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541) Amok|Koma
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When a man wakes up in an illegal medical operation, he goes into amok and tries to escape. But will he manage to figure out what's wrong with him, when his mind is blurry from drugs, when the device strapped on his arm cannot be removed and when the voice in his head seems to know a lot more than he does?
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When a crashed helicopter could start a war-Miranda Chase is the woman to save the day.When the fastest and most powerful helicopters in the US Army's fleet start falling out of the sky, autistic air-crash genius Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB investigators are called in.One crash leads to another and they are fast entangled in a Chinese conspiracy to start a war over Taiwan. Only Miranda's team can stop the trade war from becoming a real one....
543) The Devil's Quota
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The devil is in the details when the one percent gets what the one percent wants... no matter what, no matter how much or how legal. NYPD Detective Mike DiMaggio is catapulted into an international conspiracy when the details of a not-so-routine murder investigation get his partner killed and him fired. His suspicion that Cassandra Cassidy, a sexual behavioral psychiatrist right out of the society pages, is somehow, connected to this syndicate proves...
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Storming the Gap First Strike reveals the explosive origins of the Third World War and delves into the opening salvos of the conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in a world where the Cold War turns hot in 1985.
This epic story is, told from a range of viewpoints, through the eyes of the decision-makers in Washington, as well as the tankers and infantry fighting through hills and towns of southern Germany.
Based partly on the scenarios from...
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Read Jeff Sheckter's exciting debut novel The Daedalus Protocol.
A deadly pathogen has been unleashed across the globe, killing livestock and destroying crops as it spreads. A near-extinction event from worldwide famine will be certain if it's not stopped in time.
A mysterious man known only as Daedalus, possessing advanced technology and seemingly unlimited resources, has assembled a crew of notable soldiers and scientists for a mission...
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When the political battlefield spreads to Antarctica, can the team survive the deep freeze?Those who work there call Antarctica "The Ice." A secret Russian cargo jet crashes into a crevasse near an Australian Station. The Aussies call in the top air-crash investigators on the planet.The best of them all, Miranda Chase, must face the Russians, Chinese, and use her own autistic abilities to keep her team alive. As the battle spreads across The Ice,...
547) Start the Chase
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Miranda Chase's Team-before they were one!Before they were the hottest, and most at-risk air-crash investigation team for the NTSB and the US military, the six members of Miranda Chase's team had each started along very unique paths.Courtesy of backers of The Great Chase tabletop game Kickstarter, their pasts are revealed. Discover why each team member's future turned out so differently than they planned.Six exciting stories filled with challenges,...
548) Gryphon
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With the rising threat of Russia, Sweden joins NATO for its own protection. But someone wants to make them pay-in blood.Sweden's home-built, world-class jet fighters, the Saab JAS 39E Gripen-named for the mythological Gryphon-are falling out of the skies.The stability, the very existence of NATO could be torn apart, as if trapped in the Gryphon's mighty eagle claws.Can Miranda's team of air-crash investigators solve the crisis before the powerful...
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Profile of a Drone Assassin Operator Ames had been recruited into the Righteous Wrath Unit 000 right out of the academy for many different reasons, one of which was the many championships he won in competitive online game tournaments. Of course, his ability to concentrate — a rare commodity in a world filled with attention deficit disorder Millenniums — and his unusually fast reflexes made him a prime candidate for the unit. But it was his total...
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USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell is leading his submarine team on a mission to lay SOSUS arrays under the ice in the Arctic when they clash with a new Alfa-class highly automated Soviet submarine. Overwhelmed by mechanical problems, the Soviet crew abandons their sub near Pt. Barrow, Alaska. The Teuthis skipper launches DSRV-1 Mystic, so Mac and his crew can board the empty sub and gather intelligence. The arrival...
551) Dealbreaker
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The bounceback volume 2
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Rubi Whiting has proved that humanity deserves a seat at the galactic table. She's convinced the galactic governing body that mankind deserves a chance at fixing their own problems, but there are still those in the galactic community that think that humanity is too poisonous and greedy to be allowed in. They will stop at nothing to sabotage their species.
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There is a growing buzz around the potential for science and technology to create significant "human enhancement" applications, such as bionic limbs, improved memory or cognition, or the ability to choose specific characteristics for our offspring. The possibilities stir the imagination and excitement of many, while for others the rhetoric and current research into human enhancement signals alarms of a new eugenics. And yet, for most non-scientists,...
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Barry Simmonds is a partner in a small-time law firm in Belize, a small not very rich Central American country squeezed between Guatemala and Mexico. His principal business is setting up and servicing offshore companies and bank accounts for British, Russians and whoever else wanted to hide their money or assets.Concealing the ownership of businesses and property behind opaque locally incorporated firms, for the purpose of tax avoidance, evasion and...
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now
Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business
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Someone wants revenge, and the target is the President's plane. When the mission looks impossible, the world calls upon UNACO. The world's most ingenious international criminal is bent on revenge... Two men with the same name and the same face And six of the most important men in the world aboard the President's plane... Who pushed the button that destroyed Air Force One? Why must everyone be killed? Are they really dead? In this game of deception...
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Tells the story of the maverick engineers and computer experts who triggered the autonomous vehicle revolution, and how self-driving vehicles will help reshape our society by liberating us from driving and owning vehicles, providing freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled, and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels.
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Who's the best teacher for scientists, engineers, AND designers?
Mother nature, of course!
When an inventor is inspired by nature for a new creation, they are practicing something called biomimicry. Meet ten real-life scientists, engineers, and designers who imitate plants and animals to create amazing new technology. An engineer shapes the nose of his train like a kingfisher's beak. A scientist models her solar cell on the mighty leaf. Discover...
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