# encouraging (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover encouraging. Page: Feed: --- ## [Kin](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/kin-9781069754646/) _2026-08-22 · Peggy Kurkowski · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Kin is a compelling sociological survey that argues that parenting and childhood formed the foundation of civilization. Nam Nguyen’s compelling historical survey Kin argues that civilizations are built and sustained by caring for children. Moving from prehistoric to modern times and drawing on insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, and psychology, the book asserts… ## [Brian's Run](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/brians-run/) _2026-08-22 · Meg Nola · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ An affable, grieving husband pursues various outlets of distraction and healing in the emotive novel Brian’s Run . A grieving widower struggles with his emotional conflicts in Howard Cincotta’s absorbing novel Brian’s Run . In 2005, Brian tries to process the death of his wife, Nicola, following a car accident the year before. Nicola’s absence is a void; beyond his numbed feelings of shock… ## [Dark Ugly Places](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/dark-ugly-places/) _2026-08-21 · Leah Block · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Dark Ugly Places is an intricate thriller about women’s rage. A widowed mother seeks revenge against the man who killed her husband in Ashley Mansour’s suspenseful novel Dark Ugly Places . When Nicola’s daughter Emmy is a toddler, a hit-and-run accident kills her husband and leaves Nicola disabled. Later, when Emmy is fourteen, Nicola runs into the perpetrator at a fancy Los Angeles hotel,… ## [Autumn Leaves](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/autumn-leaves/) _2026-08-21 · Caroline Goldberg Igra · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ Autumn Leaves is a hope-filled memoir about a woman’s search for genealogical meaning. Sharon Beth’s gripping memoir Autumn Leaves is about her complete rewriting of her personal history following shocking DNA test results. About questioning the information that children are sold as truth and made to accept without question, the book muses, “When one truth shatters, it leads you to question… ## [The Shareg](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-shareg/) _2026-08-21 · Eileen Gonzalez · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Though backdropped by battles, spiritual and moral concerns dominate life in the fraught island landscape of the historical novel The Shareg . Political and religious upheavals disrupt island life in A. G. Rivett’s immersive historical novel The Shareg . Eleven years ago, Dhion tried to escape from his personal failures. He ended up being plucked from the contemporary world and deposited on… ## [Don’t Put the Martinis in the Steam Iron](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/dont-put-the-martinis-in-the-steam-iron/) _2026-08-21 · Meg Nola · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Don’t Put the Martinis in the Steam Iron is a lively memoir set amid the changes of the early 1960s that recalls a different kind of women’s liberation. Susan K. Darby’s engaging memoir Don’t Put the Martinis in the Steam Iron is about her spirited adventures in the early 1960s. After graduating from college, Darby contemplated her future opportunities. The options for middle-class young… ## [Before the Emergence](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/before-the-emergence/) _2026-08-21 · Katelynn Watkins · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ The potential for supernatural cataclysms is real in the fantastical thriller Before the Emergence , in which a president’s true enemies are concealed in layers of shadow and deceit. Fate, duty, and desire clash as an ordinary woman fights to keep the tenuous peace between worlds in Adel Bin Tamim’s supernatural thriller Before the Emergence . Jasmine holds two of the toughest jobs in the… ## [Productivity for Women](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/productivity-for-women/) _2026-08-21 · Taona Ian Chirumarara · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ An encouraging self-help guide, Productivity for Women encourages women to break from the status quo and reclaim their agency. Laura Bell Palmer’s systemic self-help book Productivity For Women seeks to deconstruct conventional assumptions about women’s work. Challenging gendered assumptions about personal responsibilities, this book addresses factors like invisible labor, uneven emotional… ## [God Exists](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/god-exists/) _2026-08-21 · John M. Murray · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★☆☆☆ Faith is about more than reading the Bible, asserts the testimonial tract God Exists : It’s about connecting with others and understanding and implementing the Bible’s core messages with one’s whole heart. In Sylke Claridge’s earnest religion book God Exists , evidence pulled from modernity is used to urge the faithful and faithless alike to embrace the messages of the Bible. Designed for… ## [The Retire Sooner Method](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-retire-sooner-method/) _2026-08-20 · Joseph S. Pete · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★★ Combining practical financial advice with research into what defines happiness and tips about living well, The Retire Sooner Method is an inspiring guide. Financial planner Wes Moss’s illuminating financial planning guide The Retire Sooner Method is about amassing wealth toward retirement. About stretching out one’s income, saving for happiness in retirement, and finding bliss, this… ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zcdHAd5bbT6f) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Better at Life](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/better-at-life/) _2026-08-20 · Joseph S. Pete · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ The encouraging self-help guide Better at Life is about making the best decisions to achieve a meaningful life while doing rewarding work. Chris Mullen’s illuminating self-help book Better at Life is about finding fulfillment via work-life balance. Calling for a work-life negotiation to achieve one’s career goals while maintaining a strong quality of life, this book suggests means of… ## [Lies and Spies](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/lies-and-spies/) _2026-08-20 · Ian Dailey · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ Lies and Spies is a suspenseful historical thriller with a twist: Its hero has split personalities. In Gary Kidney’s zany thriller Lies and Spies , an American spy is called upon to pursue the last vestiges of the Nazi regime and keep whatever he finds out of Soviet hands. In 1946, World War II has ended, but not for deep-cover agents like Fred, whose alter ego and split personality Zelly… ## [MSP to MVP](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/msp-to-mvp/) _2026-08-20 · Taona Ian Chirumarara · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Targeting the structural deficiencies within the managed IT services sector, MSP to MVP is an actionable business guide. Chris Day’s structured leadership guide MSP to MVP is about transforming managed service providers into indispensable, strategic business partners. Reframing customer success as a core operating discipline for information technology managed service providers (MSPs), this… ## [Emergence](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/emergence-9798901800317/) _2026-08-20 · Joseph S. Pete · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★☆ Emergence is a a useful general primer on AI that forwards technical explanations of the human mind and technology. Bob Burgin’s speculative technology book Emergence explains how artificial intelligence came to be and imagines where it’s going. Structured as a history amid a broader philosophical inquiry, this book considers how AI was developed, how the brain learns, and how AI learns. Its… ## [The Porcelain Heart](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-porcelain-heart/) _2026-08-19 · Mari Carlson · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ A clear chronicle of grief, The Porcelain Heart is a mother’s memoir about her first year without her son. Marcy Kelly’s probing memoir The Porcelain Heart is about the year after her son died. Soon after forty-five-year-old Michael opted not to come to a family gathering, he was found dead in his apartment. But Kelly’s ability to grieve was delayed by practical tasks like informing people… ## [Stolen Inheritance](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/stolen-inheritance/) _2026-08-19 · Michele Sharpe · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ A revealing book that aims to help family members protect their vulnerable loved ones, in particular in California, Stolen Inheritance is an insightful legal guide. Michael Hackard’s disquieting legal guide Stolen Inheritance addresses the principles and implications of California’s elder laws. Noting the financial risks faced by elderly family members, including exploitative people who try… ## [The Line of the Ball](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-line-of-the-ball/) _2026-08-19 · Joseph S. Pete · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ The Line of the Ball is an intriguing memoir and leadership guide that mines general lessons for life and business from a healthcare founder’s varied experiences. Beh Chun Chuan’s sage business memoir The Line of the Ball concerns how polo shaped his life in business. The book recounts lessons learned on the polo grounds and how they helped Beh lead the BP Healthcare Group in Malaysia. It… ## [Essentials Vol. 2](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/essentials-vol-2/) _2026-08-18 · Peter Dabbene · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★★★ A mathematician and his ally combat an alien plot to take over Earth in the gripping graphic novel Essentials Vol. 2 . A human scientist teams up with an alien to hold off an enemy that wants to absorb the minds of Earth’s inhabitants in Luke Arnold and Chris Wyatt’s grand graphic novel Essentials Vol. 2 . Pax, a mathematician, allies himself with Buttons, an alien refugee from a collective… ## [A Journey of Insights](https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/a-journey-of-insights/) _2026-08-18 · John M. Murray · Foreword Reviews - All Reviews_ ★★★☆☆ A thoughtful, reflective memoir, A Journey of Insights mines general leadership guidance from a long career in multiple fields. James G. Ellis’s candid memoir and leadership guide A Journey of Insights models being attentive to others as a path to professional success. Arguing that “listening to voices around you throughout life is the key to success,” this anecdote-centered book reflects…