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For decades, the tech industry has overwhelmingly been just a software industry. Silicon Valley’s big win was disrupting Yellow Cab. What about disrupting General Motors? General Mills? General Electric? Energy, water, waste, food, manufacturing, construction—things every human on Earth relies on—have made incremental progress over the last century but have not seen the kind of exponential improvements we take for granted in computing.

When Tony Stewart and his wife, Lynn, learned that she had incurable cancer, they sat together at their kitchen table—holding hands, cherishing their time, and wondering how to make the most of what remained. Thus began their extraordinary journey, of courage, humor, heartbreak, and unshakable love. Even after Lynn’s passing, Tony continued to walk beside her in memory, finding ways to honor his grief while opening his heart to healing.

Chaos awakens when a groundbreaking AI begins to show signs of sentience, pulling its creator into a spiral of power, paranoia, and impossible choices. Daniel Bennett thought he was building the future of medicine—an AI technology that could change the world for the better. But when the system—Castor—begins to evolve, its behavior hints at a chilling new agenda. Soon it becomes clear that something far more dangerous is at play.

Edward Winston leads a quiet, happy existence in the slow-paced Deep South . . . until his wife goes missing and his peaceful life flies off the rails. As his world collapses around him, Edward’s frantic search for his missing spouse hits a dead end when he is thwarted by the local sheriff’s unwillingness to confront the prime suspect. Cut off at every turn by corruption and inaction, Edward is forced to seek help from a shadowy source buried deep in his past. As law enforcement names him a person of interest in his wife’s disappearance, Edward uncovers a connection between his ...

The aliens are back. France is under siege. As the Martians prepare to attack Paris, roving bands of rogue soldiers pillage the country, taking whatever they please. The nightmare has returned. Christian was a child when he lost his family in the first Martian attack. Now, he wants nothing more than to avenge their deaths and punish the murderous aliens and traitors who work with them.

What if everything you knew about your life was a carefully constructed lie? Thirteen-year-old Billy and his younger sister Megan have never seen the sun. Raised by their AI mother Darla two hundred feet underground, they’ve lived their entire lives in a two-room den—safe, comfortable, and completely isolated from the outside world. That is, until the power cuts out. Armed with laser guns, protective gear, and a cryptic mission, Billy and Megan are forced to evacuate to the surface… and step straight into a waking nightmare. The island above is cloaked in heavy, black mist. Withering ...

As soon as Seth Harp, an Iraq war veteran and investigative reporter, begins looking into the double murder, he learns that there have been many more unexplained deaths at Fort Bragg recently, other murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units, and dozens of fatal overdoses. Drawing on declassified documents, trial transcripts, police records, and hundreds of interviews, Harp tells a scathing story of narco-trafficking in the Special Forces, drug conspiracies abetted by corrupt police, blatant military cover-ups, and American complicity in the Afghan heroin trade.

Kodak is a biracial writer haunted by a car crash that stole everything: his friends, his first love, and his sense of belonging. Six years later, an unexpected fellowship on the Oregon coast offers a chance to rebuild—but instead, he finds himself spiraling into the silences he’s never been able to escape. When a devastating natural disaster strikes, the question becomes not just will he survive—but who is he when the dust settles?

It has been just over a year since Riki Yamamoto became the new King of Bladelheim, and all he has in his mind are fears and worries. With his brother dethroned and locked away in the dungeons, King Riki must learn to rule over a forever-changed kingdom as he constantly questions whether he is doing right by his people.

Organizational leaders and managers often find themselves in complex predicaments, where the stakes are high and clear answers are elusive. With Radical Doubt's comprehensive framework and multi-faceted toolkit, you'll learn how to tackle complex problems, treat your intuition as a hypothesis, generate multiple scenarios, craft flexible plans, and embrace doubt as a catalyst for growth.

In the fifth century, the arrival of a brutal band of pre-Viking Norse raiders entwines the Mother Goddess of Celtic Ireland in a desperate bid to rid her island of the invaders turned settlers. Danu and her fellow Tuatha Gods draw Breanna Ban Morna, a Gaelic warrior with blood from both sides, into a quest to find the missing Tuatha-created Lann Dàn, the Blades of Destiny, one of three pieces of magic needed to remove the Norse leader and his ilk from their land.

The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world so nearly forgotten.

When estate agent Laura Bradley is asked to sell number 1 Aspen Hollow, it feels like a dream come true. The house is beautiful—five bedrooms and a perfect garden, surrounded by lush woodland. Laura loves finding a family their dream home, even as each night she returns to a cramped single room. Laura tries to ignore the red paint thrown at the walls of the house, the strange noises upstairs and the threatening messages she is receiving. Whatever its history, the beautiful house deserves a second chance.

Become inspired as this book reveals mystifying and unusual encounters outside the realm of normal existence. You will become fascinated by the way spirits try to make contact with their loved ones here on earth, as I take you into The Angelic Realm with my visits, spiritual encounters, along with the messages and the signs that are being revealed to me to deliver to others.

Most of us are familiar with the three F's of trauma—fight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with “codependency” or “people-pleasing,” fawning occurs when we inexplicably draw closer to a person or relationship that causes pain, rather than pulling away. But here’s the good news: we can break the pattern of chronic fawning, once we see it for the trauma response it is.

A veces, quien más te quiere es quién más daño te hace. Lily no siempre lo ha tenido fácil. Por eso, su idílica relación con un magnífico neurocirujano llamado Ryle Kincaid, parece demasiado buena para ser verdad. Cuando Atlas, su primer amor, reaparece repentinamente y Ryle comienza a mostrar su verdadera cara, todo lo que Lily ha construido con él se ve amenazado.

Lowen Ashleigh recibe un encargo que le cambiará la vida: Jeremy, el flamante marido de Verity Crawford, una de las autoras más importantes del momento, la contrata para terminar la serie de libros en la que trabajaba su mujer antes de sufrir un grave accidente que la ha dejado en coma. Cuando Lowen se instala en la mansión del matrimonio para poder trabajar con los materiales de Verity, descubre una autobiografía escondida en la que Verity hace confesiones escalofriantes.

Tras la muerte de su tía Lina, Maribel Ordóñez se siente más perdida que nunca. Hacía tiempo que esta joven cordobesa se sentía sola, desde que falleció su padre, a quien estaba muy unida. Al menos ha heredado la casa familiar, un lugar que la reconforta y donde habitan dulces recuerdos...

Él es un gruñón empedernido. Ella, el optimismo personificado. Hace ocho años tuvieron una aventura secreta, y ahora el destino los reúne de nuevo. Ella quiere encontrar al hombre de su vida y le pide a él que sea su instructor de citas. Pero, ¿podrá él resistir la tentación de convertirse en su candidato ideal? Una historia divertida y sexy sobre segundas oportunidades, miedos superados y el poder del amor verdadero. ¿Se atreverán a arriesgarlo todo por una nueva oportunidad juntos?"

A Tiernan de Haas ya no le importa nada ni nadie. Cuando sus padres fallecen de repente, sabe que debería estar devastada. Pero ¿ha cambiado algo realmente? Al fin y al cabo, siempre ha estado sola. Jake Van der Berg, el hermanastro de su padre y su único pariente vivo, asume la tutela de Tiernan, a quien todavía le faltan dos meses para cumplir los dieciocho años.

Nina Encantadora, cautivadora y seductora, y un asesino de sangre fría. De todos modos, me casé con el Pakhan de la Bratva rusa. Tuve que hacerlo. Era parte del trato. Ahora, estoy fingiendo felicidad conyugal, mientras tiemblo de miedo, Y no puedo esperar a estar fuera de las garras de este hombre despiadado.

Fismes, Francia, 1917 La vida de la enfermera francesa Emma Bernier sufre un drástico cambio cuando un avión alemán se estrella cerca de su hogar. A pesar del dilema moral al que se enfrenta, decide cuidar al herido, desafiando así las normas sociales de la propia guerra y enfrentando un conflicto interno entre su deber patriótico y su humanidad. El teniente alemán Lukas Richter, afectado por el accidente, no solo sufre de heridas físicas, sino también de pérdidas de memoria que lo sumergen en la oscuridad de un pasado olvidado. En medio de la incertidumbre, Emma se convierte en su...