Worlds First Corporation

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the course of the 1850s and...

Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf book club choice NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER All they wanted was the chance to shine. Be careful what you wish for… ‘The first thing we asked was, “Does this stuff hurt you?” And they said, “No.” The company said that it wasn’t dangerous, that we...

Huge international companies and corporations are a normal part of our everyday lives today. For most, their unimaginable wealth and power, rivaling even some of the smaller countries of the world, is something we take for granted. And we see them as the living embodiment of the capitalist system, regardless if we take it as a good or a bad omen. However, this wasn’t always the case.

Perhaps the most famous – or as many would put it, infamous – of these naval corporations was the Dutch East India Company, also known as VOC. Established around the beginning of the 17th century, this nautical behemoth of a corporation was determined to squeeze everyone else out of the market. Vested with the power to wage war and exterminate any who dared stand in their way, the rest of the world stood by as the unstoppable force took over the whole of international maritime trade.

When field assessor Zuillda draws the short straw on a last-minute assignment to MEC-Catalogue 7-Theta-9, he expects a routine geological survey of an uninhabited world, a few weeks of collecting rock samples, filing numbers, and collecting a generous bonus from Meridian Extraction Consolidated before moving on to the next job. The planet has been sitting in MEC's acquisition portfolio for forty-one years, classified as sub-sentient, cleared for extraction, and ready for the kind of industrial transformation that makes shareholders very happy and geologists moderately wealthy. Nobody ...

A secret drowned in a poisoned past. A power awakening beneath the skin. A world on the brink of irreversible change. When Nazi gold is finally recovered from the black depths of Lake Toplitz, it triggers a chain of events that shakes the global balance of power. Hidden among the treasure lies something far more dangerous—Die Glocke, a relic containing a being that has endured seventy years of imprisonment. The leader of a powerful French megacomplex strikes a forbidden deal with the Spheres to unlock Die Glocke’s secrets—an exchange that could reshape the future of humanity itself. ...

He never wanted to change the world. He just wanted to be left alone. Hytemer is nobody special. A practical man on a distant world who fixes broken machines and explains things plainly. But when a casual conversation gets recorded and spreads across a dozen worlds, the most powerful corporations in the galaxy discover something terrifying buried in his DNA — not what he has done, but what he is capable of doing. The financial modeling is unambiguous. The decision is coldly rational. Hytemer has to die. He isn't arrested. He isn't warned. He simply becomes the target of a contract that ...

Trinity, A Changing World: The First Black President, is a theatrical musical about the election of America's first black president. The story takes place in a school library where books come alive on the eve of November 4, 2008 - the night of the election. So, the question becomes, was the election of America’s first black president, Barack Obama, a current event or a historical event? And the debate begins. Will the library books work all night to update the children's history books with this event? You won't want to miss this enchanting and whimsical theatrical play.