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Daniel Corbett

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies delivers a firsthand account of the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.In American Mercenary,Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride through the adrenaline-pumping world of being a hired gun. From Abu Dhabi to Washington, DC, Cairo to San Diego, Belgrade to places that must remain secret, this...

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Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Anecdotal evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is a context in which individuals who see and/or experience the world differently can drive innovation and invention in ways that create wealth and enhance the public good.The chapters in this volume leverage comprehensive theoretical frameworks, empirical evidence, and interdisciplinary methodologies to advance our understanding of neurodiversity in entrepreneurship. The chapters employ diverse approaches and collectively establish...

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Daniel Corbett

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Daniel Corbett

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States’ most dangerous enemies delivers a firsthand account of the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.In American Mercenary,Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride through the adrenaline-pumping world of being a hired gun. From Abu Dhabi to Washington, DC, Cairo to San Diego, Belgrade to places that must remain secret, this...

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Mark Haddon

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Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman

From Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional powerThe tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three...

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Eric Ambler

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Full Cast, Clare Corbett, Daniel Rigby, Edward Hogg, Raad Rawi, Simon Scardifield

BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of three of Eric Ambler’s bestselling spy thrillers, plus Nick Perry’s play The Battle of San Pietro and a bonus documentary, Ambler at 80Eric Ambler has been hailed as ‘the father of the modern spy story’. His tense, gritty thrillers introduced a new realism to the classic espionage mystery, and influenced novelists from Graham Greene to John le Carré. This collection brings together three of his best-known novels, adap...

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Natasha Brown

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Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman, Norma Butikofer

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2025 • NPR’s Books We LoveRemember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a writer who “brilliantly illuminates the entrenched inequalities of our time” (The Guardian).**Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in t...

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Scott Korb

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Arthur Morey

What was it like to live during the time of Jesus? Where did people live? Who did they marry? What was family life like? And how did people survive?These are just some of the questions that Scott Korb answers in this engaging new book, which explores what everyday life entailed two thousand years ago in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous era when the Roman Empire was at its zenith and a new religion—Christianity—was born.Culling information from primary sources, schol...

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Richard Strozzi-Heckler

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Kirk Magoon

Is it possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns?In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style.In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, the author was asked to teach Eastern awareness disciplines ranging from aikido to meditation to a group of twenty-five Green Berets. This account chronicles his experiences in...

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Maria Reva

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Max Meyers, Saskia Maarleveld, Maria Reva

**WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE • WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION •SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZENamed A Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail • The New Yorker...

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Christopher Whitcomb

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Christopher Whitcomb

**A no-holds-barred memoir about identity, from a former Hostage Rescue Team sniper who left the FBI on 9/11 only to lose himself, moving deeper into a world of spies.“Imagine if Hunter S. Thompson had been a CIA asset. That’s one way to describe Anonymous Male, whose author, Christopher Whitcomb, was an FBI sniper turned global-war-on-terror freelance intelligence agent.”—The Wall Street Journal**In September 2001, Christopher Whitcomb was the most visibl...

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Saou Ichikawa

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Yuriri Naka

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Polly Barton

**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER****A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibiliti...

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Elaine Castillo

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Elaine Castillo

Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize in Fiction and named a Top Ten Book of 2025 by The Atlantic and Slate, and a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Kirkus Reviews and more.“A love story for those who love Severance (both Ling Ma’s book and the unaffiliated Apple TV+ series). . . ambitious, challenging, and brilliant.” —Elle“Castillo’s flinty satire of the tech industry [transforms] in...