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Society of the Mind
by Eric L. HarryIn the year 2003, psychologist Laura Aldridge is offered a million dollars for one week's consulting, by the richest man on Earth. When she lands on the Gray Corporation's South Pacific Island she finds a supertech domain, at the heart of which lies a secret that will affect the future of humanity.
Sock: A Novel
by Penn JilletteNew York Times–Bestselling Author: From the famed comedian and magician, a very unusual crime novel filled with “smart-alecky, philosophical wit” (Booklist, starred review).Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs, occasionally stops to tell a side story, and references a treasure trove of 1970s and 1980s pop culture—in a surprising, intense, fascinating fiction debut.“Unlike anything I’ve ever read . . . seriously good writing.” —Kaye Gibbons, award-winning author of Ellen Foster“Possibly the best original fiction I’ve read since A Confederacy of Dunces.” —Kinky Friedman, author of Prisoner of Vandam Street
Sockpuppet: The Martingale Cycle
by Matthew BlakstadYou shared your life online. Now how will you get it back?There's no such person as sic_girl. She's just a piece of code, a fake internet personality turned internet celebrity that Dani Farr designed to win a bet.But she's just started spilling state secrets.Dani can't imagine why anyone would hack a bit of code she created as a joke... but sic_girl has Dani in her sights, and now she risks losing everyone and everything she cares about.Government minister Bethany Lehrer has put her job on the line to launch Digital Citizen, a national online ID scheme. sic_girl seems determined to bring that down. And if Dani and Bethany don't figure out who - or what - is behind sic_girl, it won't just be their lives and privacy at stake. Because the more secrets sic_girl spills, the clearer it becomes:Nothing is private.No one is safe.
Sockpuppet: The Martingale Cycle (The Martingale Cycle #1)
by Matthew BlakstadYou shared your life online. Now how will you get it back?There's no such person as sic_girl. She's just a piece of code, a fake internet personality turned internet celebrity that Dani Farr designed to win a bet.But she's just started spilling state secrets.Dani can't imagine why anyone would hack a bit of code she created as a joke... but sic_girl has Dani in her sights, and now she risks losing everyone and everything she cares about.Government minister Bethany Lehrer has put her job on the line to launch Digital Citizen, a national online ID scheme. sic_girl seems determined to bring that down. And if Dani and Bethany don't figure out who - or what - is behind sic_girl, it won't just be their lives and privacy at stake. Because the more secrets sic_girl spills, the clearer it becomes:Nothing is private.No one is safe.
Soda Pop Soldier
by Nick ColeWhen the virtual world gets real . . .Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat-sport arena where megacorporations field entire armies in the battle for dominance over real-world global-advertising space. Within the immense virtual battlefield, players and bots are high-tech grunts, using dropships and state-of-the-art assault rifles to attack the enemy.But when times are tough, there's always the Black, an illegal open-source tournament where the sick and twisted desires of the future are given free reign. And what begins as PerfectQuestion's onetime effort to make some cash quickly turns dangerous.All too soon, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a madman intent on hacking the global economy for himself and fights to stay alive--in WarWorld, in the Black, and in the real world.
Sodom & Gomorrah on a Saturday Night
by Lisa D. Kastner Christa MillerWhen all of society is privatized, profitable crimes become legalized while empathy is banned. How far will people go to connect? Could their defiance lead to revolution? These are the underlying questions within this novella collection.
Sofie Metropolis (Sofie Metropolis Book #1)
by Tori CarringtonOn her wedding day, right before the ceremony, right there in the Greek Orthodox church, Sofie Metropolis discovered her groom and her maid of honor in each other's arms. Sofie took this as a sign. Now, she is no longer waiting tables at her father's or her grandfather's dueling Greek restaurants in Astoria, Queens. She kept the engagement ring (the garbage disposal choked on it( and all the wedding presents, including the small apartment building that was a gift from her parents. It's not easy to collect rent from an eccentric group of tenants that includes a trio of lackadaisical business-school students and a nice little old Jewish lady who plies Sofie with ethnic delicacies, but at least Sofie has a roof over her head. Sofie also has a new career, thanks to Uncle Spyros's detective agency. Okay, so far, the cases haven't been all that exciting-mostly, Sofie's been tracking down lost pets and cheating spouses-but even Sam Spade had to start somewhere. Then ... Sofie's mother's best friend, Mrs. Kapoor, who seems to dose everything-even tea-with curry, reports that her dog has been stolen. Sofie must drop everything to search for the meanest mutt on the face of the Earth.... The agency's usually unflappable office manager comes to Sofie in terror because the neighborhood "vampire" has disappeared, replaced by his even creepier nephew.... Tailing a wayward wife, Sofie is caught in a shoot-out and is rescued by Australian man-of-mystery Jake Porter, who might be a bounty hunter and who definitely gets Sofie's engine started.... And what is Jake Porter doing in the middle of Sofie's adultery case anyway, and why is the cheating wife now on the run?
Sofrito
by Phillippe Diederich"In this entertaining debut novel, Frank Delgado tries to save his failing restaurant by returning to Cuba, his dead father's homeland, to get ahold of a top-secret chicken recipe. But there is more than delicious chicken at stake here. Food is the road home--geographically, emotionally, metaphorically. Peppered with cooking advice from chefs, ordinary folks, and celebrities including Fidel Castro himself (an advocate of pork), Phillipe Diederich's Sofrito is a love letter to the deepest recesses of nostalgia's heart."--Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban and King of CubaFrank Delgado is no thief. He co-owns a failing Cuban restaurant in Manhattan's Upper East Side. The restaurant, like Frank, is rudderless. Lost. He decides he'll save the restaurant by traveling to Cuba to steal the legendary chicken recipe from the famed El Ajillo restaurant in Havana. The recipe is a state secret, so prized that no cook knows the whole recipe. But Frank's rationale is ironclad--Fidel stole the secret from his family, so he will steal it back. He will triumphantly bring that recipe back to Manhattan and turn his fortunes around.Frank has no interest in Cuba. His parents fled after the Revolution. His dead father spent his life erasing all traces of Cuba from his heart with barbeques, television, lawn mowing and alcohol. So Frank is not prepared for the real Cuba. Sure, he gets beat up and almost killed, the secret service threatens him, but in the midst of the chaos, he falls in love with a prostitute and the city, and he unwraps the heroic story of his parents' life. Cuba begins to bind Frank together, the way a good sofrito binds the flavors of a Cuban dish.Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian American writer and photojournalist raised in Mexico City and Miami, Florida. The dictator Papa Doc kicked his parents out of Haiti in the 1960s. Phillippe grew up listening to stories of nostalgia, revolution, and exile. His friends were the sons and daughters of parents who had fled oppressive regimes throughout Latin America.
Soft Focus
by Jayne Ann KrentzElizabeth Cabot is all business. She knows how to maximize her investments and cut her losses--in both her career and her personal life. <P><P> So when she discovers that Jack Fairfax has deceived her, she's determined to end their relationship. Putting a stop to their budding romance is easy. But breaking up their business deal will be more difficult. Despite all her efforts, she has no luck disentangling herself from Jack's client company, Excalibur. But the situation becomes even more strained when a new obstacle emerges: a lethal act of sabotage that could put both of them out of business for good. <P> Elizabeth is no fool. If she can help Jack save Excalibur, she'll recoup her substantial investment plus millions in profit. Putting her emotions aside, she insists on helping him search for the scientist who's disappeared with a valuable new crystal that could revolutionize the high-tech industry. She'll go in, solve the problem--and get out. <P> The trail leads Elizabeth and Jack to a fringe film festival, but their goal is as elusive as the shadowy black-and-white images from classic noir films. Life starts to imitate art, and double-dealing seems to be the name of the game. For these business adversaries turned reluctant partners, keeping an eye on each other--and the lid on a sizzling attraction--seems the only insurance against further treachery. But with millions at stake, trust can turn to betrayal in the blink of an eye.
Soft Money (A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery)
by Gary Phillips Ken WishniaOfficer Filomena Buscarela has traded in her uniform for the many joys and trials of being a single parent, but her passion for justice burns as hot as ever in this second installment of the critically acclaimed mystery series set in 1980s New York City. When the owner of Filomena's neighborhood bodega is murdered and falls into the overcrowded category of just another "ethnic" crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged, she doesn't need much prodding from the dead man's grieving sister to step in. Secretly partnered with a rookie cop, she hits the Washington Heights streets to smoke out the trigger-happy punks who callously ended an innocent life. In a town big enough to hold every kind of criminal, crackpot, liar, and thief, from ruthless gangsters to corporate executives drunk on greed and power, Filomena tracks a killer through the city's danger zones. This is dark, humorous storytelling that also offers a recap of the social and economic horrors wrought by the Reagan era.
Soft Target
by Mia KayWounded FBI agent Gray Harper will honor his dead partner by returning to work-as soon as the Bureau shrink clears him for duty. In the meantime, a long vacation in his best friend's hometown sounds like the perfect distraction. But Nate Mathis has another plan. His twin sister, Maggie, has a stalker, and Gray's the only one Nate trusts to catch the bastard.Admitting she's scared would bring the cavalry, and Maggie Mathis has always taken care of herself. She certainly doesn't need a bodyguard. As far as she knows, Gray's in town to work as the Mathis family's new business manager. That she's always found her brother's friend handsome is something she'll keep to herself.Gray's real job would be a lot easier if he didn't have to keep his intentions from Maggie. It would also be easier if he didn't want to sleep with her. He certainly shouldn't have kissed her good-night. There never should have been a second date.All too soon, the line between responsibility and pleasure blurs. Gray hates to think of Maggie in danger. He hates that he thinks about Maggie too much, and of the day he won't be there to protect her. Secrets aren't easy to keep from those you love, but Gray needs to guard several with his life...before he risks losing Maggie forever.
Soft Target (Executioner #323)
by Don Pendleton Jerry Van CookNew intelligence in the form of confiscated terrorist-training films indicates a highly orchestrated chain of catastrophic violence is about to spread like wildfire across the United States. Assassinations of government officials, the mass murder of innocents at shopping malls and churches, and suicide bombings will simply lay the groundwork for the big event to come. Operating on razor-sharp instincts, Mack Bolan begins at the beginning- tracking targeted victims and taking out the enemy before havoc ensues, picking up bits of the puzzle and piecing together the grim picture. A mass hostage-taking at a large university demands every bit of steel the Executioner's got, but even the worst that unfolds is a cakewalk compared to a relentless enemy's next calculated act of devastation.
Soft Target (Ray Cruz #2)
by Stephen HunterBlack Friday America's largest shopping mall Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall - a giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Stephen Hunter's hyper-drive, eighth-gear new thriller, "Soft Target, "chronicles the day when the unthinkable happens: twelve gunmen open fire in the mall corridors, driving the pack before them. Those on the upper floors take cover or get out any way they can; but within a few minutes the gunmen have herded more than a thousand hostages into the amusement park. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter's last bestseller, "Dead Zero," is in the mall with his fiancee and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killing - but among the trapped thousands, he's the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed "Brigade Mumbai." Now all he needs is a gun. FBI Sniper Dave McElroy has a gun. But positioned on the roof of the vast building, looking down through one of its thickly paned Great Lakes-shaped skylights, and without explosives or fuses - or the go-ahead from his superiors - he is effectively cut off from his targets and forced into the role of witness to the horror unfolding below. Set during the four hours of the terrifying event, the story follows both hostages and gunmen, detailing the complex strategic police response, the full-press media saturation coverage, even the politics of SWAT as both the Minnesota State Police and the FBI struggle to control, confront, and ultimately defuse the crisis. Having learned the lessons of Columbine, the feds believe that immediate action is the only solution. But Douglas Obobo, the charismatic and ambitious commandant of the state police, orders cooperation, tolerance, communication, and empathy for the gunmen. He feels that with his superior negotiating skills, he can make contact with the shooters and gently nudge them into surrender. But what if their goal all along has been unparalleled massacre--and they're only waiting for prime time? With unrelenting suspense and vivid scenes of violence and chaos in the center of a terror-crazed afternoon in Middle America, thriller master Stephen Hunter takes us into the belly of the softest of soft targets.
Soft Target: A Thriller (Ray Cruz Ser. #1)
by Stephen HunterAnother action-packed thriller from Stephen Hunter, this time starring Ray Cruz, the son of ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, who was introduced in Hunter's previous bestseller, Dead Zero.Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall--a giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, 9,988 have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter's last bestseller, Dead Zero, is in the mall with his fiancée and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killing--but among the trapped thousands, he's the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed "Brigade Mumbai." Now all he needs is a gun.
Soft Target: The 2nd Spider Shepherd Thriller (The Spider Shepherd Thrillers #2)
by Stephen LeatherThe second hard-hitting action thriller in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun.When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far.Shepherd is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and to ultimately betray them.Facing men with guns is nothing new for the former SAS trooper, but it's the first time he's had to investigate his own. And the job couldn't have come at a worse time for him.As Shepherd finds himself in the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie.(P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Soft Targets (A Jonathan Grave Thriller)
by John GilstrapFour children's lives hang in the balance. A vicious criminal is on the loose. With law enforcement at a dead end, there's only one man who can recover the hostages--Jonathan Grave. FBI Special Agent Irene Rivers is horrified to learn that because of mistakes made by agents under her command, a murderer and child molester will walk free. When Irene's own daughters become the monster's next targets, she reaches out in desperation to an elite Special Forces operator. His name is Jonathan Grave. For Grave, results matter more than procedures. Together, they discover a new kind of justice--and a new breed of evil. . .
Soft Touch
by John D. MacdonaldSoft Touch, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. Jerry Jamison wants out. Out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job, the empty suburban rat race. Out of the whole infuriating merry-go-round of boredom and frustration his life has become. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful business. That was before his wife turned into a lush. Before the business started to go to pieces. And before the lazy afternoon when Vince Biskay, an old army buddy, rings his doorbell and makes an intriguing proposition that promises to bring the excitement back into Jerry's life--but leaves only death and destruction in its wake. Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz Praise for John D. MacDonald "The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller."--Stephen King "My favorite novelist of all time."--Dean Koontz "To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."--Kurt Vonnegut "A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best."--Mary Higgins Clark
Soft Touch
by John D. MacdonaldJerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful business - that was before his wife turned into a lush. Before the business started to go to pieces. And before the lazy afternoon when Vince Biskay, an old army buddy, rings his doorbell and makes an intriguing proposition. Vince promises to bring excitement into Jerry's life - and money - but this is a plan that leaves only death and destruction in its wake.
Soft Touch (Murder Room #507)
by John D. MacDonaldJerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful business - that was before his wife turned into a lush. Before the business started to go to pieces. And before the lazy afternoon when Vince Biskay, an old army buddy, rings his doorbell and makes an intriguing proposition. Vince promises to bring excitement into Jerry's life - and money - but this is a plan that leaves only death and destruction in its wake.
Soft! A Novel
by Rupert ThomsonFormer bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past in his native Plymouth for an uncertain new existence as a barber in London's colorful East End. Waif-like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress at a fashionable Soho restaurant, a devoted daughter to her estranged, caravan-dwelling father, and a long-distance girlfriend to an unpredictable American lawyer. And ambitious soft drink branch manager Jimmy Lyle is eager to please his new American boss with a revolutionary marketing strategy for Soft!, one that promises to make the new orange-colored beverage a soda sensation for the twenty-first century. It is under that effervescent orange glow that these three disparate souls intersect, as each learns "there is nothing soft about the soft drink industry." When unsuspecting "Soft! ambassador" Glade begins to unravel from her subconscious obsession with a product she's never tried, Jimmy's top-secret campaign threatens to spill into the daily papers, and Barker once again finds himself employed as a thug-for-hire. At turns harrowing and darkly humorous, Soft! is a magnificently surreal story, one that New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani calls "Rupert Thomson's most powerful novel yet."From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sofía Valdéz y el voto perdido
by Andrea BeatyRosa Pionera, Ada Magnífica, Pedro Perfecto y Sofía Valdez son... ¡los Preguntones! Sofía Valdez siempre quiere mejorar las cosas en su comunidad, ya sea haciendo campaña para construir un nuevo parque o enseñando a sus compañeros de clase sobre cómo funciona el gobierno. ¡Y a la señorita Eva Delgado le vendrá muy bien la ayuda de Sofía, porque es momento de que el segundo grado elija una mascota para la clase! El grupo reduce la elección a dos candidatos, el pájaro y la tortuga, y organiza una campaña. Por fin se celebran las elecciones. Sin embargo, cuando se cuentan los votos, hay un empate# ¡Falta un voto! ¿Qué pasó con el voto perdido? ¿Y qué hará el grupo para deshacer el empate? ¡Depende de Sofía y los Preguntones restaurar la democracia y salvar las elecciones!
Sofía en el mar
by Anna RoigMovida por el impulso de cambiar la vida que lleva, Sofia deja a su familia y su pueblo en España para empezar de nuevo en Lucerna, Suiza. Ahí encontrará un nuevo pasatiempo: escribir, donde plasmará su perspectiva del amor, incluyéndose a sí misma en las historias que cuenta. Conforme Sofia da forma a su relato, a más de mil kilómetros de distancia, Aleksy, un apuesto pero introvertido chico polaco, sobrevive a un trágico accidente de tren, y comienza a tener visiones sobre su futuro, soñando con la mejor experiencia que podría tener. El camino hacia su recuperación es largo, doloroso y está nublado por una sensación de pérdida; por lo que su única alegría la encuentra en sus visiones. Aún sin comprenderlas, decide aferrarse a ellas en un último intento por volver a ser la persona feliz que antes fue. Lo que Aleksy desconoce es que sus visiones coinciden con lo que Sofia ha estado escribiendo en su diario. Los caminos de Aleksy y Sofia están secretamente entrelazados: hay algo que los conecta aún sin conocerse y los motiva a seguir adelante. Esta emotiva historia demuestra que la vida puede sorprendernos de mil maneras, pero el amor siempre estará ahí para mostrarnos el verdadero camino.
Sogni Di Una Studentessa
by J. J. Dibenedetto Tatiana CrescenzioE se poteste aver accesso ai sogni altrui? "Questo è uno di quei libri che vi conquisteranno e cattureranno sin dalla prima pagina. Non lo metterete giù fin quando non avrete finito di leggerlo". ~JadedAngel39 Che cosa fareste se aveste la possibilità di guardare nei sogni altrui? E se poteste guardare nelle loro più intime fantasie e scoprire i loro più profondi e oscuri segreti... a loro insaputa? E se loro potessero uccidervi? Sara Barnes pensava che tutto ciò di cui dovesse preoccuparsi comprendesse gli esami, i regali di Natale e decidere se farsi piacere la matricola carina dello studentato accanto che ha una cotta per lei. Ma poi inizia a vedere dei sogni che non sono i suoi e impara più di quanto avrebbe mai voluto sapere riguardo i suoi amici, i suoi compagni di corso... e anche riguardo un uomo misterioso e terribile i cui sogni potrebbero ucciderla. "Sogni di una studentessa" è il primo elettrizzante volume della Serie dei Sogni.
Sogni di una dottoressa
by J. J. Dibenedetto Tatiana CrescenzioTra l'adattamento alla vita da sposa novella e il tentativo di uscire indenne dal primo mese di facoltà di medicina, Sara Alderson ha molto a cui pensare. E di certo non ha bisogno di tornare a fare un giro tra i sogni altrui. Sfortunatamente per lei, sta accadendo comunque. Ogni notte vede una persona e un sogno diversi. Ma c'è un filo che unisce ogni sognatore: odiano tutti il Dott. Morris, il meno apprezzato tra i docenti della facoltà, e tutti sognano di vederlo morto, o renderlo tale. Ancora una volta, Sara riveste i panni di testimone involontaria di un omicidio prima che esso si verifichi. Ma questa volta, la rosa dei sospetti è ben più ampia, e non è di alcun aiuto il fatto che lei odi il Dott. Morris tanto quanto i suoi presunti assassini. Sogni di una dottoressa è il secondo volume della serie dei sogni.
Soho Killers: A gritty and fast-paced British detective crime thriller (The DCI Banham Series Book 2) (The DCI Banham Series #2)
by Linda ReganThe second in the hard-hitting DCI Banham series by acclaimed actress Linda Regan.When a group of young women working in London’s sex trade become involved in a murder investigation, they come up with a story which results in the wrong person being convicted.Now, twenty years later, that person is out of jail – and somebody has started killing the women involved in the case. With the threat of blackmail hanging over them, the remaining women arrange a meeting – but it’s anyone’s guess if they will all make it there alive…Stymied by the complex relationships between the people in the case, DCI Banham is perplexed – and his personal life isn’t offering any respite, for he’s rapidly falling for his deputy, Sergeant Grainger – a woman who does not want to mix her private and professional lives.