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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. …

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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. 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. 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. 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.…