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1) Cruel intent
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Hopelessly overweight Jemima Jones finds she can invent her perfect self when she begins an internet romance. She becomes JJ, the slim, perfect glamour girl of her dreams. But when her admirer wants to meet face-to-face, suddenly Jemima must overcome her food addiction and turn her fantasy appearance into a reality.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew. They have no idea what the Dark Net really contains.
Author
Series
Carrigan and Miller novels volume 3
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Detectives Carrigan and Miller are taken from a backpackers' hostel in west London, to the world of online intimidation, hacking and control, when a drugged and distressed young woman arrives at their station claiming her friend has been abducted.
7) Sympathy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, a Japanese writer living in New York, whose life story has strange parallels to her own and who she believesis her "Internet twin." What seems to Mizuko like a chance encounter with Alice is anything but--after all, in the age of connectivity, nothing is coincidence.Their subsequent relationship is doomed from the outset, exposing a tangle of lies and sexual...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Scandal-plagued hacker journalist John Hawke is hot on the trail of the explosive story that might save his career. James Weller, the former CEO of the giant technology company, Eclipse, has founded a new start-up, and he's agreed to let Hawke do a profile on him. Hawke knows something very big is in the works at Eclipse -- and he wants to use the profile as a foot in the door to find out more. After he arrives in Weller's office in New York City,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three friends, Aurora, a scientist and researcher, Antero, an avant-garde artist turned publicist, and Emiliano, a journalist, once worked together on a digital fanzine that became worshiped all over Brazil. Now, nearly two decades later, the death of the fourth member of the group reconnects them. The novel explores lives trapped between unfulfilled promises and apocalyptic yearnings, capturing the generation that grew up in the midst of the beginning...
Author
Series
Wyman Ford novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science advisor to track down...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En medio de una inesperada ola de calor y en un Porto Alegre paralizado por una huelga de transportes, tres amigos vuelven a encontrarse despues de casi dos decadas. A finales de los noventa crearon un fanzine digital que se hizo famoso en todo Brasil. En su momento compartieron el sentimiento immortal de la juventud y muchas promesas incumplidas. Hoy solo les une la tristeza por la muerte de Duque, a quien han disparado de madrugada mientras corria...
12) Kaddish.com
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father"--
"The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is an atheist...
13) Happy for you
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her reserved Japanese father is energized by a new relationship-his...
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