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Poker isn’t a game of cards. It’s a game of pressure, timing, and control. From ancient Persian bluffing games to the neon battlegrounds of Vegas to the precision solvers of the online age, POKER: The Game That Outsmarted Luck is a walk through the full evolution of poker. The people, the tactics, the psychology, and the shifting edge. JJ breaks the game down without romanticizing it. No gimmicks. No guru talk. Just the real history, the real mind games, and the real skills it takes to survive at the table in 2025.

You didn’t create it. You didn’t agree to it. But it controls your life. This is the story of credit, not as a convenience, but as a control system. Behind every mortgage denial, sky-high car loan, or job rejection, there’s a silent judge pulling the strings: your credit score. And it doesn’t just follow you. It defines you. In this book, JJ breaks open the black box. You’ll see how private companies like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion turned your financial behavior into a commodity.

He wrote pulp fiction. He bombed empty oceans. He claimed to heal trauma, cure disease, and remember every life he’d ever lived. Then he started a religion. L. Ron Hubbard: The Man Who Built the Bridge is the story of the writer who became a prophet, not by accident, but by design. From Dianetics to the Sea Org and cosmic origin stories to billion-year contracts, this is a breakdown of the system he created, the lies that held it together, and the myth he buried himself inside. If you've ever wondered how Scientology became what it is, it starts with the man who made it.

The End is Coming. An extinction-level asteroid is cannonballing toward Earth. In humanity’s final hours, a lucky few earn a one-way ticket to the brand-new, ultra-immersive, fantasy-based VRMMORPG, Viridian Gate Online. Making that leap of faith might mean survival, but it comes with a steep price tag: “Travelers” will forever be stranded as digital avatars inside a fantastical world filled with vicious monsters, all-powerful AIs, and cutthroat players. Let the games begin....

Outdoor journalist James Edward Mills's book The Adventure Gap is a groundbreaking volume that is equal parts adventure story, history, and inspiration as it chronicles the first American all-Black summit attempt on Denali in 2013. Mills uses this momentous expedition as a jumping-off point to explore diversity in the outdoors, from Mathew Henson who stood at the North Pole in 1909 to contemporary adventurers such as polar explorer Barbara Hillary and rock climber Kai Lightner.

In this action-packed story from the world’s #1 bestselling author, Max Einstein is setting her sights on creating a smart solution to a water crisis—but only if she can avoid being kidnapped! “A fast-paced, science-filled caper.” —The Wall Street Journal​ Max Einstein's typical day...

The world's #1 bestselling author has teamed up with the world's most famous genius to entertain, educate and inspire a generation of kids—with the first and only kids' book series officially approved by the Albert Einstein Archives. Albert Einstein + James Patterson = A Must Read! Max is back...

Three great historians write compelling, relevent biographies of three of our most important and famous presidents in this collection of Eminent Lives Michael Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant—a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of...

The first fictional memoir ever written by an African-American, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double standard of racial identity imposed on black Americans. Told by a bi-racial man whose light skin allows him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a pilgrimage through America's color lines....

The Endgame trilogy continues in the sequel to the New York Times bestseller Endgame: The Calling. Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two keys—and nine Players—remain. The hunt for Sky Key has begun. Queens, New York. Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped...

In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish lawyer, on an historic horseback expedition across the Scottish Highlands to the Western Islands. The unlikely duo's travelogue records their fascinating conversations and encounters with great wit and incredible detail. Johnson, one of the 18th century's most celebrated writers, provided an elegant and stately account of everything from Loch Ness's medicinal waters to Scotland's puzzling lack of trees.

This second edition of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist: The Workbook has been fully revised by expert therapists with advances in attachment science and emotionally focused therapy (EFT) practice, the integration of the EFT Tango—a guide to the EFT process—and new chapters on working with both individuals and families.

What Harry Potter did for magic, Max Einstein does for kids' imaginations! Max leads a group of kid geniuses in this #1 New York Times bestseller officially approved by the Albert Einstein archives. Max Einstein is not your typical genius. She ... Hacks the computer system at NYU to attend...

Since the first appearance of a vampire in Robert Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer, we mortals have endured a morbid fascination with these peculiar creatures of the night. They come in many forms: charming and seductive; ghastly and terrible. Join us as we explore a number of classic yarns concerning the various guises of the vampire, from Aleksey Tolstoy’s horrifying description of a vampiric family to Robert E. Howard’s tale of a creature loosed from bondage after having been buried for over three centuries. Thank the gods these creatures are fictitious…aren’t they?

Initially published in 1775, A Journey to the Western Isles recounts a three-month trip to upper Scotland that Samuel Johnson undertook with James Boswell a couple of years previously. During their adventure, they discover a novel culture, stunning landscapes and welcoming locals – all described in Johnson's captivating prose.

Amid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant Dillard "C. J." Johnson and his crew are recognized by Pentagon reports to have accounted for astonishing enemy KIA totals while battling inside and out of the "Carnivore," the Bradley Fighting Vehicle Johnson commanded...

From best-selling author James W. Goll, a strategic prophetic leader in global intercessory prayer, comes an in-depth journey into the heart of what it means to be a "watchman on the wall". Designed for serious worshipers and intercessors, this unique 21-day journey will help you move to the front lines of prayer - becoming more alert to the presence of God and praying his will with confidence.

Antisemitism is a brutal, unflinching history of the oldest hate on Earth and the lie that keeps mutating. From ancient Egypt to medieval ghettos, from blood libels to pogroms, from the Holocaust to the hashtags, this audiobook follows the full arc of antisemitism across two thousand years of conspiracy, violence, paranoia, and denial. It exposes the system, not just as prejudice, but as program. Engineered to blame the Jews for everything, survive any contradiction, and reboot itself in every generation.

A businessman discovers he has a ghostly twin whose presence may be far more ominous than he had thought.... Mischievous children learn that supernatural forces are nothing to toy with, after a Halloween prank goes wrong. And holiday festivities set the backdrop to a terrified teen’s worst fears, when his grandmother’s corpse comes looking for revenge....