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21) Faster
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Fans of Ex Machina and I, Robot will love this book with "something to interest almost everyone." (Screencraft)
"Faster is an exciting drama with deeply drawn and flawed characters. The action is often exciting, and many chapters are page-turners." -Valerie W., Amazon reviewer
Inspired by the incredible true story of three geniuses who changed the world.
Out in the sun-bleached sands of the Mojave Desert, a group of masterminds comes together...
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The Lyon family was truly a red-blooded all-American family, and well known as a strong honest, very wealthy family, in Texas and other parts of the world. John was the patriarch of the Lyon family. John started his empire in the late 1880s. Born to a well-off family in New Mexico, his father was a cattleman who owned a large cattle ranch, south of Santa-Fe some twenty-odd miles. Due to a tragic accident when John was about sixteen, he lost both parents...
23) Arnarstapi
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La guerra por el dominio del clima ya ha empezado en una remota aldea de Islandia.
Un inesperado cambio meteorológico está a punto de acabar con la vida de un consagrado y mediático alpinista recién llegado a Islandia. Tras comentarlo con los habitantes de Arnarstapi, una remota aldea del noroeste de Islandia, el montañero decide investigar los misteriosos experimentos científicos que se llevan a cabo desde una gran antena de telecomunicaciones...
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If you could see the memories of every person you met would it be a blessing or a curse?
John Calabrace's life has been in havoc since he was a very small child. He spends his life fighting through a flood of memories, most of which are not his own. The second he is touched by another person, he knows every memory & feeling they have ever experienced, and those memories stay permanently etched in his head.
What might seem to be a wonderful gift...
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When CIA Officer Tom Grant was pulled out of early retirement to investigate a recent high-tech robbery at United States Nanotechnologies, America's government-run agency for the development of nanoweapons, he had no idea that he would be propelled into the middle of a conspiracy that could threaten the survival of our species.
Teaming up with young Rachel Muratani, a rising star in the agency, and Karen Frost, an old hand from the FBI, Grant tracks...
26) Over the Edge
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Off-duty United States Secret Service agent H. Hunter Mahoy is wounded while landing a gunfire-stricken jumbo jetliner at Miami International Airport. The surgeon who operates on him finds a suspicious fragment in his left shoulder and queries him as to its origin. Hunter is clueless.
His coworker, Agent Charles Minsk, takes the fragment to a private lab in Washington DC, where he soon learns that it's a highly miniaturized tracking device--or...
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Jay Wilson and Jenni Delacroix are on the run from the mob after narrowly dodging a car bomb, but Kaylee, the new boss, won't stop until they're dead. She has elite hacking skills and digital eyes everywhere, so going off the grid is the only way to survive.
Hiding in the secluded forests of northern Minnesota was retired detective Ted Stone's idea -- he saved them once before, and they're counting on his instincts again. It's a shock when their...
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A stunning collection of stories based on true-life cyber vulnerabilities, presented in two parts
Here be Dragons. In the Age of Discovery, unexplored areas of a map were often marked with this warning. Today, such a warning could easily be applied to the internet. Hackers and cyber assassins present a constant threat to individuals, companies, and institutions.
Protecting these targets requires a new kind of warrior, a cyber-knight armed with the...
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Donovan Nash has a secret he'll do anything to keep. But he's the prime suspect after someone steals a fifty million dollar executive jet, and FBI agent Veronica Montero put him squarely in the crosshairs. As she digs, she discovers Nash's secret - a revelation that, if made public, would stun the world. Operating on her own agenda, Montero blackmails Nash into helping her hunt down a man she wants dead.
Powerless against the information Montero...
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Catalina Saylor ha sido aceptada para trabajar en la incubadora de Qubit a prueba durante 30 días. Si prueba su idea dentro de ese tiempo, se le permitirá quedarse e intentar obtener una patente de su dispositivo. La Incubadora de Qubit es un lugar de trabajo para gente brillante con buenas ideas, pero que no tienen recursos para desarrollarlas.
Si el candidato es aceptado, se le proporcionará un espacio de trabajo, equipo y otros beneficios durante...
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Mac Savage, a former CIA officer; Marie Kovacs, a former nanotechnology scientist turned missionary; and Kate Chavez, a Texas Ranger investigating a murder, join forces to unravel a global conspiracy that starts with the diamond industry and ends with a plan to eliminate the human race.
The Donovan Group, a high-powered global conglomerate, has used diamond-based technology to create an overarching artificial intelligence, known as ANNE. Using spyware...
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It's never quite dark on the Street of Eyes, but the shadows there grow large and deep. You go to find a job. There's no telling if you'll be coming back.
Street is a Science Fiction trilogy set on a future Earth not so different from the one we know. Even in a world bursting with technology, there's still violence, vice, and oppression. Freelance telepath Gina Hart lives this reality every day on the bottom rung of society. Only, for her, it's about...
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What is the result when there is a breakdown of societal norms?
Does morality survive when religion is marginalized and immediate gratification is embraced?
Does the lack of training and education of a countries history and culture result in large groups of citizens no longer recognizing right or wrong?
When shocking headlines of crime and violence become routine and governments are overwhelmed, who do the people turn to?
When the violence...
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Two years after her husband's death in a bizarre suicide pact between players of an online game, Imogen is still reeling and desperate for answers.
Struggling to cope with her loss and isolation, she is sure that the strange messages she starts receiving are a figment of her imagination. Except that before he died her husband claimed to have had unusual experiences while in the game- experiences where he had been linked to other people, and heard...
35) Deadly Crystal
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A cyber-thriller short story
When Chayse's friend is murdered before he can get protective custody, she and her department in Homeland Security are thrust into a race to stop a destructive cyber worm from wiping out all bank and stock market records during the Christmas break. The good news is there is an inoculating code, which will stop the worm. The bad news is it is hidden in a special crystal concealed in the sculpted walls of a beautiful ice...
36) China Girl
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NEVER AGAIN. A fascist administration rounds up undesirables. Terrorist groups strike governmental and religious targets. The Constitution is under assault. But for the scattered members of INTEL 1, the nightmare is just beginning.
37) Sabotage
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A cruise ship loses power in the North Atlantic. A satellite launches in the South Pacific. Professor Malcolm Clare-celebrated aviator, entrepreneur, and aerospace engineer-disappears from Stanford University and wakes up aboard an unknown jet, minutes before the aircraft plunges into the high seas.
An extortionist code-named "Viking" has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a U.S. defense corporation against terrorist conspirators...
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The silicon chip, the soul of today's machines, governs every aspect of our modern society. Dominance in semiconductors equates dominance in the new millennium. But, something has gone wrong. A terrible railway accident in Florida, leaving dozens dead, and countless more injured is traced to faulty computer chips. One-woman figures out that the faulty chips weren't due to negligence, but to sabotage. Erika Conklin was forced to work for the FBI due...
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Dead Reckoning continues the paranormal thriller Dead series. Lethal sniper Kiki Russell and medic Nick Sabino come out of hiding to battle a massive attack on the United States that has plunged it into chaos, beginning the descent into dystopia. With the United States isolated from the world, the government struggles to hold the Union together after the collapse of the economy, the destruction of the electrical grid and a smallpox epidemic that have...
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"Distinctive characterizations" in this sci-fi fantasy "contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice" (Booklist).
Prisoners of a war they barely remember, Fremont's Children must find a way to survive in a world that abhors their very nature. Or they must discover a way to leave it . . .
Brenda Cooper's Fremont's Children series launches with her award-winning novel The Silver Ship and...
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