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In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.

Elevate Your Performance. Multiply Your Results. Move with Purpose. you² lays out a disciplined strategy for achieving extraordinary outcomes—faster, smarter, and with greater clarity of focus. Written by best-selling author Dr. Price Pritchett, this handbook rejects slow, step-by-step progress and replaces it with a bold framework for exponential gains. The you² strategy delivers breakthrough performance—achieved through precise mental shifts and bold action, not through effort alone.

Written by trailblazing global product innovator Leslie Grandy, Creative Velocity: Propelling Breakthrough Ideas in the Age of Generative AI provides everything listeners need to develop the mindset, skills, and confidence that allow creativity to flourish, enabling them to challenge conventional thinking to improve customer, business, and personal results and collaborate effectively with generative AI to cultivate and explore novel ideas.

It’s spring 1919, and the Great War has ended. New life flourishes on the red cliffs of the Northern Isles of Scotland—sea pinks and primrose, puffins and guillemots. But this windswept corner of the world harbors a dark secret. Rose Van Etten has always reveled in danger and defiance. When the war started, she went from racing cars to driving ambulances and learned of an insidious spy ring from a dying soldier. Now that the war is over, she ventures to Scotland in search of the truth.

Velocity Money: Crypto, Karma, and the End of Traditional Economics explores how cryptocurrency enables a new economic paradigm built on speed, transparency, and purpose. Crypto is reframed as “velocity money”—value that moves instantly and intelligently, unlocking global participation and 24/7 productivity. But speed alone isn't enough. The book introduces karma economics, where value is based on contribution, not accumulation, and proposes replacing GDP with Gross Domestic Requirement (GDR)—a real-time measure of what people need to live well.

Dean Koontz’s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity...

It's the ultimate test of courage. From NASA's Cape Canaveral to the Central Australian desert, Steve Worland's debut thriller sets a heart-stopping pace. A cast of brilliant characters combined with explosive action make this a genuine blockbuster.

A novel exploring the connection between grief and love, this is the story of Ellie Lowell, a college graduate shattered by her mother's sudden death, whose return to the rural North Carolina town of her childhood marks the beginning of an obsessive, destructive love affair.

A moving, tender and compelling story about a life lived on the edges of society, of poverty, of certainty, of love. Filled with beautifully realised descriptions of life seen through a child's eyes - a child who gradually comes to realise her adored parents are all too tragically flawed and broken - Velocity packs the emotional impact of Angela's Ashes with the surreal humour and razor-sharp observations of Running with Scissors.

Best known for his glorious comic novels, Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction, memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja, Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas.

An anthology of six short sci-fi stories set in space, featuring a story from The Quest for Truth galaxy, "Truthful Test". Authors and titles included in this anthology: "Moonstone Mystery" by J. L. Ender; "Truthful Test" by Brock Eastman; "Focus" by Rebecca Pettett; "Regenesis" by Janine Roche; "A Galactic Caper" by Elissa Peterson; and "The Second System" by Matt Hirshberg.

Life for 16-year-old Bronte Bell has fallen apart around her - the man who raised her as his own is the enemy, the boy she loves is a Star, and her high school nemesis is her sister, and the other last star child. Life for Bronte couldn't get much more complicated. Except, she can't remember a thing. Willing to do whatever it takes to protect her; the Stars have secreted Bronte away in a glamoured life; one where she's just a normal teenager with normal teenager problems. But piece by piece, and with the help of an unlikely ally, the truth unravels.

Joseph is the name they’ve given him. Before that, he was Casper—a trained killer. Now he’s been sidelined to a summer camp retreat center, and if he doesn’t make this work he’ll get kicked out of the Accountant’s Office program for good. The only problem is this retreat center is a hotbed of decades old mystery and murder—and missing treasure.

Space Habitat Altaire is the premier orbital luxury resort, perfect for the Rochford Institute’s lavish class reunions: prime opportunities for alumni to jockey for power—and to advance their applications to live on Mars. Earth is dying, and only the best deserve to save themselves. At their 25th high school reunion, finance magnate Ava pursues the truth about her brother’s murder during their senior year. Political scion Laz hopes to finally win Ava’s heart. Sloane, collecting secrets to offset his family’s decline, angles for a key client.

Ellen, the narrator of Boyd's previous novel, The Revolution of Little Girls, this time pierces the heart of the sexual revolution in her quest to find a woman hero or - by default - to become one. Ferociously paced, Terminal Velocity delineates six wonderfully engaging characters: Artemis Foote, for whom being rich, talented, and beautiful is a kind of game; Jordan, a messianic fugitive who becomes Ellen's lover; Amethyst Woman, a Marxist/Leninist dentist; Ross, a red-diaper baby and now a columnist for Ramparts; and Pearl, an art history professor turned hippie.

Millions of readers remember The Goal, the landmark business novel that sets forth by way of story the essential principles of Eliyahu Goldratt's innovative methods of production. Now, from the AGI-Goldratt Institute and Jeff Cox, the same creative writer who co-authored The Goal, comes VELOCITY...

Ready to turn your social media presence into a money-making, audience-growing powerhouse? In Viral Velocity, CIN Entertainment delivers a no-fluff, action-packed guide to mastering the strategies, psychology, and tools that drive explosive social media growth — no matter your starting point. Whether you're a business owner, aspiring influencer, creator, or brand builder, this book gives you everything you need to attract attention, build loyal communities, and convert engagement into real results.

An excellent supplement to any ITIL 4 High-velocity IT training course.

ITIL® 4 High-velocity IT (HVIT)–Your Companion to the ITIL 4 Managing Professional HVIT Certification is a study guide designed to help students pass the ITIL® 4 high-velocity IT module.

Historically, IT in many companies has had a reputation for being slow, expensive, and risk-averse. With the pace of business today, these practices must change quickly if companies are to thrive. This audiobook contains fascinating stories from the author's years at Microsoft that will help you modernize and change your IT team to accelerate your business, plus 100 short, practical, specific ways to improve business velocity in today‘s IT culture.

Sometimes managing a sales team feels like trying to manage chaos, and in a way it is—there are so many unpredictable influences at work in sales. In Nuts and Bolts of Sales Management, John Treace, mining decades of executive sales experience gained from successful business turnarounds, provides managers with proven strategies to build a high-performing sales team that will consistently produce desired results.