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The Confidence Project
When the art of disappearing becomes a barrier to your future, how far will you go to finally be seen?
Maya Brooks has mastered the art of being invisible. A quiet, diligent student at Northwood University, she prefers the safety of back-row seats and staying under the radar. But when a panic-stricken presentation leaves her academic future—and her dream of a career in public relations—in jeopardy, Maya is forced into a deal that changes everything.
Professor David Reynolds, recognizing the untapped potential beneath her fear, offers Maya a life-altering ultimatum: participate in the "Confidence Project," a semester-long gauntlet of challenges designed to push her out of her comfort zone, or lose the chance for the prestigious internship she has worked years to earn.
Desperate for change, Maya reluctantly accepts. Her partner in this journey is the last person she expected: Ethan Carter, the debate team captain and campus celebrity who seems to have it all. But beneath his charismatic exterior, Ethan is fighting his own battles with expectations, reputation, and the crushing pressure of a future he isn't sure he wants.
As Maya and Ethan navigate a series of increasingly difficult challenges, they discover that confidence isn't about being fearless—it's about learning to move forward despite the fear. In a world of rumors and expectations, can two students learn to trust themselves enough to write their own stories?
A story of courage, connection, and the messy, beautiful work of becoming who you were meant to be.
111 POEMS: One Voice by KELVIN LILLAN...
Some books are written. This one was lived. 111 Poems is a raw, emotionally charged collection born over a decade in the shadow of the Ngong Hills, a place that became home, witness, and muse. Spanning faith and doubt, love and loss, the resilience carved out of struggle, and the quiet beauty of the natural world, these 111 poems trace the full arc of a human life.
The final poem, a tribute to Ngong itself, closes the collection the way all honest journeys end, by honouring the ground that held you.
For every reader who has ever found poetry in a place, a season, or a silence, this collection is yours.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 3
Deductive Logico is ready to kick back and relax on his long-awaited vacation…but murder doesn’t take time off. In Murdle: Volume 3, these clever and hilarious mini-mystery puzzles will challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why.
• Use your skills of deduction to solve each mystery one by one.
• Reveal the mastermind behind the SPY secret agency and discover the secret location of TekTopia.
• Uncover the truth about the evil AI supercomputer MORIARTY before it’s too late!
Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 3 is a thrilling casebook for the armchair detective in everyone.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 2
Deductive Logico is back on the scene in Murdle: Volume 2. Based on the sensational hit online game, these clever and hilarious mini-mystery puzzles will challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Unearth the dark secrets of the Violet Isles, solve the riddles of an ancient and mysterious scholar, and explore the haunted lands of Drakonia. . . if you dare.
Packed with pictures, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 2 is a thrilling casebook for the armchair detective in each of us.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 1
G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the first collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles―a perfect gift for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a series of crimes.
Who committed the ghastly deed?
What weapon was used to dispatch the victim?
Where did the calculated demise occur?
Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Murdle: Volume 1. The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you’ll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that can only be decrypted when you’ve solved them all.
Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 1 is the must-have detective casebook for the secret sleuth in everyone.
THE MWALIMU FILES Project: Jap’s Orig...
Before Zuri Odhiambo returned from MIT to burn it all down, Japheth Ochieng built it all up. A mathematics teacher in a Kenyan fishing village watches the future arrive in the form of lithium mines and algorithmic surveillance. When the system kills his cousin and recruits his resistance, Jap must choose between the manageable life he's been performing and the unmanageable revolution that will cost him everything—including two fingers, his teaching career, and the girl he loves. Set five years before the events of from Crisis to Resilience, this novella traces the birth of Mau Mau Digital through six classified surveillance files, each revealing how the algorithm learns to predict a man who refuses to be predicted.
The Attention Fix: How to Focus in a ...
In this powerful guide, Dr. Hansen provides groundbreaking strategies to reclaim your focus and mental well-being. Unveiling the evolutionary reason for our distractibility, The Attention Fix sheds light on the toll our constant connection to smartphones and digital devices takes on our mental well-being. Backed by extensive research and studies, Dr. Hansen’s insights are scientifically proven and enriched through his exploration of the intricacies of the human brain. With The Attention Fix, you can gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest scientific research on the brain and the true effects of unrestricted social media use, breaking free from the cycle of mindless scrolling and demotivation. Curb your addiction to screens and cultivate deep, single-task focus to experience a renewed sense of happiness, improved health, and enhanced productivity.
- Break free from the addiction cycle of mindless scrolling and demotivation utilizing Dr. Hansen’s groundbreaking strategies.
- Dr. Hansen’s expertise and insights are trusted by renowned experts and influential figures in mental health, fitness, and overall well-being. Learn about the latest scientific research on the brain as you gain a comprehensive understanding of the true effects of unrestricted social media use.
- Cure smartphone addiction and cultivate attention management skills to ease anxiety, find better focus, and decrease attention deficit symptoms.
- Understand the impact of our evolutionary traits in the modern world and explore the consequences of our physical and mental traits. Uncover the detrimental impact of unrestricted social media use on your brain and empower yourself to reclaim your attention span.
COWARDS DIE SMILING by Ongoma Sakwah
Nairobi's most powerful lawyer is found dead in Karura Forest, and DCI detective Ssereya is handed the case. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: Nairobi has men who decide how investigations begin, how they end, and who the law should protect. They will do whatever it takes to ensure the truth stays buried and lies believable.
As she closes in, Ssereya becomes the one thing these men fear most: a stubborn investigator who refuses to be controlled. Soon, she is the most hunted woman in Nairobi. To survive, she must go rogue and stand against the very system built to shield the men she was employed to send to prison.
Ssereya has learned that in Nairobi, the brave live short, painful lives. Cowards survive long enough to tell the story. She must be brave and survive long enough to tell the story.
The Count of Monte Cristo : An advent...
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d’If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to use the treasure to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
Robin Buss’s lively translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes, and suggestions for further reading.
Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Other Side of Dinah by Dorah Achieng
- Most often, there are two sides of a story; the known and the unknown. We often tend to assume we know people until we walk in their shoes and realize how wrong we were. The other side of Dinah is one of such stories. Portrayed as an arrogant domineering lady, she turns out to be very different with deep rooted childhood traumas.
LIGHT IN THE MIDST by Grace Lasoi
A Kampala Murder Plot: A Novel by Uly...
A Kampala Murder Plot is about a murder that takes place shortly after a guerrilla force takes over state power and most police officers are still in hiding. The guerrillas are handling (but also mishandling) police work with cheerful disregard for police procedure - a seemingly heinous offence in the eyes of the few returned cops that include the domineering Director of CID.
Corporal Shell Sonko, briskly solving cases of jealous-husband-wife tiffs and also of citizens hurt on either side of the just-ended civil war, is accosted by Julia Koko, the dazzling dame from Germany, whose niece, Dona Kyobe Mazzi, was recently murdered in a brutal multiple homicide that Koko feels police mishandled, ignored and even prematurely closed.
Employing common sense gained from reading lots of fiction and not much else, Corporal Sonko delves into the murder, quizzing big, sometimes nasty, tycoon suspects and their women, who include the wealthy and mercurial bully Jimmy Bikomago and his woman, the stunning Victoria Ntanya.
Finally, from a line of likely and unlikely suspects, Sonko tentatively brings his investigation to a plausible conclusion, to the bafflement of all present but also to the chagrin of the rather toothless but quite barky Director of CID.
DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono ...
The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley’s introduction contextualizes Otiono’s work within the frame of physical and spiritual mobility, diaspora, and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism, attending to form as well as his political engagement. The volume concludes with an interview of the poet by Chris Dunton that touches on the nature of poetry, language loss, and diasporic identities.
Love in a Time of Nightmares: Poems b...
“How might we make music in a burning house? Love in a Time of Nightmares shows us how. Lacerating and lyrical, these songs are fragments out of a still raging storm whose other name is Nigeria. Tenderness knits despair and hope together in this daring collection, and the product is the ambiguity that must be the stance of all those who dare sing in the midst of an inferno.” —Ike Okonta, Department of Politics, University of Oxford, UK “Nduka Otiono’s excellent book begins a dialogue between Canadian poetics and the rich resources of Nigerian poetry…. Africa has much to teach us, and here is an ideal place to learn…. Come and listen. You will be enchanted.” —Bert Almon, poet and Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada “Only an accomplished poet can write these remarkable poems, haunting and enchanting songs in smooth-flowing lines. Love in a Time of Nightmares is definitely mature and exhilarating…a memorable collection. You can’t help but be mesmerized by these poems.” —Tanure Ojaide, poet and Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Voices in the Rainbow: Poems by Nduka...
In Voices in the Rainbow, the poet-protagonist sees himself as the “griot of a threatened tradition.” The poems in this collection are therefore a heroic effort to rescue the ancestral oral tradition of bards and raconteurs from obsolescence by reinventing its tropes and techniques within the tradition of the written word. The use of musical accompaniment, of criers and choruses, and the resources and rhythms of song and chant as integral part of these poems lend them a multi-layered dimension which further reinforce the stylistic virtuosity displayed in the author’s earlier award-winning collection of short stories, The Night Hides with a Knife. The delight of the present volume is that it presents us with a palimpsest from which we can read back through contemporary poetic forms to an archaeology of the most ancient of poetic forms and devices. The range of voices extend from T.S. Eliot to Okigbo and a broad spectrum of new Nigerian poets. Poems take off from other poems, spiral into yet other poets to create a veritable symphony of voices as harmoniously blended as the colours of the rainbow.
Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars.
In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanours. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.
Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There is only one place to learn the truth.
Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time. . .