Manufacturing Fiction

After the fall of OmniJoy’s virtual-reality empire, seventeen-year-old Maya Thorne becomes the world’s most wanted terrorist. The world she tried to free has surrendered to a new creation—The Mesh, a system that links human minds into one collective consciousness, erasing pain and conflict to create perfect, lasting peace. It promises unity—and it works. But peace built on forgetting has a price.

Infinite Worlds is the most popular VRMMORPG on the market. Its maps are so vast, developer Hard Rock Data utilizes a network of highly advanced artificial intelligences to control it. But it’s not without problems. That’s why Game Masters like Jeff Driscoll have jobs. The downside? He’s not allowed to play the game. Something about conflicts of interest and favoritism. His very boring and tedious job is to help players deal with the occasional bug that slips through the cracks and ensure they enjoy their time playing enough to give a five-star rating.

K8 isn’t buying the manupartner hype. She wants something real—messy, human, unfiltered. Everyone else is happy with programmable perfection. But when the box shows up, it’s too late to cancel. No returns. No refunds. Instead of the docile, made-to-order partner she expected, she gets James Alexander Fletcher: a sharp-tongued entrepreneur from 2035 with memories, opinions, and absolutely zero interest in being anyone’s customizable sweetheart.

The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. 'A shot of serotonin in book form'...

He promised peace. She remembers the cost. After the fall of OmniJoy’s virtual-reality empire, seventeen-year-old Maya Thorne becomes the world’s most wanted terrorist. The world she tried to free has surrendered to a new creation—The Mesh, a system that links human minds into one collective consciousness, erasing pain and conflict to create perfect, lasting peace. It promises unity—and it works. But peace built on forgetting has a price. When Maya’s capture thrusts her into the heart of the program, she faces a haunting choice: embrace the collective bliss of the Mesh or risk ...

Deep in the bowels of a starship… An android searches for a body. Trapped in her failing mechanical body, Margaret has a dream. She yearns to own hands to toss a salad. To possess fingers to knead the richest chocolate dough. For a tongue to taste the joys of her creations. Margaret longs to cook. First, she’ll have to find the perfect human parts to harvest. But there’s a policeman hunting her through the maintenance tunnels of Anchora. And he’s not going to stop until he finds her. Or dies trying… If you enjoyed the gritty pulse-pounding dystopia of Defragmenting Daniel, ...

Margaret wakes… A mash of shattered parts on the sidewalk, In a dying city she can’t remember. Margaret’s hydraulic fluid has all but evaporated. Her servo motors grind. Batteries ache for power. Her memory is corrupted beyond repair. Because the Bubble has changed… How will she survive the radiocative dust storms and unbearable heat, while police hunt her through the underbelly of a collapsing city? Margaret’s plight seems hopeless, until she discovers the kindness of a stranger. And a ticket to a destination her neurocircuitry couldn’t imagine… Manufacturing Margaret is the ...

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The audiobook edition of this work is narrated by a synthetic voice. No human speaker performed these sentences. The author chose a synthetic narrator because the book asks the listener to examine every bargain between the real and the fabricated, including this one. If the voice troubles you, the trouble is the point. If it does not, that is also worth examining. A counterfeit banknote and a diplomatic white lie are both, in some reductive sense, "fake." Calling them by the same name obscures everything important about them: the intent behind each, the social function each serves, the harm...

Hugh McVey is an inventor who moves from Missouri to Bidwell, Ohio. He creates a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the workload of farmers, but an investor exploits his product. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a fortune and transforms the small town in Ohio into a center of manufacturing. McVey, lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends Ohio State.

Summoned home from college by her ailing father to take over the family’s struggling business, Lydia Merchant finds herself surrounded by strangers and expected to please them all. When Merchant Manufacturing’s books will not balance and every one of her employees seem to be working against her, Lydia must rely on her sixth sense and trust her zany instincts as never before. Those instincts are challenged even further when she finds herself the object of three men’s obsessions and she is forced to trust her heart to recognize love. As she uncovers the industrial espionage that ...

Set in the American Century from 1814 to 2003, An American Family Sampler is a chronicle of five generations who built and ultimately destroyed a great company. From its mercantile roots through country banking then morphing into a manufacturing and shipping giant and eventually becoming a financial powerhouse, the company, Prescotts, waxed and waned with America. Although based on a real life events, a story about a company is boring. What will keep reader interest are the stories of the family, its members, workers, spouses, friends and enemies. The thread binding these diverse characters...

When struggling would-be mother Emma Rourke receives a chilling email containing a photo of a newborn named Ava, her first instinct is denial. The baby is perfect. Familiar. And impossible. Emma hasn’t adopted. She hasn't been approved. She hasn’t even applied in months. But the updates keep coming. No sender. No explanation. Just images, items, and memories—of a child she never met but somehow remembers. When a shadowy biotech company emerges from the digital fog, Emma uncovers a secret project designed to rewrite the rules of parenthood—where mothers are chosen not by fate, but by formula.

The Dust Bowl uprooted a lot of families and orphaned even more children. No one knows this better than Nat, a teenager who rides the rails from town to town looking for work. After helping a girl accused of witchcraft, Nat stumbles upon a home for wayward children run by a vibrant woman named Camille. She takes in children who have been thrown away and teaches them how to use their untapped potential to do extraordinary things...like magic.

Il est des livres qui voyagent de lecteur en lecteur, des bibliothèques dont on hérite et qui recèlent leur part de mystère. C'est ainsi qu'au milieu de cartons de livres anciens qui lui viendraient d'un grand-oncle libraire, un homme découvre un carnet. Une couverture cartonnée, épaisse, renforcée d'un tissu sombre, vierge de tout titre.

Quand Layla Beck accepte de devenir rédactrice pour le compte d'une agence gouvernementale, elle s'imagine déjà en route vers le prix Pulitzer. Hélas, on la charge de rédiger l'histoire de Macedonia, une petite ville de Virginie, et de sa manufacture de chaussettes. C'est peu de dire que le projet ne l'emballe guère et que l'été s'annonce sinistre.

Un portrait de femme moderne, active, rebelle, qui fait bouger les lignes, voilà ce que cherchent tous les éditeurs pour la prochaine rentrée littéraire. Et parmi eux, Delafeuille a intérêt, s’il veut garder son poste, à dénicher le livre qui sera au centre de l’attention en septembre. Mais contre toute logique commerciale, le roman qui l’attire vraiment est celui de Luc, auteur un rien misogyne auquel il est depuis longtemps lié. L’écrivain a décidé de consacrer son texte à Delphine, sa femme, et cette dernière que Delafeuille rencontre dans la vraie vie, devient son obsession.

22 janvier 1905. Paris se presse à la suite du cortège funéraire de Louise Michel, icône légendaire de la Commune. Parmi les ouvriers, la jeune Jeanne Desroselles, travestie en femme du peuple, se mêle à la foule. Idéaliste et militante, cette jeune héritière fréquente depuis quelques mois les rassemblements publics, vibrant des revendications de ceux qui luttent pour la justice et la liberté. Mais ce matin d'hiver sera pour Jeanne le dernier.

🏭 A Factory on the Brink. A Leader With Nothing to Lose. A Story You'll Never Forget. In a forgotten corner of a city once fueled by industry, a dying factory awaits its final shift. But when a new plant manager, Yusuf Kamal, walks through its rusted gates, he sees more than decay—he sees potential. With little time and no trust, Yusuf must rally a weary workforce, confront hidden resistance, and breathe life into aging machines and broken processes. "The Factory That Remembers" is a fast-paced, cinematic business novel that blends drama, leadership, and Lean transformation. Inspired ...

Are you brave enough to face the terrifying truth lurking behind your neighbor's perfect smile? "Manufactured Minds" isn't just a story – it's a heart-stopping journey into suburban hell that will rewire your brain! Prepare for an adrenaline-fueled rollercoaster as Elise Thompson unravels a sinister conspiracy that will make your skin crawl. You'll feel the paranoia creeping in, questioning everything you thought you knew.