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Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language...
62) Dead end
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A scientist's miraculous discovery pits him against a multinational drug company in a fight for his life Richard Parnell is one of the leading minds in gene therapy research, and he expects the job at Dubette, Inc., to be his first step to a Nobel Prize. But when he arrives at the American pharmaceutical giant, he finds himself shut out of the main avenues of research, isolated from the cutting edge in a way he has never been before. To force his...
63) Hard rules
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family's business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes...
64) Fallen dragon
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
630 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local...
65) Infomocracy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
66) Judas unchained
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1008 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The factions in the embattled Commonwealth must come together to battle not only the predatory alien species, the Prime, but also the Starflyer, a mysterious and undetectable alien with irresistible mind-control abilities.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these events and to hold the key to the future. Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter is experiencing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
69) The key to fury
Author
Series
Key volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What price would you pay for freedom? Return to the acclaimed dystopian world of the Key by New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast, as two young rebels fight to determine their own worth and change the world along with themselves. Safety comes with a price. The Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics for the last fifty years. But that's not all they've done. After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
72) Poison pill
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After years of struggle, Emma Conway is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high. But her dream life becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens P&B with a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cut-throat, but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their 16-year-old son.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An Army veteran and intelligence agent goes undercover as a janitor at a federal courthouse to pursue his own brand of justice in a thriller that's part John Grisham, part Robert Crais. As a young man, Paul McGrath rebelled against his pacifist father by becoming a standout Army recruit and the star of his military intelligence unit. But lingering regrets about their relationship make him return home, only to find his father dead, seemingly murdered....
77) La apelación
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed. Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sam and his friends find themselves on the run after exposing their corrupt government using a highly-effective lie-detector they invented.