{"product_id":"bigger-than-us-smaller-than-yulia-bumi-9798233716003","title":"Bigger Than Us Smaller Than Us: Book 1 (Phosphorus)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the smallest things we ignore are hiding the biggest secret of all?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSari Saraswati is running the perfect scam. A mangrove restoration project in Indonesia, European clients buying carbon offsets, and a tidy commission flowing directly into her pocket. The auditors never visit. The trees grow anyway.\u003cbr\u003eThen she notices the ants.\u003cbr\u003eThey're carrying emerald crystals into the mud. Building structures deep underground. And the phosphorus in her soil isn't just disappearing-it's being taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Morocco, Karim El-Fassi is haunted by his best friend's suicide. Hassim died accused of stealing 96,000 tons of phosphate from the state mines. The evidence was thin. The accusation was enough. Now Karim has found the same anomaly in forty-seven countries: millions of tons of rock, mined and shipped and never received.\u003cbr\u003eNot stolen. Taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Colombia, Lucia López González has spent forty years watching ants transform. Their bodies turning to crystal. Their colonies retreating underground. Their purpose unknown. Her mentor died asking the same question she still can't answer: What are they building?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Netherlands, Ali Angkasa receives an email from the woman who broke his heart. She's found something in the mud. She needs his help. She doesn't know she's not the only one looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour people. Four continents. One element.\u003cbr\u003eNone of them know the others exist.\u003cbr\u003eBut the ants know.\u003cbr\u003eThe ants have always known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBook One: Phosphorus, is the first volume in a thrilling debut trilogy about fraud and obsession, love and grief, and the smallest creatures on earth building something that could change everything.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yulia Bumi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798233716003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yulia Bumi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37d","brand":"Yulia Bumi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743139180799,"sku":"9798233716003","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bigger-than-us-smaller-than-yulia-bumi-9798233716003","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}