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Thursday 1st September 2039. On the centenary of the Second World War, atheist scientist Chris Deckers exploits the planet's most powerful computer to reveal something so cataclysmic it makes five thousand years of recorded human history–wars, empires, revolutions, the lot–look like an underwhelming warm-up act.

WARNING: SEMANTIC ERROR ALERT! Computer science major Sangwoo Choo lives by the following tenets: reason, routine, and rules. So it makes perfect sense for him to delete his group members’ names from the project they contributed nothing to. If that inadvertently destroys their immediate future...

Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" - he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping. He could disappear quietly. He could play it safe. He could, for once in his miserable existence, do the sensible thing. But he doesn't. He never does.

Former ADA turned defense lawyer Lainey Abbott is beginning to worry. It looks like the rest of her professional life will be spent representing dope boys in stop-and-frisk cases, just to help keep the lights on at her and Greg Knight’s law practice. Then a star football player from an elite college shows up at their door. A young, beautiful classmate, with whom he had an erratic three-month fling, was just found dead, and right away he’s in the NYPD’s crosshairs. Could be a fairly straightforward case to defend. Or maybe not. He's Black, and the missing girl is white.

Herzklopfen trotz Fehlermeldung: die deutsche Light Novel zum bekannten Webtoon und dem gleichnamigen K-Drama! Die Welt des perfektionistischen und disziplinierten Informatikstudenten Chu Sangwoo wird vom Campusstar des Design Departments Jang Jaeyoung auf den Kopf gestellt. Unerwartete Konflikte wirbeln Jaeyoungs Studienpläne auf und zwingen die beiden, unfreiwillig zusammenzuarbeiten. Was als Zusammenstoß zweier Gegensätze, Feindschaft und Unverständnis beginnt, führt zu einer plötzlichen Annäherung und einer Reise persönlicher und emotionaler Entwicklungen.

A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room, even though he isn't diabetic. An ulcer patient dies of shock after receiving a transfusion of the wrong blood type. A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of medication and suffers a fatal heart attack. Brain surgeon Dr. Tyler Matthews suspects that something is seriously wrong with the hospital's new "Med-InDx" computerized medical record system. But he doesn't suspect that there's something murderously wrong with it.

Sailing to London, Sophia Braighton only hopes to escape certain ruin. But when she arrives, her Great Aunt Daphne has other plans for the American-born beauty. Determined to marry off her niece to a man of means, she propels Sophia into London society, not knowing that the young woman’s trust in men is shattered. In fact, Sophia never expects to ever feel anything for a man. Then again, she never expects to find herself in the company of the dashing earl of Marlton….

A death foretold. A truth footnoted. A bureaucracy panicking. Decimus Flaccus was just a scribe. Quiet, diligent, and very nearly forgettable—until he accidentally overheard a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. Now he’s juggling misplaced prophecies, bribable omens, one extremely combustible laundress, and Rome’s worst-kept secret. His job? File a report. His plan? Stay unnoticed. His mistake? Telling the truth.

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the Pacific. When Mark Trevelyan dies on a journey to a remote Pacific atoll, the verdict that it was natural causes doesn’t convince his brother, Mike. The series of violent attacks that follows only adds to his suspicions. Just two clues...

Sie haben ihn gebaut, um ihren Müll zu beseitigen. Stellt sich heraus, sie sind die Nächsten. Tedd ist ein Mülldroid mit einer „Anomalie“ er kann selbständig denken. Management will ihn eingeschmolzen sehen, und sein vorlautes Mundwerk hilft ihm nicht gerade. Er könnte still und leise verschwinden. Er könnte auf Nummer sicher gehen. Er könnte, zum ersten Mal in seiner elenden Existenz, das Vernünftige tun. Aber das tut er nicht. Das tut er nie. Wenn du Douglas Adams, John Scalzi oder Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries liebst, wirst du dies verschlingen.

A hilarious novel set amid the Merchant Marine Academy. Commodore Dickey, the pompous second in command at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, desperately wants the top job, presently occupied by the skirt chasing Admiral Johnson. Dickey goes into cahoots with Mogie Mogelefsky, the imperious, bullying mayor of neighboring Great Neck to oust Johnson. When they succeed in exposing him in yet another peccadillo, Mogie suddenly reneges on their deal.

In a creative twist, a fatally ill man’s great humanitarian act is to seek out and kill someone deserving of death; but the horror of an innocent man being accused of the murder was not an outcome Mr Todhunter, or the friends who advised him, considered. His job is then to prove his own guilt. Dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse, the story is suspenseful, inventive and humorous, with a riveting attention to detail and a profound suggestion of the absurdity of trying to influence destiny.

A mysterious illness is plaguing pregnant women, and two doctors must put their past aside to find a cure. As the stakes get personal, can they uncover a treatment before it's too late? Dr. Jack Wyatt is done sulking. When he's called to help his frantic best friend, whose newly-pregnant wife...

Soy Brooke Keegan. Soy fisioterapeuta, nací en un adorable pueblecito de Wyoming y vivo en Boston. Tengo dos amigos muy ocupados, un exnovio que nunca fue «novio» y el sueño de abrir mi propia clínica. Mi vida es estable. Demasiado estable. Necesito cambios. Por eso acepté entregar un mensaje que no debía. El remitente: una amiga de la familia. El destinatario: él, el niño insufrible que recuerdo, ahora convertido en un abogado arrogante, con corbatas espantosas, memoria selectiva y una capacidad sobrenatural para cambiar de opinión cada cinco minutos.

An unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The Party The convention of a book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I adequately convey in only 150 words the complexity and bewilderment of the past ten months and the effect the events that...

Stuck in a traffic jam, Nicki Clements sees a face she hoped never to see again. It's definitely him, the same police officer, stopping each car on Elmhirst Road. Keen to avoid him, Nicki does a U-turn and makes a panicky escape. Or so she thinks. The next day, Nicki is pulled in for questioning...

Munir Habib’s life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or they will pay a terrible price. But a friend realizes something is terribly wrong and tells Munir he doesn’t have to go to the cops. There’s a guy who fixes situations like this - Repairman Jack. Jack is backed into helping Munir despite his ongoing involvement in the cosmic shadow war between the Ally and the Otherness. Or perhaps because of it.

Navy SEAL meets gamer geek in this opposites-attract, forced proximity romance from bestselling author Annabeth Albert It’s typical of video game programmer Josiah Simmons to be the last one on the plane on the way to the biggest meeting of his career. Though he’s (mostly) coping with his...

Parker Wu’s life was cut short after a tragic encounter with a very large truck. But when one existence ended, another far more bizarre one began. Reincarnated and transported to the Continent—a world of swords and sorcery in which an all-powerful being known as the Eternal King reigns supreme—Parker is no longer a corporeal being. It seems the Continent has other plans for the late Earthling . . . As it turns out, Parker is now a System, a non-player entity whose purpose is to help a player succeed.

When Lily is offered a ticket out of the career and life she hates, she takes it. Even if it means signing a contract to marry the attractive but aloof Sebastian Miller for five years. Her job is simple: play the happy housewife and she will get awarded a million dollars of her inheritance. That money is more than enough for her to start a life on her own and away from her controlling parents. But four years in, she's more than ready to be done with this marriage. She's pretty sure her husband hates her, and she longs for the freedom the end of their contract will bring.