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  Paris Lost and Found - A Memoir...

  Scott Dominic Carpenter

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  Following his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, Midwesterner Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue. 
  This time, though, the story starts with sorrow as Carpenter's wife struggles with dementia. Humor may be the best medicine, but even the antics of a vandal in their building can’t cement the tiles of her memory for long. Before he expects it, the author finds himself alone in a capital that is also blighted by the pandemic. 
  It’s against this backdrop that the city comes roaring back to life. From bizarre encounters on the Metro to comical clashes with authority figures, and even a quixotic battle against a flock of migrant parrots, Paris Lost and Found unveils sides of the great city that are as quirky as they are authentic. With his unique blend of wit, insight, and wistfulness, Carpenter charts a path through his new labyrinth of solitude—only to emerge on the other side, squinting into the bright light of hope and new beginnings.

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  The Millionaire in the Box - How...

  Waleed Saleh

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  The Millionaire in the Box: How Nissan's Carlos Ghosn Escaped Japan to Lebanon 
  When success becomes a curse and achievement transforms into deadly enmity, witness the extraordinary tale of Carlos Ghosn—the Lebanese-born business legend who rescued two automotive giants from bankruptcy only to find himself trapped in an international conspiracy. 
  From humble immigrant beginnings to becoming the celebrated CEO of both Renault and Nissan simultaneously, Ghosn was hailed as "The Savior" and "The Man with the Golden Touch." His revolutionary management style transformed failing corporations into global powerhouses, earning him manga fame and standing ovations in Japanese restaurants. 
  But behind the boardroom triumphs lay a web of cultural tensions, political intrigue, and corporate betrayal. When Japanese authorities arrested the 68-year-old millionaire on fabricated financial charges, subjecting him to months of solitary confinement and psychological torture, Ghosn faced an impossible choice: surrender to a rigged judicial system with a 99.4% conviction rate, or risk everything in the most audacious escape of the modern era. 
  This gripping audiobook reveals the shocking truth behind Ghosn's legendary escape—hidden inside a musical instrument box, crossing international borders while authorities hunted him. More than a business biography, this is a modern epic exposing the dark underbelly of corporate power, international politics, and the price of challenging established systems. 
  Discover how cultural arrogance led to spectacular downfall, why the French government abandoned their citizen, and the ingenious planning behind history's most talked-about corporate escape. A tale that combines boardroom drama with airport thriller suspense, revealing how one man's refusal to accept injustice sparked a global diplomatic crisis.

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  Nobody Is Coming to Save You - A...

  Scott Mann

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  A New York Times bestselling author and leadership coach shares his invaluable secrets for successfully motivating people to action in low-trust, high-stakes environments. For years, Scott Mann worked in environments where nobody was coming to save him, his men, or the exhausted majority of Afghans they served. He learned that the best way to get big sh*t done and bridge vast divisions is to meet people where they are, not where you want them to be. He calls this approach Rooftop Leadership. Wherever you live, work, or play—in real estate, in corporate sales, in HR, for a community volunteer group, in a non-profit, in politics—the hardest thing to find these days is authentic connection with other people. The social trends and fraying of civil society after more than two years of prolonged isolation from Covid, mass technology, organizational strain, and blinking-red stress levels on our emotional dashboards have taken a toll. ​With inspiring stories about his experiences in the military and candid reflections on civilian life, Scott Mann connects readers to a more ancient, primal aspect of their nature rendered dormant by the modern world. Nobody Is Coming to Save You shows readers how to navigate the Churn that's dividing us and learn to make new and deeper connections to ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us.

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  The Best New True Crime Stories...

  Mitzi Szereto

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  Infamous Criminals Caught in True Crime Cases Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight aren’t always who they appear to be. You might be surprised by just how many have led nefarious, double lives, and have become infamous criminals!Power, status, and a rich lifestyle aren’t barriers to criminal behavior. Yes, people from all walks of life commit crimes. But the people featured here are not your typical neighbors or subway passengers—they are household names and Hollywood stars. Get the stories behind these public figures, both contemporary and historical, who have traveled down the murky pathway toward criminal activity.
   
  After committing their crimes, the world may have kept on turning, but their legacies as infamous criminals remain strong worldwide. This book offers a fascinating assortment of true crime cases from around the world and from various time frames. Like the previous anthologies in The Best New True Crime Stories series, this volume contains all new and original nonfiction accounts penned by international writers from across the literary spectrum, including true crime, crime fiction, and journalism.
   
  Inside, you’ll find:
   
  True crime cases that would make any true crime addict scream in delightful horrorThe stories of Hollywood stars and famous criminals who went down the wrong pathEncounters that feature the cases of infamous criminals like Robert Blake, Jimmy Savile, Fatty Arbuckle and moreIf you enjoyed Mitzi’s last book in her series, The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries, and books like American Predator, and The Family Next Door, then you’ll love The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Famous & Infamous Criminals.

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  Katherine Mansfield - Six of the...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Tremors in the Blood - Murder...

  Amit Katwala

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  Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by a rookie detective, a visionary police chief, and a teenage magician with a showman’s touch. John Larson, Gus Vollmer, and Leonarde Keeler hoped the lie detector would make the justice system fairer, but the flawed device soon grew too powerful for them to control. It poisoned their lives, turned fast friends into bitter enemies, and, as it conquered America and the world, transformed our relationship with the truth in ways that are still being felt. As new forms of lie detection gain momentum in the present day, Tremors in the Blood reveals the incredible truth behind the creation of the polygraph, through gripping true-crime cases featuring explosive gunfights, shocking twists, and high-stakes courtroom drama. Touching on psychology, technology, and the science of the truth, Tremors in the Blood is a vibrant, atmospheric thriller and a warning from history: beware what you believe.

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