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Aspirin changed medicine forever. But that was just the beginning. BAYER is the untold story of how one pharmaceutical company helped invent modern chemistry, aligned with fascism, trademarked heroin, used forced labor at Auschwitz, rebranded, rebounded, and quietly became one of the most powerful corporations on Earth. From industrial dyes to global drugs, from war crimes to billion-dollar cancer settlements, this book traces the long arc of Bayer’s rise and what it reveals about the system behind modern medicine. This isn’t just a company history. It’s a century of power, pain, and profit.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the...

Standing five stories tall in a relatively small city, the Howard Phillips building is like any other building: It is secretly inhabited by an entity from another plane of existence that feeds off the energy of the people who work within its walls. Unfortunately, the life-form inhabiting this particular building has been infected by a sort of virus of hate; as companies move out and its inhabitants dwindle, this alien intelligence has chosen to use fear as a means of obtaining sustenance. It is up to Jon, Marcy, and Bettie to stop this haunting presence before it’s too late.

Starr Wyman is hedged in on all sides: caring for her war-broken brother, tormented by her crooked father, still in mourning for the disappearance of her mother. Her father, the Bible-quoting “Wint” Wyman, dismisses her herbalist work as witchcraft, but when a body drops and her brother is responsible, Wint calls on Starr to make the corpse disappear. As the town's chief Alderman and drug kingpin, he can do that. Enter the mysterious Jase Patton, hunting an ivory artifact owned by Wint Wyman.

While in Vegas for the American Poker Grand Slam, BB Thomas - the Game Master - is suddenly arrested by the FBI and taken to a top-secret laboratory. A scientist has been murdered in a bizarre manner, and BB's daughter has been kidnapped. Reluctantly joining forces with his ex-wife, BB plunges into a labyrinthine mystery incorporating the world's oldest and best-known games and taking them to Paris, Dubai, Pyongyang, and Alexandria.

COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.