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Department Z tracks down a doomsday weapon in an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author who sold eighty million books worldwide.
Professor Toller has created a weapon that could change the world as we know it. The threat is imminent as the professor and his formula are kidnapped, and it is left to the head of Department Z, Gordon Craigie, to save the day.
Department Z is a small and little-known faction of the intelligence...
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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...
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A couple desperate to have a child consider one unsettling option in this thriller by the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series.
After the tragic loss of their young son to a rare genetic disorder, John and Naomi discover they both carry a rogue gene. Having another child by conventional means is too much risk to bear.
When they find geneticist Dr Leo Dettore it seems like the answer to their prayers. Every aspect of the...
7) Brainchip
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Ein Thriller der Extraklasse! Dieser Roman wirft einen realen Blick in die atemberaubende Zukunft der Gehirnchip-Welt und der künstlichen Intelligenz. "Die Zukunft ist in dir!", das ist die unmissverständliche Aussage der Neuroforscher. Und diese einzigartige Zukunft hat längst begonnen. Genau hier. In diesem Buch. Sie wird sich schon bald und überall in unseren Köpfen abspielen. Mensch und Mikrochip werden eins. Schöne neue Welt der Nanos und...
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A chilling Dark Web thriller An anonymous website, a few clicks, and Joe Henderson's life is changed forever. 'The Red Room' is the only place where the failings of a weak justice system are righted and where the line between good and evil becomes blurred. When the lights go up, viewers bid, criminals are punished, and the Brotherhood of the Righteous broadcasts a show like no other. The room has remained hidden until now, when a video arrives in...
9) 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....
10) Madeira
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Value Engineer Rave Maps lost a vital business consulting opportunity working on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Then she nearly lost her life.
Rave's VE skills are tested as she struggles to fulfill client obligations racing from Madeira to Toronto, Paris, Steamboat Springs, and St. Lucia fighting to remain a step ahead of BrainRanger AI, an artificial intelligence working to steal her clients and appropriate everything she knows.
To survive,...
11) 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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How does a video on YouTube go viral? What would it be like to experience that? Or, what would it be like become a YouTube and internet sensation? Well, in 'adventures in cyberland', not only is this modern-day new phenomenon experienced by the reader, but also shows them the power of group creativity and working together as a team, regardless of what background and worldviews each roommate comes from.
And with this established in the first part...
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Freddie Lima is a technical unicorn who has worked as a Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, and Security Engineer with over 30 years of technology experience. Freddie's wife Ginger is the CEO of the company they co-own, All Things Operations (ATO). In "Growing Future Operators," Freddie shares his professional experiences through fiction.
Jack Whitaker is a technology curmudgeon who prides himself on teaching the classics. He has a great reputation...
15) Point of Impact
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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...
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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,...
18) 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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"For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been the authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. Her reporting is serious yet entertaining and illuminates deep truths about ourselves and the lives we create online. In her debut book, Extremely Online, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this...
20) 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....
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