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Thomas Crocker and SEAL Team Six are back for another adrenaline-packed adventure from former SEAL commando Don Mann.When a cargo ship is captured by pirates off the east coast of Africa, SEAL Team Six is called into action. What looks at first like a simple search and rescue turns much more perilous when the ship's cargo is revealed to be yellowcake, a critical component in nuclear weaponry. Thomas Crocker and his squad are dispatched to Libya with a clear objecti...

A provocative, groundbreaking exploration of humanity's deepest question: what happens after we die?If you've ever stood beside someone who just died—a parent, a friend, a pet—you know: that being isn't there anymore. The body becomes an abandoned shell, there in form yet hollow of what gave it meaning. What happened when they died?When Robert Lanza's sister died he did what any scientist would do: he looked for answers. In What Survives, he explor...

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantv°namo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantv°namo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go.Three ye...

Tackle diabetes and its complications for good with this newly updated edition of Dr. Neal Barnard's groundbreaking program.Revised and updated, this latest edition of Dr. Barnard’s groundbreaking book features a new preface, updates to diagnostic and monitoring standards, recent research studies, and fresh success stories of people who have eliminated their diabetes by following this life-changing plan.Before Dr. Barnard’s scientific breakthrough, most hea...

Now a major MGM+ sci-fi drama series starring Lena Headey and Stephan JamesFor centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships.It is a lonely job and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the twenty-third century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed o...

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world, and is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein).We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But...

This generations-spanning novel carries one extraordinary family to the brink of the Iranian Revolution--and marks the debut of a literary talent to watchAs a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing world. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated r...

From the most popular Egyptian novelist of his generation (“a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz” —The Guardian), a rollicking, exuberant and powerfully moving story of a family swept up by social unrest in post–World War II Cairo.Once a respected landowner, Abd el-Aziz Gaafar fell into penury and moved his family to Cairo, where he was forced into menial work at the Automobile Club—a refuge of colonial luxury for its European members. There, Alku, the life...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, this thrilling novel about a daring socialite spy chronicles the true wartime exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name."Will fascinate readers of World War II history and thrill fans of fierce, brash, independent women." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours**It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Austra...

**In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower and The End of October."A layered tale of intrigue and betrayal."—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and Horse**Tony Malik, a half-Irish, half-Arab FBI agent based in New York, specializes in track...

Ben Steins experience from Washington to Hollywood and everywhere in between-- makes him the ideal individual to offer advice to others. His expertise in countless fields make his valuable, keen observations that cover the range of topics and challenges that most people face every day -- the perfect topic for his next book, What Would Ben Stein Do?: Its a question wed all be wise to ask ourselves when contemplating an array of issues in both business and life: What Would Ben Stein Do... Ab...

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the ...