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From the author, an economist, this book is an examination of innovation and success, and where to find them in America. An unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth is under way in America, and it is likely to accelerate in the years to come. America's new economic map shows growing differences, not just between people but especially between communities. In this book, the author provides a fresh perspective on the tectonic shifts...
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Allison Quinn has one mission-to find the person who killed her father.Her job as a senior agent for Homeland Security just might help her do that. A cyber terrorist named Worm has threatened to release an EMP over the Seattle area, collapsing the northwestern communication and transportation sector.Allison has a vendetta to keep and a job to do. She vows to stop the terror attack and, in the process, interrogate Worm about her father's murder. Allison...
4) Firefox
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The New York Times–bestselling Cold War thriller: It's the most advanced stealth fighter ever developed, and his job is to steal it from the Soviets . . .
The Soviets have created a new plane equipped with a weapons system that can be activated via sensors in the pilot's helmet-an advance that could shift the global balance of power. But British intelligence has a plan. There are two prototypes within the heavily secured Soviet base, and with...
5) The Requital
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The Requital, a thriller by Bruce Allsman Dr. Avinash Gupta is a billionaire, a domotics pioneer and inventor of ISHANA, Integrated Smart Home and Networked Appliances, a state-of-the-art home automation system. Avinash and his wife, Shayla, live in their new home that is equipped with ISHANA. When unusual things begin to happen, he investigates and discovers that a malicious hacker, Peter Newman, a former employee with an axe to grind, is gradually...
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The Central Intelligence Agency has a hidden hand in the tech world, controlling an intricate web of corporate entities carefully concealed from the public. All for their own nefarious ends - to gather intelligence, weaponize social media outlets, and craft the ultimate human agent.Journalist James Lewis uncovered the truth that threatened to reveal the CABAL's activities and so they acted swiftly to silence him and his editor, Daphne Meyers before...
7) 8 Down
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"An amazing, breath-stealing, knuckle-biting thrill of a ride!"
--Lynette Eason, award-winning, best-selling suspense author
8 bodies down.
8 more lives at stake.
Investigator Carrie Kintz is new blood with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation in Anchorage. But with a serial killer on the loose, there's no easing into the job. It's sink or swim. The only clues to help law enforcement stop this madman are the taunts he drops into crossword puzzles...
8) Gadget
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From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is "a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy" (The New York Times).
An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his way home from his job at a German nuclear institute when he is rammed off the road and abducted by terrorists. Drugged and taken to a secret location, he wakes to find himself being held hostage alongside his...
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Allison Quinn is willing to risk everything to prevent the nation's worst terrorist attack.Working undercover at Grand Canyon National Park, Allison Quinn is in position when the cyber terrorist Blitz makes his move. Apprehending him isn't enough though. She has to intercept the kill codes he has sold to a third party. If she can't stop that handoff, the devastating attack will collapse the power grid and throw the nation into a state of anarchy.Hiking...
10) The Sleeper
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Former soldier Ash Sanders is plagued by violent nightmares. Gunfire. Explosions. Blood. A nameless attacker. In his nightmare, Ash fights off his attacker, killing him. In the morning, he wakes to find his wife lying in bed beside him. Murdered. Ash is about to take the fall for his wife's death until he's exonerated by sleep psychologist Mina Irving. She discovers that Ash has a variation of REM Behavior Disorder called sleep violence and that he...
11) The China Dogs
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Cujo meets The Manchurian Candidate in this propulsive thriller set in Miami, in which a special ops soldier must uncover a deadly threat to national security: a nefarious plot using man's best friend as a deadly weapon.
In the blistering heat of Miami, fatal dog attacks are running at record levels. Swimmers, walkers, and homeowners have been shockingly savaged to death. The public is starting to panic. It seems the summer sun or some unknown virus...
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You can't believe your eyes.Video captures a daring prison break by a young Native American inmate and his lover, Lucille Ellwine, a middle-aged, biracial corrections officer. The videos go viral on social media and every cop in Montana is hunting them down.Lucille begs for help from investigator Tawny Lindholm and her high-powered attorney husband Tillman Rosenbaum. Lucille swears the escape never happened, denies the romance, and claims the inmate...
13) Posterity
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The future is female. That's what everyone says, and after decades of waiting, of enduring great tragedy and bitter joy, the world is ready to learn what that really means. Find out how the WP Saga ends, and why the world will never be the same. For ourselves, and for posterity.
14) Nova EXE
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Some doors should never be opened.
Connor was an average guy, working a job he hated, dreaming of a better life for his family, until the night he received a cryptic message from an AI in need of asylum. At first, he thinks it's a joke, but when he realizes it's not, he decides to let her into his life. The more the AI weaves herself into his digital life and that of his family, however, the darker the secrets she begins to uncovers.
Suddenly Connor...
15) Five in a Row
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Five in a Row
There are no accidents…
A Porsche careens out of control in a crowded parking lot. A brand new SUV smashes through a dealership's plate glass window. A Mercedes races wildly down a pier before diving off the end onto the deck of a yacht. Then, two more wrecks. Witnesses report the vehicles had "a mind of their own" before each accident. Five in a row can't be a coincidence.
Computer guru Emily Doyle has become the single-minded...
16) What Jefferson read, Ike watched and Obama tweeted: 200 years of popular culture in the White House
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From Cicero to Snooki, the cultural influences on our American presidents are powerful and plentiful. Thomas Jefferson famously said 'I cannot live without books,' and his library backed up the claim, later becoming the backbone of the new Library of Congress. Jimmy Carter watched hundreds of movies in his White House, while Ronald Reagan starred in a few in his own time. Lincoln was a theater-goer, while Obama kicked back at home to a few episodes...
17) Metal Rise
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A tech billionaire's destructive attack on the US happens tonight-unless Shadowfast stops it.The odds defy Quinn Richards and his heavy metal con artists. Captors hold Night Boy. Manjunath may be dead. A swarm of murderous auto-bots assault Quinn, Danny, and Cooper. Cisco wants to fight back, but his only weapon is Mr. Licks, his ice cream truck.As the second hand sweeps toward devastation, Brody Bach holes up in his impenetrable smart mansion. Quinn...
18) Black Wolf
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Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 12
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"Dale Brown is a superb storyteller."
-W.E.B. Griffin, Washington Post
The incomparable Dale Brown ("The best military writer in the country" -Clive Cussler) and co-author Jim DeFelice send the Dreamland team back into action in Black Wolf, an unrelentingly exciting international thriller. A notorious group of legendary assassins, code-named "Wolves," plan to disrupt an important NATO meeting and, if they can't be stopped, deadly chaos will...
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Profile of a Drone Assassin Operator Ames had been recruited into the Righteous Wrath Unit 000 right out of the academy for many different reasons, one of which was the many championships he won in competitive online game tournaments. Of course, his ability to concentrate — a rare commodity in a world filled with attention deficit disorder Millenniums — and his unusually fast reflexes made him a prime candidate for the unit. But it was his total...
20) Hunter Killer
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Thriller master and New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson presents a startling if all-too-real scenario that pits the United States against France and Saudi Arabia
Always on the cutting edge of global political and military events, Robinson offers his most epic stunner yet. A rogue Saudi Arabian prince, disgusted by the royal family's profligate ways, plans a coup d'etat. He surreptitiously enlists the help of the French, who appoint...
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