"Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger." —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly indepen­dent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new coun­try could afford. Over the previous fifteen years, as a diplomat...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTESLLER • From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life“A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden PotentialCome inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every...

"Your place is here now." It sounds like an invitation. It's actually a command.In this collection of horrors, Jason Fischer turns familiar spaces into deadly traps:A dinner with a new "mother" who wasn't invited. A Halloween visitor offers a treat you must not refuse. A puzzle book that predicts your future—and takes its cut. A cardboard cutout boy that won't stay where it's put. A dark carnival ride with no power runs perfectly on what you fear most.These and other tales of folk, psychological, and elevated horror converge on one message: your place is here now. Take your seat.

In the Woods Noirell, magic wells with the waters of the River and drips like the honey drawn from its trees, and fairy gifts are indistinguishable from their curses. In the Woods Noirell, travellers are told to stay on the Road, for if they stray they may well find themselves lost forevermore.In the Woods Noirell, there are dragons. Olive is the daughter of the Woods. She knew what waited at the end of her path long before she set foot on it ... A companion novella to the main Greenwing & Dart series. Can be read at any point, but is probably best read in conjunction with Bee Sting Cake or after Plum Duff.

Have Government agencies and big corporations ever created and promoted outright lies and cover-ups?Of course they have. When they do it together, that is the definition of conspiracy.Internationally recognized criminologist and bestselling author of The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker, investigates how the Government 'debunks' inconvenient and unwanted truths. This story of true crime includes bogus research, bribes, compromised experts, paid conspirators, destruction of evidence, and massive publicity campaigns to discredit people and truths that don't fit official wishes.Readers are provided real-time access to original source material that clearly details how Government agencies and Big Pharma have routinely conspired to deceive the public on matters of profound importance.