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Discover the inventions that changed our world! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about inventions that change how we live - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Which Inventions Changed the World? is a beautifully designed reader all about inventions that changed people's lives - from helping us to navigate or communicate...
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Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .
A mission that may be torn apart by the nation's turmoil . . .
The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous astronauts to set foot on the red planet and maintain our quest for the stars
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A techno-thriller novel of the near future when a powerful Artificial Intelligence called Oracle identifies individuals who pose a significant risk to the stability of our society, or who have a high probability of posing such a risk in the future, and sends assassins to kill them. Oracle knows each of us so well, better than we know ourselves, that it is able to determine who might become the next Hitler or Stalin long before that person even has...
4) Ghost Force
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The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving...... and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years-unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship-killingtorpedoes....
5) Nemesis
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Five days to save the world.
A shocking CIA report confirms Russia has deflected an asteroid on to a collision course with the United States. An elite team of the world's top astronomers have five days to identify the asteroid – codename Nemesis – and stop it.
If they fail, the President will retaliate with a massive nuclear strike.
But with time running out, British asteroid expert Oliver Webb discovers that its course was once predicted in...
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It's Watergate. On servers. On the eve of the presidential election, a conspiracy threatens to alter the outcome of the vote-and the future of American politics. At the heart of the plot is a powerful computer program, aimed at rooting out hypocrisy among politicians to expose their truths... and ours. Left to unravel the conspiracy is a bitter, hotheaded former journalist, but he's just not sure he cares enough to get to the bottom of it.
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In a derelict squat, the Smart Man watches as the new narcotic developed by his shadowy organisation wreaks havoc on it, unsuspecting victims. The drug is now ready for sale on their exclusive darknet marketplace. Elsewhere, DCI Robert Smith, the retired head of the Cyber Crimes Unit, seeks out crime boss Curtis Slater at his remote farm. He offers to provide Slater with information in exchange for money. But, what information is he offering? Meanwhile,...
8) Drumbeats
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This dark fantasy set in Africa is a collaboration between a New York Times–bestselling author and the drummer from the multi-platinum rock band, Rush.
A chilling tale of African drums and human souls from #1 international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart.
Early in their three decades of correspondence, Neil Peart sent Kevin J. Anderson extensive descriptions and travelogues of his...
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"The glimpses of aerial combat are brilliant" in this pulse-pounding RAF thriller, where it could be pilot error-or a sinister plot. (The Daily Telegraph).
They're supposed to be routine missions-but one by one, RAF Tempests are crashing in the midst of them. No one knows why, and the Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error.
Suspicious of a cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose own friends have been among the fatalities,...
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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...
11) Security Breach
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Clean suspense from USA Today and PW Bestselling author Vannetta Chapman. Four novellas.A multitude of cyber-terrorists.One mission-protecting America. Nora Brooks is the top agent on the Cyber Division team-not because of her coding skills, but because of her passion to catch those bent on destruction. Nora has a unique ability to assess a situation and put her finger on the one thing that doesn't fit, the one person who has an alternate agenda....
12) Cold Wallet
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Newly widowed Jess returns heartbroken from her honeymoon to find she now owns her dead husband's crypto-currency exchange. As a physician, she knows nothing about cryptocurrency and has to rely on Andrew's business partner Henry, a man she never liked, for advice. When the passwords to the Cold Wallets holding the company's assets go missing, the life Jess had so carefully constructed for herself spins out of control.No one is who they seem to be.Trust...
13) Insurrection
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An action-packed espionage techno-thriller featuring a British intelligence agent who must stop a terrorist attack on the United States.
Maverick British agent Paul Richter returns in his most dangerous mission yet.
In Syria, a ritualistic ISIS beheading seems like another barbaric part of a terrible war. But this time is different . . .
In London, Paul Richter is briefed about a series of apparently unconnected events, notably a...
14) Daybreak
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Nora Brooks and Randall Goodwin are hot on the trail of a new cyber-terrorist. This time the target is Seattle as well as the lucrative cruise ships docked there. All indications are that daybreak will bring unprecedented destruction.Who was nursing a vendetta against the largest city in the Pacific Northwest as well as the tourist industry?Nora Brooks has dealt with many different kinds of cyber criminals, but she's never come across one whose motive...
15) Shadowed
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For fifteen years, her name was Nicole Jones. Then her criminal past caught up to her. Now the brilliant computer hacker has reinvented herself once again, living as Susan McQueen on a remote island in Quebec, Canada. Susan lives a quiet life, but she hasn't given up her computer. While in an online chatroom, she discovers she has a shadow. Someone's hacked into her laptop-someone who knows who she is. Capable of watching her every move, they want...
16) Zapwired
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Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly " weaponize" the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the night of its nationwide launch, will thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents be slaughtered? These questions haunt Blair Anderson, the game' s distributor; and he alone can possibly uncover the truth and prevent the carnage. But that' s only for starters. Anderson' s daughter has been kidnapped and unless he cooperates,...
17) Hidden
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Nicole Jones lives off the grid. She doesn't have a driver's license, passport, or even a bank account. She definitely doesn't own a computer. Operating bike tours on Block Island, she hasn't left her New England refuge in fifteen years. But it's not that she's afraid of the world. She's afraid of what she could do to it if she ever plugged back in. Because Nicole Jones isn't her real name. Still wanted by the FBI, she was once one of the best cyber...
18) The Shark Mutiny
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An oil tanker mysteriously explodes in the Persian Gulf. Then a second... and a third. To the President's National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan it is more than a tragic coincidence-it is a brazen act of aggression that must not stand. In partnership with Iran, the Chinese navy has mined the Strait of Hormuz, intending to hold the world's oil supply hostage. Now eighty percent of America's active sea power is being mobilized-including U....
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What would happen if a nation-state really did launch a serious cyberattack against the United States, perhaps as part of something larger? Jerry Barkley never worked for the government. An IT contractor from Minnesota, he knows nothing about International espionage. But now he's on the front lines of the largest cyber-attack in history and nobody believes his warnings when Jerry discovers the attackers are gathering data to plan a series of bombings...
20) Return to Honor
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Five thousand miles from the U.S., the president of the United States is facing death.
In one hour, an American force will strike back-with the most daring rescue
mission ever!
The RDF-Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force-can strike anywhere in the
world in under an hour. Their secret weapon: the Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle flown at
15,000 miles per hour by the Air Force's most elite pilots, carrying a deadly cargo of
highly trained marines....
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