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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory—his most mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland’s upcoming Netflix film. “Gloriously...

Was, wenn wir nicht einmal unseren Erinnerungen trauen können? Unsere Erinnerungen bestimmen die Wirklichkeit. Davon ist der New Yorker Detective Barry zutiefst überzeugt. Denn ein geheimnisvolles Phänomen quält seine Opfer mit falschen Erinnerungen - und treibt sie in den Tod. Die Hirnforscherin Helena weiß schon lange um die Kraft der Erinnerung. Sie erfand eine Technologie, die uns unsere wertvollsten Momente noch einmal erleben lässt: den ersten Kuss, die Geburt eines Kindes. Dann ging etwas schief, und nun bedroht ihre Erfindung das Schicksal der gesamten Menschheit.

Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo. En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante neurocientífica convencida de que es la memoria lo que determina la realidad.

Cómo rescatar la atención perdida en un mundo distraído e hiperconectado. Cada vez somos más impacientes y estamos más irritables. ¿Notas que te cuesta más prestar atención? ¿Has sentido ansiedad últimamente? ¿Toleras peor el aburrimiento y el dolor? Vivimos en la era de la gratificación instantánea, en la cultura de la inmediatez y las recompensas y buscamos la felicidad a golpe de clic. Llevamos una vida agitada e intensa, y con el modo fast activado. Sin darnos cuenta nos hemos convertido en drogodependientes emocionales inundados de múltiples distracciones.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

Sechs Mal wird die Motte auf seiner Brust zubeißen, bevor sie zurück zu ihrer Herrin fliegt und Jacob dem Tod überlässt...

Ein spektakulärer Science-Fiction-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Blake Crouch ("Dark Matter"). Amerika in der nahen Zukunft: Special Agent Logan Ramsay kommt bei einem Einsatz mit einer unbekannten Substanz in Berührung. Zunächst ohne Folgen, wie Logan erleichtert feststellt. Doch dann beginnt er, Veränderungen an sich zu bemerken. Seine Sinne sind geschärft, sein Erinnerungsvermögen ist unschlagbar, er ist körperlich fitter. Dass ausgerechnet er dieses "Upgrade" erfährt, hat einen Grund, der weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreicht.

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Dii Van Damme was having a bad week when the universe decided to sneeze, and accidentally uncovered some of its secrets. When the reality he knew turned out to be a lie, he reacted like any proper human would: improvise, adapt, and kill an evil snowman with a can of beans. Now, armed with a stolen cosmic power and an unhealthy amount of spite, he’s ready to power-play his way out of this nightmare. But the deeper he digs, the bigger the conspiracy.

It's first blood drawn as the white rabbit dangles the lives of innocents in the balance, forcing Malcolm to choose between his parents and a missing FBI agent. Yet Malcolm's attempts to stall for time and find a better solution open a doorway into the Golden Ratio Killer's thoughts, his secrets...and the truth of the past that made him who he is today. With the thread of the phone call stitching past and present together, Malcolm remains dangling on the wire while Seong-Jae and Joshi race to trace the signal and track the white rabbit down before anyone has to die.

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain...

Frustrated by her pathetically useless powers, Larkspur can only dream of being accepted by true elementals. And as the bastard daughter of the king, she lives under the constant wrath of his jealous wife. When she’s falsely accused of attacking the cruel woman, she must choose between military service or banishment...and both lead to certain death. Seizing her slim chance for survival, Lark embarks on training as a soldier for the unforgiving kingdom. But though she excels in her new role, it may not be enough to stay safe from a queen out for her blood.

It's been just weeks since the state funeral for the Sentinels, Atlas, Ajax, and Nimbus, lost in the Whittier Base Attack. Astra, Hope, is recovered from her own injuries. At least physically. Mentally... not so much, but she feels ready to actively wear the cape again. Which is good since, between the revelation of her short-lived relationship with Atlas and her virally pungent public comments on the current political debate over breakthrough registration (the National Public Safety Act), she needs to raise her profile. But she's better now, steady, ready for anything. Or is she?

Two centuries ago, the First Expansionary Fleet set off to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, hoping to explore, colonize, and conquer new worlds in the name of humanity. But when the fleet was violently and unexpectedly thrown off course, the colonists found themselves trapped in an unexplored region of the galaxy—and caught right in the middle of a bloody interstellar war. Now, after generations of relentless fighting, a tentative truce has finally ushered in an era of growth and prosperity.

Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen Talia was overthrown and slain, and her capital city destroyed by the Knights of the Order of Eternal Vigilance. Anskar DeVantte, raised in the sacred disciplines of the Order, is now ready to face the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer. But the further Anskar rises in the ranks the more his faith wavers. As troubling powers awaken within him, a schism grows between Anskar and his hallowed Order, and he draws the hungry gaze of the vanquished queen’s fanatical followers.

A man attempts to find himself after the onset of an invasion of hostile extra-dimensional beasts hunting humanity to extinction, with himself as no exception. But in a familiar yet foreign world where just about everyone or everything is trying to murder you, where is there to go? When you perish countless times over, what is there to be done? Follow him from a comatose state to discovering their new purpose in existence: fighting through monsters, human and otherwise, no matter how many times they must die.

The year is 2047, and teleportation is the cutting-edge transportation method of choice - Teleportation Services International (TSI) operates facilities in all of the world’s major cities. When Lillian, a TSI employee, wins a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation, she knows it’s just a photo op for the tech giant, but she takes the opportunity and books a trip to Tokyo with her husband Jackson and their six-year-old son Cole. But before they arrive, tragedy strikes: Cole disappears in transit.

Refresh is an explosive, powerful short story about a near-future dystopia in which citizens can commodify every waking moment of their lives with computer-generated augmented reality. But this ubiquitous, game-changing technology can create dangerous consequences, especially for society’s most vulnerable people.