. It hunts with a 97 percent success rate, making lions and great white sharks look like amateurs. And it does all of this on a battery of just 0.0001 watts.

But here is the real mystery: It has not changed in 300 million years.

In this provocative journey through biology, engineering, and cosmic philosophy, Jure Ivankovic challenges everything we think we know about life on Earth. Is the dragonfly a biological fluke, or a message in a bottle waiting for a civilization advanced enough to read it?

The answers are not in the fossils. They are in the code.

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Kriegsmarine

 

Kriegsmarine 

By Ralph L. Myers

What if the most dangerous battlefield is not the Atlantic, but the bond between two boys whose lives are destined to meet on opposite sides of war?

Kriegsmarine opens not with battle, but with memory: an older Gerhardt “Gerry” Kroner returns to his childhood home in Hartzstein, Pennsylvania, and the house itself becomes a portal. Every room, smell, and object pulls him backward into a German American boyhood shaped by immigrant families, strict parents, and the fierce, almost inseparable friendship he shared with Karl Schuour. Their small-town world is vivid with autumn streets, schoolyard competitions, bicycles, swings, and the constant need to outdo one another—a rivalry the story makes clear will become both “a blessing - and a curse.”

From there, the novel expands into something much larger than nostalgia. Gerry and Karl grow up, follow different paths, and are carried into World War II, with Gerry serving in the U.S. Navy and Karl drawn into Germany’s naval machine. The story’s emotional engine lies in that split. One boyhood friendship is stretched across nationality, loyalty, and history itself, until the competition of childhood becomes a deadly adult collision between commanders at sea. The book places Karl at the center of the German U-boat campaign as captain of U-53, while Gerry develops anti-submarine strategies for Allied convoys—turning memory, rivalry, and warfare into one continuous thread.

It carries some of the pressure-cooker tension associated with classic submarine war dramas, but its true pulse is personal. Karl is not framed as a simple emblem of the Reich; he is trapped inside a collapsing moral world, horrified by Nazi brutality and torn between duty, love, and conscience. That conflict sharpens when his wife and children become bound up in a desperate attempt to flee, and the war stops being abstract strategy and becomes a question of whether a man can remain human inside a machine built for obedience and destruction.

What makes Kriegsmarine matter is that it refuses to separate war from memory: the swing in the yard, the old house, the buried keepsakes, and the childhood dares all echo inside the sonar-dark waters of the Atlantic.

Sometimes history’s cruelest weapon is not hatred, but the way it turns love, loyalty, and friendship into opposing flags.

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Twenty Last Dates

In this laugh-out-loud dark comedy about modern romance, one woman over 55 survives twenty truly horrible dates and bravely reports back from the digital dating jungle.

Whether you’re 25 or 75, you’ll recognize the madness. Swipe left on sanity and right on disaster in this brutally funny, occasionally cringeworthy, razor- sharp tale about searching for connection in the age of apps. When you're old enough to know better but still hopeful enough to try.

There’s the man who still lives with his wife (for “convenience”), the first date who delivers a full medical history before the coffee arrives, and the gentleman whose impressive stories collapse the moment the check arrives. Add in decade-old photos, creative truths, and enough red flags to decorate a parade, and you have dating in our time.

Smart, biting, and painfully funny, this book proves that sometimes the only winning move in modern love is to laugh... and order dessert alone.

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How Gobbly Gobbler and Friends Worked Together to Make a Delicious Dinner

   

How Gobbly Gobbler and Friends Worked Together to Make a Delicious Dinner

By Kathleen Whitham

What if the Thanksgiving table had feelings—and a few ego problems to sort out before dinner?

In a cozy kitchen “over the river and through the woods,” eleven lively participants gather with one shared mission: create the best Thanksgiving meal possible. But this is no ordinary cooking crew. Gobbly Gobbler is large, confident, and a little too aware of it. Mashed Potato believes he’s the most appreciated dish on the menu. Saucy Cranberry prides herself on color and flair. Sweet P. boasts about her culinary greatness, while the Pie Sisters squabble over attention. Cornbread Stuffing is nervous. Green Bean worries about being overlooked. And Gravy? Gravy insists, again and again, “I’ve got you covered.”

The kitchen becomes a stage where personalities clash before ingredients ever do. Size competes with popularity. Flashiness challenges simplicity. Some fear the dark; others fear being ordinary. It’s a dinner lineup that feels surprisingly human.

The turning point arrives not with a recipe, but with a realization. Sweet T reminds the group what Thanksgiving is truly about—gratitude, humility, and the unseen contributions that make a whole greater than its parts. One by one, the characters shift from boasting to thankfulness, acknowledging farmers, gardens, grains, family, and even one another. The meal becomes more than food; it becomes collaboration made visible.

Visually, the world is bright and inviting—anthropomorphic pies and potatoes perched on countertops, a proud turkey standing center stage, and eventually a beautifully set feast that reflects collective effort. Beneath the playful illustrations lies a gentle tension: can a group full of strong personalities choose teamwork over pride?

The story carries the warm, ensemble charm of a holiday special, but its heartbeat is universal. It invites young readers to see themselves in the green bean who feels unnoticed, the stuffing who feels afraid, or even the turkey who wants to lead. It asks what happens when comparison gives way to cooperation.

In the end, the most delicious part of any meal isn’t what’s on the plate—it’s the gratitude and teamwork that made it possible.

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MANUFACTURED MINDS: The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

   

MANUFACTURED MINDS:

The Invisible Architecture of Algorithmic Control and the Art of Opting Out

They didn't target your child's attention. They targeted the window before your child could defend it.

Internal documents unsealed in 2026 reveal how major platforms segment children by "age of acquisition" — tracking lifetime revenue projections that are three to five times higher for children captured before age ten. Their internal term for these children is not "users."

It is native integrations.

Your child wasn't exposed to the algorithm. Your child was installed by it. Before identity formed. Before the prefrontal cortex could push back. Before you knew there was a window — and that the window was closing.

Screen time limits don't work. The platforms' own suppressed research proves it: by month six, restrictions return usage to within five percent of baseline. The parental controls weren't built to protect your child. They were built to protect the platform from the appearance of not protecting your child.

Manufactured Minds gives you what the platforms spent billions making sure you'd never have:

• The truth about the "installation window" — and how to close it before the machine opens it
• Age-adapted protocols for every stage: Foundations (4–9), Awakening (10–13), Sovereignty (14–17)
• The Cognitive Immune System — the one capacity the algorithm's entire business model depends on your child never developing
• The Family Freedom Compass — a shared household tool that turns your liberation into theirs
• The Algorithm Spotter, the Choice Game, the Maker Hour, and the Identity Journal — practices that build minds the feed cannot predict

You started this book reaching for your phone. You will finish it reaching for your child's hand.

The platforms called your children native integrations.

This book turns them into native immunities.

K. R. Strand — Researcher, rebel, and survivor of the attention economy.

Your thoughts aren't yours anymore. They're predicted, shaped, and sold — every scroll, pause, and hesitation harvested to keep you hooked, divided, and compliant. Platforms don't recommend content. They engineer your reality. And they're terrified you'll notice. Manufactured Minds is the book that makes you notice — then hands you the escape keys.

THIS IS NOT ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT SCREEN TIME. Every chapter answers the question the previous one planted. Every exercise compounds. By the final page, you won't have merely read about opting out — you'll have performed your own escape.

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