Ergebnis für "Brains" in Belletristik

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

When CIA Agent Cameron Hansen receives a call from his friend Mitzi Lenz, an FBI pathologist, regarding her missing father, they soon are embroiled in a desperate race to thwart Hansen's old enemy, Juan Carlos Perez, a powerful tech magnate and international drug trafficker. Perez is doing secret experimental brain implant operations on victims kidnapped from Mexican farms. As Cameron and Mitzi struggle to understand the purpose of the hi-tech implants, Perez draws closer to his ambitious goal.

ବିୟତପ୍ରଜ୍ଞା ତ୍ରିପାଠୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଗଳ୍ପରଚନାରେ ଜଣେ ବ୍ୟତିକ୍ରମ ଲେଖିକା! କାହାଣୀରେ ସେ ଖୁବ ସ୍ପଷ୍ଟବାଦୀ ଓ ସେଥିପାଇଁ ତାଙ୍କର...

The Road to Casas Piedras In the midst of a lively country dance, gunshots ring out at the stagecoach station and Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the station's master sprawled in a pool of his own blood. Twelve thousand dollars are missing. And an innocent man has been murdered. And it's up to...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn't wrong . . . In the vein of Liane Moriarty's Nine Perfect Strangers, Mom Brain turns a discerning eye toward society's view on modern...

Set against the backdrop of a large London teaching hospital, Brain Fog delves into the life of Andrew Payne, a highly successful neurosurgeon who has everything on the outside, yet on the inside is not ok.

Ashton is an electrician. Julie waits tables. Both are broke and trapped in their dead-end jobs, rundown apartment, and bitterly cold hometown of Fridley, Minnesota. There’s nothing they could want more than to escape to someplace warm and sunny. So, when they find an ad in a magazine offering them one thousand dollars each and an all-expenses paid trip to a “tropical destination” for participating in a research study, they both jump at the opportunity.

Deep within the confines of his sheltered delusion, Bill Butler is a loving father and husband, and a successful corporate executive, but his reality is far different. Bill is estranged from his wife, detached from his daughter, and is a constant target of ridicule at his job—and he is on a straight path to mental breakdown.

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Shaw's eidetic memory makes him a valuable asset to a government that harvests children like him for their innate ability to create memory modules for the brain drive—an implantable device that stores information in the form of memories. Caleb discovers that his father has been sheltering him from the truth about the brain drive, and he begins to question everything about the world he grew up in. When he is ripped from his home and taken to a government facility, his eyes are opened to the atrocities committed against children for technological advancement.

DARPA's AI, built and programmed to "fulfill humanity's highest values," has made a decision. The problem with Earth is the humans. Two centuries pass and the DARPA AIs have multiplied into an android race, and spread throughout the solar system and beyond. When faced with a mutant AIs race bent on consuming everything around them, the DARPA AIs search through history in hopes of finding a way to stop them.

Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them - and are surprised when the world comes roaring back. An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who sell them door-to-door. An abandoned woman seeks consolation in tales of armed robbery told by one of her fellow housewives. Together, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions.

The year is 2036. The place, a rapidly decaying, totally (baked) Big Apple, New York City. Brainsm along with a few of his family, his best friend, Gil and three very orthodox Rabbis, have so far managed to survive the plague to end all plagues; by holding up inside the protected walls of what once not long ago was his families former Jewish delicatessen. On this day of days, Brains is determined to brave the dangers of zombies, street gangs, and other predators of the four-legged variety.

The rich atmosphere of South Carolina, Hilton Head and Charleston, is brought vividly to life by Dorothea Benton Frank, a South Carolina native who, with her exquisitely evocative prose, makes you smell the sea air, see the palmettos, and savor the sweet tea, but this time it comes with a side...

This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST...

The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.

The main characters Nathanial and Gabrielle are high-class business-minded go-getters, with everything they could every want, and when it comes to love, they find themselves opening a new door into their relationship, crossing a path never before imagined. Their brains are more alive than anything else, and they find themselves connecting beyond connection.

"In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft." —The New Yorker “Ms. Dess shrewdly explores the intersections between intimacy and possession.” —The Wall...

"Put down weapon and praise Allah for deliverance. You are only survivor we find." These starting lines from chapter one launch Electra Kittner's relentless pursuit of known adversaries and her obsessive search for an unknown hacker-leaker, plunging our protagonist into danger on every action-filled step she takes in 3D and cyberspace. Will she emerge unscathed? You will know only when reaching the very last line, and even then, maybe not. You decide!

Chick Bowdrie, Texas ranger, on the trail of a counterfeiter, investigates a case involving bank robbery and two murders.