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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Marcus thought the worst thing in his life was being alone. He was wrong. After his relationship quietly falls apart, Marcus finds himself sitting in his apartment, surrounded by silence he helped create. The conversations he avoided. The distance he let grow. The version of himself he slowly became. And then there's the corner. At first, it's nothing. Just a shadow. Something easy to ignore.But the longer he sits with it. the harder it becomes to pretend it isn't there. Watching.Waiting.Understanding more about him than he wants to admit. As Marcus spirals through memory, regret, and the quiet truth of who he's been, he's forced to confront something far more terrifying than being alone: The possibility that he was never alone to begin with. The Thing in the Corner is a psychological, slow-burning exploration of avoidance, self-deception, and the quiet ways we disappear from our own lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Axiom AI is the fastest-growing enterprise AI company in the country. Six billion dollar valuation. Fourteen hundred employees. A CEO named Vaughn Kessler whose entire management philosophy is one sentence: My job is to apply pressure. That's it. That's the whole job.What none of them know is that Vaughn has built a second AI. A secret one. It runs silently inside the company, ingesting every Slack message, every badge swipe, every keystroke. It assigns every employee a score between 1 and 100. The people who score high are called Barrels. The people who score low are called Ammunition. And in three weeks, three hundred and forty Ammunition are going to be escorted out of the building with cardboard boxes and a severance package, because the algorithm said so.Except the algorithm is wrong.Brian Wade is a custodian. Former Army logistics sergeant. ARC score: 12. He has been quietly photographing things for three months.Jada Simmons is a Tier 1 support rep. The invisible engine keeping a four-million-dollar client from walking. ARC score: 19. She has been documenting every single time her work was stolen and credited to someone else. She calls the folder The Receipts.Chris Chen is an intern. A first-generation college student who thinks in systems and can't stop seeing the architecture under the surface. ARC score: 8. The lowest in the company.When Brian finds Jada in the parking lot at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday night, the three of them are going to discover what the algorithm cannot see. They are going to build a counter-model. And at the next quarterly all-hands, in front of a thousand employees and the entire executive team, they are going to detonate every assumption this company has ever made about who matters and who doesn't.THE BARRELS is a corporate thriller about Silicon Valley's favorite metaphor and the three people it couldn't measure. For readers of The Circle, Severance, and The Warehouse. A novel about visibility, value, and the difference between the people who do the work and the people who hold it up for everyone to see."The world is full of people who take and people who make. The takers always look more important because they're the ones holding things up for everyone to see. But the makers are the ones who built everything they're holding." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Miles Crawford is the top car salesman at his dealership. He can read a customer before they close their door, close a deal before lunch, and hit his number every month. By every metric he's ever been given, he's winning.So why does he feel like he's starting over every thirty days?At a driving range on a Thursday evening, Miles meets Vernon Caldwell - a retired city councilman who moves through the world with an ease that money can't explain. Vernon never makes cold calls. Doors open before he knocks. People offer before he asks. And he's never sold anything in his life.Over nine sessions at the range, Vernon introduces Miles to a different kind of currency - one that can't be deposited, can't be counted, and can't be taken from you. It can only be given away. And the more you give it away, the more of it you have.The Range is a business parable about relationships, trust, and the invisible ledger that determines who gets the call, who gets the deal, and who gets remembered. It is a story for anyone who has ever closed a sale and wondered why it didn't feel like enough - and for anyone ready to build something that compounds long after the transaction is over.Includes nine actionable principles, reflection questions, and deposit challenges for individual readers, book clubs, and team workshops. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the underground battle rap circuit of Atlanta, they call it the Frequency - a force that lives inside the bars, something older than hip hop, older than the blues, older than anyone can name. When a rapper locks into it, the room changes. The air changes. People collapse. People seize. People die.Isaiah "Prophet" Drummond doesn't want to rap. But the Frequency lives in him, and every time he steps into the cipher, someone hits the floor. He can't control it. He can't explain it. And when the bodies start adding up and the wrong people start paying attention, he can't outrun it either.From the rust-and-religion warehouses of East Point to a secret summit where the truth about the old sound is finally spoken, Dead Bars is a dark, propulsive novel about the supernatural weight of Black musical tradition, the price of a gift you never asked for, and what happens when the thing that makes you great is the same thing that kills.Book One of The Frequency. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Grant Eriksen is a family law attorney in Houston with a clean record, a snake plant, and a life so quiet it echoes. Niesha Cole is a respiratory therapist and single mother of two who walks into his office with a color-coded binder, a custody case, and the kind of composure that comes from years of holding everything together alone.Her ex-husband is filing for expanded custody - not because he wants more time with their children, but because he wants to stop paying support. Grant takes the case. He wins the case. And somewhere between the courtroom and the ruling, between late-night phone calls that last too long and silences that say too much, the line between attorney and client disappears.What follows is not a fairy tale.It is the story of two people falling in love across the oldest line in America - a white man and a Black woman navigating the weight of a world that has opinions about who they are together. A world of stares in restaurants, polite discomfort at family dinners, and the quiet, grinding accumulation of moments that are too small to name and too heavy to carry. A world where love is real and still not enough.Set against the sprawl and humidity of Houston, Texas, Opposing Counsel is a novel about custody and code-switching, about binders and boundaries, about the difference between being needed and being loved. It is about a man who learns to see and a woman who is tired of teaching. About children who understand more than their parents realize. About a snake plant on a windowsill, still reaching toward light it cannot touch through the glass.They don't make it. But what they build - and what it teaches them - is worth every page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Naomi Cross drives for Lyft. Night shifts, mostly. The roads are emptier and the passengers talk less. She's a combat veteran with a Bronze Star, a prosthetic leg, and two years of sobriety she counts the way she counts everything - by the numbers, one day at a time. She picks up strangers and takes them where they need to go. She doesn't ask questions. She doesn't get involved. That's the deal.Tonight, the deal breaks.A ride request comes in from Seward Park. A woman in an expensive coat with a bag she won't let go of and hands that won't stop shaking. She gets in the backseat and starts watching the road behind them. She doesn't say much. She doesn't need to.Then the drone drops from the sky.The passenger's name is Celeste. Her husband is Vikram Rajan, the founder of a defense technology company that builds surveillance systems for the Pentagon. For three years, he has tracked her movements, monitored her sleep, and watched her through cameras she was told were for security. Tonight, she found the files that prove it. Tonight, she ran.Now two women are in a car on the back roads of the Pacific Northwest, hunted by military drones, a private security team, and a man who can see anyone, anywhere, at any time. Their only advantage: the mountains, the dark, and a driver who knows what it feels like to be the thing on the screen.Off Route is a literary thriller about surveillance as domestic violence, the distance between safety and freedom, and two strangers who choose each other's survival on the longest night of their lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Xavier Kelley lands at Hartsfield-Jackson with one bag and no plan. Expelled from Morehouse for a fight he can't explain and a rage he can't contain, he's been exiled to his father's Buckhead estate - a $4.2 million monument to a man who's never home.His father is Chief Xander Kelley, the most powerful law enforcement officer in Atlanta. Third-generation. Politically connected. Running the city's police department like a machine - one built on loyalty, silence, and relationships that blur the line between governance and corruption.His father's wife is Simone. Twenty-eight. From New Orleans. Smarter than anyone in the house gives her credit for, carrying a business plan in a locked room and a marriage she's been performing for two years. She's not what Xavier expected.What begins as proximity becomes something more dangerous: late-night conversations, shared secrets, a connection that neither of them can afford and neither of them can stop. When Xavier discovers evidence of his father's corruption hidden in a desk drawer, he's forced into a choice that will define who he becomes - whistleblower or weapon, his mother's son or his father's heir.Glass Empire is a novel about power, performance, and the cost of control. It asks the question every family built on silence eventually faces: who owns the house when the house is all that's left?A literary thriller told in rotating perspectives, Glass Empire explores institutional corruption, domestic betrayal, and the architecture of Black power in modern Atlanta. For readers of Tayari Jones, Nathan Harris, and Brit Bennett. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. ississippi Delta, 1957. Ora Lee Colson is a widow, a mother of three, and the woman whose house is on the list - the unwritten list passed hand to hand along the roads that Black musicians travel because the hotels won't have them and the restaurants would rather close than serve them.When word comes that Solomon "Smoke" Cartwright and his blues band are coming through on Saturday night, Ora Lee begins a three-day preparation that transforms her modest shotgun house into something sacred. She kills the chickens. She presses the tablecloth. She pulls down the good china - the set she only trusts to Easter and the dead.But Solomon Cartwright is not just any musician passing through. He is the man Ora Lee was supposed to leave with twenty years ago. The man who waited at a bus station and left alone. The man who never knew why she didn't come.Told through the eyes of Birdie Mae Colson, Ora Lee's fifteen-year-old daughter, The Supper Table is a story about the invisible labor of Black women who fed a nation's music and were never written into the history. It is about food as language, dignity as resistance, and the distance between the life you chose and the life you buried to build it.A novel that will make you smell your grandmother's kitchen, hear the music through the walls, and sit with a story long after the last plate is washed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Virginia Washington isn't supposed to be on the fourteenth fairway.She's supposed to be in the caddie shack, counting her tips, waiting for her aunt to pull up in the Altima with the flickering tail-light. But it's late August in Baton Rouge, the light is doing the thing, and Virginia takes one swing with a borrowed seven iron that a wealthy white widow named Karoline Boudreaux happens to see.What follows is a year of secrets. Virginia and her twin sister Nevada - named, with the rest of their sisters' ghosts, after the states their mother Vonetta wanted to see before diabetes took her at forty-one - start playing junior tournaments up and down the Gulf Coast, hiding every mile from their truck-driver father Marcus. He pulled out of their driveway before dawn on the morning their mother went into labor. He's been pulling out of it every morning since, and he does not yet know that his daughters are crossing the state lines he drives for a living.From an unknown fairway in Louisiana to the Southeast Junior Championship in Atlanta, The Names She Gave Us is a novel about what a Black Southern family owes the dead and what it owes itself. About the cost of being seen. About the particular weight a girl carries when she is named after a place her mother never got to visit. And about the road atlas that sits, at the end, in the empty fourth chair at a kitchen table on Dayton Street.For readers of Tayari Jones's Kin, Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Julian Cross is twenty-four years old, the son of a woman serving eighteen years in federal prison, and three days into his first assignment with the DEA when he meets a woman on a Miami sidewalk who already knows his name.Vale Montero is beautiful, controlled, and precise. She moves through the city like someone who has never been uncertain about anything. Her father built an empire in Medellin. Her last name is written on a whiteboard in the task force office where Julian spends his mornings. She is the ghost his entire unit has been hunting for twenty-two months.He knows what she is before he knows who she is. He sees the warning signs - the driver who checks his shoes, the hand that reads his phone through his pocket, the smile that goes empty for half a second before it warms. He sees all of it. And he walks toward her anyway.REINA is a 110,000-word crime romance about a DEA agent and the woman running the organization he was sent to destroy. It is a novel about the line between the law and the criminal, and how that line is not a wall but a door - and doors open both ways. Set in Miami's corridors of money, power, and surveillance, it explores what happens when discipline meets desire, when duty meets blood, and when the most dangerous person in the room is the one you love.For readers of Don Winslow, Attica Locke, and anyone who believes the best love stories are the ones that cost everything. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A small-town police raid goes wrong. A fifteen-year-old boy is killed in his own bedroom - unarmed, eating breakfast, reading a book he'll never finish.The department calls it procedure. The report calls him a suspect. The evidence starts disappearing before the body is cold.But inside the town's only church, a different kind of reckoning begins.Father Elijah Cole - a reformed ex-con turned priest with a past he's buried and a covenant he can't break - becomes the keeper of confessions from every side of the fallout. A young officer haunted by what he saw and what he chose not to say. A veteran detective building a case that could end her career. A grieving drug kingpin baptized in the same water his fury is rising from. And a corrupt detective who will burn the town down before he lets the truth surface.As the confessions multiply, so does the danger. The seal of the confessional protects every secret Elijah holds - but it also traps him inside a silence that's becoming indistinguishable from complicity. The more he knows, the less he can do. And the clock is running out for everyone.Set in the fictional Southern town of Jacob's Crossing, The Confessional is a high-stakes crime drama about corruption, redemption, faith under fire, and the cost of carrying other people's truths. It is a story about what happens when the only man who knows everything is the one man who can never speak. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On a Friday in November, Kairion Technologies fires four hundred people before lunch.Jason Cole, a veteran and product manager, gets the call at 6:15 AM. By eight o'clock, his badge is dead and his mother's care facility has six months of funding left. Devonte Washington, a young designer who relocated from LA for a job that just vanished, sits on the hallway floor and forgets where he was going. Priya Mehta, a director of data operations who is thirty-one weeks pregnant, reads the termination email and realizes she built the system that replaced her. Sloane Morrow is not who she says she is. And Tommy Slattery, a building maintenance worker with a bad heart, has been warning people about the elevator for six weeks. Nobody listened.At 8:16 AM, five strangers step into Car 7 of the express elevator. The doors close. The car stops between floors thirty-four and thirty-five. Three hundred and forty feet above the ground, the cables begin to sing.What follows is six hours of rising heat, failing systems, and the slow collapse of every wall these five people have built around themselves. Confessions are made. Secrets are exposed. A name is revealed that turns the elevator into a courtroom. And the building - indifferent, mechanical, and running out of patience - tightens its grip one cable at a time.The failure was not an event. It was a process. And the process started long before the elevator stopped.A claustrophobic thriller about the systems we build, the people we discard, and what happens when the floor disappears. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The casino floor and the trading floor are running the same game. The confetti on Robinhood. The "risk-free" bet on DraftKings. The diamond hands meme on Reddit. The 3 a.m. crypto trade you made on tilt. Every one of these moments was designed - engineered by the same behavioral psychology that keeps a gambler at the blackjack table until the sun comes up.The House Always Wins is the first book to map casino psychology directly onto the stock market, the crypto market, and the sports betting ecosystem - specifically for the generation navigating all three on the same phone.Inside, you'll learn: - How payment for order flow, bid-ask spreads, and options premiums function as Wall Street's hidden house edge- Why Robinhood studied casino floor design to build its app - and what that means for every trade you make- The neuroscience of tilt, hot streaks, and loss aversion, and why you lose the same way at both tables- How to tell whether you're the whale, the sharp, or the fish - and what to do about it- The Three-Bucket System for separating your sacred money from your play money- Why HODL culture is the disposition effect wearing a costume- How to stop playing someone else's game and start building your own table Written with the voice of a barbershop conversation and the rigor of behavioral economics, this book doesn't lecture you about why you shouldn't gamble. It teaches you the rules nobody gave you - so you can stop being the product and start being the house. The house always wins. Until you learn the game. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Marquis Beaumont arrives at Ashford University with a duffel bag, a Bible, and $387 from a grandmother who gave him everything she had. He leaves eighteen months later with a composition notebook full of secrets, a machine that generated $15,000 a month, and a name no one at the university will ever speak again.Between arrival and departure: a boy from New Orleans's Ninth Ward discovers that the elite Virginia university that offered him a scholarship also runs on an economy no brochure advertises - one built on boosters, football revenue, and the unspoken exchange between wealthy alumni and the young women who attend their events. When the gap between what his financial aid covers and what his grandmother's dialysis costs becomes unclosable through legitimate means, Marquis doesn't protest the system. He professionalizes it.Armed with gold teeth he swaps for a clear retainer, a mind that reads rooms the way generals read battlefields, and the literature of Frederick Douglass ringing in his ears from the one professor who sees him clearly, Marquis builds an operation inside the institution - vetting clients, protecting workers, setting prices the market never had. The machine is elegant. The machine is efficient. The machine is consuming him.MARQUIS is a novel about the distance between consciousness and liberation - about what happens when the most brilliant person on a campus is also the most desperate, and when the system that educates him is the same system that created the economy he exploits. It is a story about money and morality, about grandmothers and gold teeth, about the gap between who America says you can become and what America will let you do to survive.For readers of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Kiley Reid. For anyone who has ever been inside a system that offered them everything except a way out. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Marcus thought the worst thing in his life was being alone. He was wrong. After his relationship quietly falls apart, Marcus finds himself sitting in his apartment, surrounded by silence he helped create. The conversations he avoided. The distance he let grow. The version of himself he slowly became. And then there's the corner. At first, it's nothing. Just a shadow. Something easy to ignore.But the longer he sits with it. the harder it becomes to pretend it isn't there. Watching.Waiting.Understanding more about him than he wants to admit. As Marcus spirals through memory, regret, and the quiet truth of who he's been, he's forced to confront something far more terrifying than being alone: The possibility that he was never alone to begin with. The Thing in the Corner is a psychological, slow-burning exploration of avoidance, self-deception, and the quiet ways we disappear from our own lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Marcus thought the worst thing in his life was being alone. He was wrong. After his relationship quietly falls apart, Marcus finds himself sitting in his apartment, surrounded by silence he helped create. The conversations he avoided. The distance he let grow. The version of himself he slowly became. And then there's the corner. At first, it's nothing. Just a shadow. Something easy to ignore.But the longer he sits with it. the harder it becomes to pretend it isn't there. Watching.Waiting.Understanding more about him than he wants to admit. As Marcus spirals through memory, regret, and the quiet truth of who he's been, he's forced to confront something far more terrifying than being alone: The possibility that he was never alone to begin with. The Thing in the Corner is a psychological, slow-burning exploration of avoidance, self-deception, and the quiet ways we disappear from our own lives. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Axiom AI is the fastest-growing enterprise AI company in the country. Six billion dollar valuation. Fourteen hundred employees. A CEO named Vaughn Kessler whose entire management philosophy is one sentence: My job is to apply pressure. That's it. That's the whole job.What none of them know is that Vaughn has built a second AI. A secret one. It runs silently inside the company, ingesting every Slack message, every badge swipe, every keystroke. It assigns every employee a score between 1 and 100. The people who score high are called Barrels. The people who score low are called Ammunition. And in three weeks, three hundred and forty Ammunition are going to be escorted out of the building with cardboard boxes and a severance package, because the algorithm said so.Except the algorithm is wrong.Brian Wade is a custodian. Former Army logistics sergeant. ARC score: 12. He has been quietly photographing things for three months.Jada Simmons is a Tier 1 support rep. The invisible engine keeping a four-million-dollar client from walking. ARC score: 19. She has been documenting every single time her work was stolen and credited to someone else. She calls the folder The Receipts.Chris Chen is an intern. A first-generation college student who thinks in systems and can't stop seeing the architecture under the surface. ARC score: 8. The lowest in the company.When Brian finds Jada in the parking lot at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday night, the three of them are going to discover what the algorithm cannot see. They are going to build a counter-model. And at the next quarterly all-hands, in front of a thousand employees and the entire executive team, they are going to detonate every assumption this company has ever made about who matters and who doesn't.THE BARRELS is a corporate thriller about Silicon Valley's favorite metaphor and the three people it couldn't measure. For readers of The Circle, Severance, and The Warehouse. A novel about visibility, value, and the difference between the people who do the work and the people who hold it up for everyone to see."The world is full of people who take and people who make. The takers always look more important because they're the ones holding things up for everyone to see. But the makers are the ones who built everything they're holding." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In the underground battle rap circuit of Atlanta, they call it the Frequency - a force that lives inside the bars, something older than hip hop, older than the blues, older than anyone can name. When a rapper locks into it, the room changes. The air changes. People collapse. People seize. People die.Isaiah "Prophet" Drummond doesn't want to rap. But the Frequency lives in him, and every time he steps into the cipher, someone hits the floor. He can't control it. He can't explain it. And when the bodies start adding up and the wrong people start paying attention, he can't outrun it either.From the rust-and-religion warehouses of East Point to a secret summit where the truth about the old sound is finally spoken, Dead Bars is a dark, propulsive novel about the supernatural weight of Black musical tradition, the price of a gift you never asked for, and what happens when the thing that makes you great is the same thing that kills.Book One of The Frequency. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.