• The Black Swan - Nile Kenya
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    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

    What if the greatest forces shaping our lives are the ones we never see coming? The Black Swan plunges into the world of improbable events—rare, unpredictable, and colossal in impact—unveiling how our blind faith in patterns and probabilities leaves us vulnerable to chaos. With sharp wit and philosophical depth, the book dismantles our illusion of certainty, urging us to rethink what it means to understand risk, randomness, and the unknowable. Are we prisoners of the past, forecasting the future through a broken lens? This is a provocative exploration of how fragility, arrogance, and surprise dance at the heart of every decision we make.

    • Originally Published: 2007
    • Publisher : Random House Publishing Group, 2011
    • Genre: Non-fiction
    • Pages: 480
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0141034591
    • Access: Members
  • Image of the book- Chip War: The Fight For the World's Most Critical Technology
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    Chip War: The Fight For the World’s Most Critical Technology

    Invisible to the naked eye yet powerful enough to shape empires, the microchip is the modern world’s most precious—and contested—resource. Chip War peels back the layers of global conflict not fought with missiles, but with silicon, code, and supply chains stretching across continents. In this high-stakes techno-thriller of nonfiction, nations race to control the circuitry that powers economies, armies, and everyday life. As alliances falter and dependencies deepen, one question echoes louder than ever: who holds the future when power lies in something smaller than a fingernail? Gripping, urgent, and chillingly real, this is the untold story of the silent war redefining our century.

    • Originally Published: 2022
    • Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2023
    • Genre: Non-fiction
    • Pages: 431
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9781398504127
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  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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    Things Fall Apart

    In a land where tradition sings through drumbeats and ancestral fire, Things Fall Apart follows Okonkwo, a fierce warrior haunted by fear of failure and consumed by a need to escape his father’s shame. As colonial forces creep into the Igbo world, bringing both alien faith and foreign rule, the fragile balance between honor and change begins to crack. Through stark prose and lyrical intensity, the novel confronts a painful paradox: when the old ways falter, is it strength or surrender that preserves the soul? What happens to a man—and a people—when the pillars of their world begin to crumble? Achebe crafts a haunting elegy for a culture on the cusp of dissolution, where dignity and downfall are bound in the same breath.

    • Originally Published: 1958
    • Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994
    • Genre: Novel
    • Pages: 209
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780385474542
  • Leviathan
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    Leviathan

    In Leviathan, the raw, unruly passions of human nature clash with the need for peace, order, and survival. From the shadow of perpetual conflict emerges Hobbes’s chilling vision: a towering, artificial sovereign—crafted not from iron or stone, but from the collective will of humankind. Is the surrender of freedom the price of civilization, or the beginning of tyranny cloaked in security? This is not merely a treatise on power, but a mirror held to the soul of society, asking what we are willing to trade to escape the war of all against all. With austere eloquence, it dares to confront the chaos beneath the crown.

    • Originally Published: 1651
    • Genre: Political Philosophy
    • Release Date: March 2021
    • Pages: 623
    • Book Type: ebook (pdf)
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  • Devil on the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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    Devil on the Cross

    In a land where the soil is rich but the people starve, Devil on the Cross follows a young woman returning to her homeland only to confront a grotesque masquerade of power, greed, and betrayal. As she journeys through the heart of postcolonial Kenya, she finds herself caught in a surreal pageant of thieves who celebrate the plunder of their own nation. Told with searing lyricism and satirical fire, the novel exposes a world where devils wear the faces of patriots and justice is a song barely remembered. Can a wounded soul ignite a revolution when the devil himself is nailed not to punishment—but to praise? This is a haunting fable of resistance, dignity, and the desperate poetry of survival.

    • Originally Published: 1980
    • Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2017
    • Pages: 320
    • Genre: Novel
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780143107361
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  • Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday - Nile Kenya
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    Ego is the Enemy

    In a world that rewards noise, ambition, and self-promotion, Ego is the Enemy is a quiet rebellion—an urgent call to master the inner war between aspiration and humility. With stories of rise and ruin from history’s corridors, it unveils how ego—disguised as confidence or vision—can quietly sabotage success, cloud judgment, and sever meaning from achievement. What if the greatest obstacle to fulfillment is not the world outside, but the unchecked voice within? Clear-eyed and fiercely practical, this book offers a path not to glory, but to greatness born of self-mastery. In the silence after ego fades, what might we finally hear?

    • Originally Published: 2016
    • Publisher: Portfolio, 2016
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 256
    • Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-1591847816
    • Access: Members
  • The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Nile Kenya
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    The Concise Laws Of Human Nature

    Beneath the polished surface of civility lies a labyrinth of impulse, emotion, and primal instinct—and The Laws of Human Nature hands you the torch to navigate it. With a tone both surgical and haunting, this book exposes the timeless patterns that govern how people think, act, and deceive—even themselves. Can mastering the hidden currents of human behavior lead to deeper empathy, or does such power risk manipulation? Equal parts mirror and map, it dares you to confront the shadows within and around you. What you do with that knowledge may define your influence—or your downfall.

    • Originally Published: 2018
    • Publisher: Profile Books, 2020
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 287
    • Book Type: Hardcopy(Pocket Version)
    • ISBN: 9781788161565
    • Access: Members
  • The Power of Now - Nile Kenya
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    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

    Time is an illusion, suffering its echo—and The Power of Now invites you to step beyond both. In luminous, meditative prose, it unravels the mental noise that binds us to regret and anxiety, offering instead the stillness of the present moment as a gateway to peace. But can we truly awaken without first dying to the identities we’ve built? This is not a promise of escape, but a call to return—to a place you’ve never left but have forgotten how to feel. In the quiet between thoughts, a deeper life waits.

    • Originally Published: 1997
    • Publisher: Yellow Kite, 2020
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 224
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0340733509
    • Access: Members
  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind - Nile Kenya
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    The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock Your Master Key to Success

    Beneath the noise of waking thought lies a silent force that shapes your destiny—The Power of Your Subconscious Mind reveals how to unlock it. With clarity and conviction, this guide explores the untapped reservoir within, where beliefs become reality and imagination births truth. Are you the master of your mind, or merely its obedient echo? This is a journey into the hidden architecture of your life, where healing, success, and peace are not external conquests but inner awakenings. To read it is to remember the power you’ve always had—and to finally wield it.

    • Originally Published: 1963
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 296
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0143453604
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  • You Can Win - A step-by-step tool for top achievers - Nile Kenya
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    You Can Win: A Step-by-Step Tool for Top Achievers

    You Can Win is a clarion call to those who long not merely to succeed, but to thrive with integrity and purpose. With stories that stir the heart and strategies that sharpen the mind, it builds a ladder from self-doubt to self-mastery—one rung at a time. Is winning reserved for the few, or does it begin with a choice that anyone can make? Through timeless principles and actionable insights, the book invites you to rise above circumstance and craft a life shaped not by luck, but by character. It is not just a guide to achievement—it is a manifesto for becoming the kind of person who deserves it.

    • Originally Published: 1998
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2014
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Pages: 314
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-9832951711
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  • Option B - Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy - Nile Kenya
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    Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

    Option B is a luminous testament to the human spirit’s resilience when life shatters its first, best plan. In the wake of unspeakable loss, it asks: when Plan A is no longer possible, can we find strength, grace, and meaning in the imperfect contours of Plan B? Through deeply personal reflections and psychological insights, the book becomes both lantern and ladder—lighting the dark and lifting the fallen. It offers not just solace, but a roadmap for rediscovering joy without denying pain. In a world where heartbreak is inevitable, Option B dares us to believe that healing—and even hope—can still be chosen.

    • Originally Published: 2017
    • Publisher: WH Allen, 2019
    • Pages: 240
    • Genre: Self-help
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 978-0753548295
    • Access: Members
  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Venture Capital and How to Get It - Nile Kenya
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    Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

    Behind every billion-dollar startup lies a labyrinth few ever see—Secrets of Sand Hill Road invites you inside. With the precision of a dealmaker and the candor of a mentor, it demystifies the high-stakes dance between founders and venture capitalists, where ambition is currency and missteps are costly. How do great ideas survive the gauntlet of funding, power dynamics, and boardroom battles? This book is both map and mirror: revealing how venture capital shapes the future—and how entrepreneurs must shape themselves to survive it. For anyone who has ever dared to turn vision into venture, this is a guide to the game behind the curtain.

    • Originally Published: 2019
    • Publisher: Virgin Books, 2019
    • Genre: Fiction
    • Pages: 320
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780753553961
    • Access: Prime Members
  • Atlas Shrugged - Nile Kenya
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    Atlas Shrugged

    What happens when the world’s thinkers, builders, and dreamers vanish, one by one, into silence? Atlas Shrugged is a thunderous epic set in a collapsing civilization, where the engines of progress are halted by a society that punishes excellence and rewards mediocrity. Amid the smoke of industry and the ruins of broken ideals, a defiant few must decide: is it moral to serve a world that drains your soul—or to walk away and let it crumble? With sweeping prose and unflinching vision, this novel challenges the very foundations of duty, ambition, and what it means to live with purpose. It is a story of resistance, of love forged in fire, and of the relentless power of the human mind.

    • Originally Published: 1957
    • Publisher: Signet, 2004
    • Genre: Fiction
    • Pages: 1088
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN: 9780451191144
    • Access: Members
  • Globalization and its Discontents
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    Globalization and its Discontents

    In a world knitted ever tighter by the threads of commerce and capital, Globalization and Its Discontents pulls back the curtain on the uneven bargains and broken promises of the global economy. With piercing clarity and moral urgency, it chronicles how international institutions meant to uplift the poor instead deepen their despair, as policies crafted in distant boardrooms unravel the lives of millions. Can a system that claims universality serve justice when its power is so unequally distributed—and whose voice counts when nations rise or fall on decisions they did not choose? This is not merely a critique, but a plea—for accountability, for empathy, and for a new vision of global prosperity rooted in dignity rather than dominance. It is a story of ambition betrayed, and of the silent rebellions that ripple through the streets of the global South.

    • Originally Published: 2002
    • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
    • Pages: 304
    • Genre: Non-Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0393324396
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    The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor

    Why do some markets hum with prosperity while others falter and fracture under pressure? The Truth About Markets is a sharp, thought-provoking journey through the beating heart of economic systems—from the corridors of Wall Street to the bazaars of emerging economies—exposing the myths, contradictions, and unexpected virtues of market behavior. With wit and precision, it dismantles the illusion of perfect rationality, revealing instead a world where culture, institutions, and human folly shape the destinies of nations. Is efficiency always the endgame—or might the most successful markets be those that are messier, more human, and less driven by cold equations? This book is both an intellectual provocation and a call to reimagine the values we assign to wealth, success, and collective good.

    • Originally Published: 2003
    • Publisher : Penguin, 2004
    • Genre: Non-fiction
    • Pages: 496
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13:  9780140296723
    • Access: Members
  • Emperor of All Maladies
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    Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

    A biography not of a person, but of a relentless adversary, The Emperor of All Maladies charts the epic, often harrowing saga of cancer—from its shadowy origins in ancient texts to the modern laboratories where science battles fate. It is a tale of human defiance, where hope flickers in the corridors of hospitals and the minds of those daring to outwit a shape-shifting foe. How do we confront an enemy that is, in many ways, a distorted mirror of ourselves—our cells, our evolution, our very survival instinct gone rogue? Lyrical, haunting, and deeply humane, this is a chronicle of resilience, of the fragile victories and sobering costs that define the war against one of humanity’s oldest diseases.

    • Originally Published: 2011
    • Publisher : Fourth Estate, 2011
    • Genre: science
    • Pages: 586
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0007250929
    • Access: Members