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Ryan Cloverhill, founder and CEO of the world’s most popular social media platform, invites his six best friends from college to his home on his private island near Puget Sound. For Stephen, Emma, Perry, Will, Beau, and Lainie, day one is just what the doctor ordered: amazing food, many drinks, lots of laughter, and a sunset cruise around the island aboard their host’s custom Van Dutch 55. Day Two, however, takes a bewildering turn when the six hungover guests wake up to find that their host has disappeared, along with all connection to the mainland.

Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blacks out when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain's pleasure centers.

The hugely powerful and pervasive presence of the Colossus supercomputer mechanically runs Earth and its myriad operations. Managed by its creator, Dr. Charles Forbin, it is incapable of lies and void of human emotion. It is not a robot and not human. As part of its brief to enhance the human race, it runs eerie emotion research centers, authorizing acts of savagery to measure resistance and feeling. Art and abstract creation are banned, and surveillance is constant. No one is free.

Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe were the perfect couple: young, attractive, and ideally matched. But the veil of perfection can mask many blemishes. When the Thorpes are found dead in their tasteful Flagstaff living room (having committed double suicide), alarms go off in the towering Manhattan offices of Eden Incorporated, the high-tech matchmaking company whose spectacular success and legendary secrecy have inspired awe around the world.

A wave of apparently random homicides is sweeping through their idyllic seaside town of Helsingborg. The murders have no pattern, no order, no reason. The perpetrator is immune to psychological profiling; forensically untraceable; utterly invulnerable to modern police techniques. The body count is growing. But lead investigator Fabian Risk is distracted by his mission to expose a corrupt colleague, and his boss Astrid is spiralling back into addiction. As the hunt for the solution becomes ever more desperate, their tight-knit team begins to unravel.

Die Welt im Ausnahmezustand - Don DeLillos neuer Roman ist das (Hör-)Buch der Stunde. Nur wenige Wochen vor Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie schloss Don DeLillo die Arbeit an seinem neuen Roman ab. Ein Werk mit verblüffenden Parallelen zur aktuellen Situation in der Welt. Ein literarischer Meilenstein. New York im Jahr 2022: Es ist der Super Bowl Sunday. In einer Wohnung auf der East Side von Manhattan wollen fünf Menschen gemeinsam das Finale der American Football-League im Fernsehen anschauen.

When linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert, he has no idea he's been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon. He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science personnel to try and figure out if the creature is, indeed, Satan. But things quickly go bad, and very soon Andy isn't just fighting for his life, but the lives of everyone on earth…

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel aus reiner Antimaterie!

Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-Mi6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate.

From New York Times best-selling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.

The thrilling conclusion to The Extinction Files is finally here! In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered 30 years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes - human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel what it meant. Kraus hid his work and disappeared.

Jack Porter ist ein deutscher Versicherungsagent. Als sein bester Freund Markus von einem gefährlichen Cyber-Angriff auf einen Pharmakonzern berichtet, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Plötzlich findet sich Jack mitten unter den kriminellen Hackern wieder. Er muss versuchen, eine Katastrophe von globalem Ausmaß zu verhindern. Ein tödliches Spiel beginnt.

Nanomaschinen sind zum alltäglichen Begleiter in der Arbeitswelt geworden. Sei reduzieren manuelle Arbeiten, erleichtern den Arbeitsalltag und sind in vielen Lebensbereichen nicht mehr weg zu denken. Trotz ihrer Flexibilität und Multifunktionalität gibt es noch immer Bereiche, in die sie nicht vordringen dürfen. Dort arbeiten weiterhin Menschen. Menschen wie Erwin, der Hausmeister. Dies ist seine Geschichte. "Die Geschichten der Apokalypse" ergänzen die Romanreihe Bilder der Apokalypse.

People like Emmy Jackson. They always have. Especially online, where she is Instagram sensation Mamabare, famous for telling the unvarnished truth about modern parenthood. But Emmy isn’t as honest as she’d like the fans to believe. She may think she has her followers fooled, but someone out there knows the truth and plans to make her pay....

Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side—not to mention armed fighters pulling alongside to force them to land—the confused pilots discover that Flight 10 is streaking back toward the hyper-volatile Middle East, and there is nothing they can do about it. 

Death-row inmate Russell Harris and nine other convicts are given the chance to save their lives by agreeing to travel as test subjects on the transporter. But when the first volunteer dies a gruesome death, it becomes clear to Russell and his comrades that the venture is little more than a merciless death mission on which they will all perish. The surviving Transporter project members find themselves on a new planet and establish a colony alongside a group of abandoned soldiers and scientists. But mortal peril approaches, and the battle for survival has only just begun.

Leo is the best hacker in Argentina. He loves technology and works in IT security for a big company. Everything goes fine until he hears about a crime. A young girl was killed in her own apartment. There is not a single clue, but there is a laptop and a smartphone. The police call Leo to analyze the devices and help them solve the crime. ...El Hacker is the 10th book of the Spanish Novels Series [and]...packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations.... Anyone who has a basic command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book.

A mysterious internet figure, known only as Mr. Boy, is preying on depressed teenagers and brainwashing them into horrific acts of self-harm and suicide. The macabre message behind "The Dropout Challenge" is simple: Drop out of sight. Drop out of school. Drop out of society. Drop out of life altogether.

Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.

Nachdem sie um ein Haar den Tod in der Antarktis auf der Suche nach einer legendären Eisstation gefunden hätten, bittet der exzentrische Milliardär Dave Purdue die Historikerin Nina Gould und den Journalisten Sam Cleave abermals um Hilfe. Auf der Suche nach einem verschwundenen Wartungsunterseeboot seiner Ölplattform Deep Sea One entdeckt er auf dem Meeresboden das Wrack eines gesunkenen deutschen U-Bootes aus dem zweiten Weltkrieg.