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Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

The second book in an action-packed science fiction trilogy set on a far future world where the fate of nations is determined by battle-hardened warriors who are trained to compete in brutal single combat. In a world where single combat determines the fate of nations, the Grievar fight in the...

As Human civilization approaches interstellar and even interdimensional travel, a lone being, Sol, arrives on our planet. Hailing from an advanced society dedicated to ushering our world into a future of peace. After stepping through the one-way portal, Sol discovers an unexpected side effect that this universe has on his body—power befitting those we mere humans call superheroes.

It’s more than just a career - it’s a sacred calling…but it comes with a very short life expectancy. Lord Kreon, Warden of the First Circle, has a problem: he’s been forced to kill another apprentice, and he’s rapidly running out of candidates. In fact, there is precisely one left….

Casey Stevens awakens within a crashed alien vessel 35 years after she was abducted. Navigating inverted tunnels, she’s plagued by ghostly apparitions from her past and stalked by a ravenous, mutated experiment gone horribly wrong. When Casey discovers her own body is changing - becoming blotched with grey, scaly patches - she fears she may face the same fate as the once-human creature that now hunts her.

In a neon-lit near future, the elite is gifted with the technology to make Portraits - perfect copies, designed to bear the weight of their fame. Lulabelle Rock, a star actress, exists again as her thirteenth Portrait. But unlike her predecessors, she's an assassin, meant to erase every version of Lulabelle's past self. As she winds through the maze of Bubble City, her task becomes tangled with a developing conscience and blurred identities. And when she fall's in love with one of her targets, she's faced with a profound dilemma; when you don’t want to kill yourself, what’s the alternative?

Ein Biest geht um in Kommissar Hausmanns beschaulichem Kleinstadtrevier. Ein Mann wird brutal ermordet und ausgeweidet. Das Mysteriöse an der Tat: Dem Opfer fehlt jegliches Körperfett. Hausmann steht vor einem Rätsel. Zugleich empfängt der Hobby-Alienjäger Henry mysteriöse Signale, die von Außerirdischen zu stammen scheinen. Bald gibt es weitere Tote. Spuren führen zu einem hochgeheimen Labor.

Det är en stekhet sommar i Stockholm. Alice Winter kommer hem efter några månader utomlands och märker att något har förändrats. Ett manshat har börjat breda ut sig i samhället och många kvinnor frågar sig vad man egentligen ska ha män till över huvud taget. Bakom manshatet döljer sig en feministisk sekt som vill göra män till maktlösa spermadonatorer. De styr opinionen genom att sprida elaka rykten och de kampanjar för en ny medicin som kommer att göra att allt färre pojkar föds - Baby X.

Starnet est détruit... Mais est-ce la fin de tous les déboires de Nathan et Mickael... Ils vont s’apercevoir très vite que non... Une revenante vient leur annoncer qu’il va falloir lui faire confiance, que toute leur vie n’est que mensonges et faux-semblants...

In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery. In the present day, a copyist painter receives a commission from a wealthy Chinese businessman to duplicate a Paolo Uccello painting. Together, the painter and his teenage daughter visit China, and in doing so they begin their escape from a tragic family past.

Un científico realiza un descubrimiento rompedor: en la secuencia del genoma humano, en una parte que se consideraba inútil, reside un mensaje cifrado que podría cambiar el rumbo del destino de toda la humanidad. Sin embargo, hay gente dispuesta a lo que sea para evitar que dicho mensaje se conozca... incluso hasta de matar. Un nuevo y adictivo thriller tecnológico del maestro del misterio, Carter Damon.

En esta obra, digna de las mejores fantasías de Christopher Nolan, tres realidades paralelas chocan entre sí con desastrosos resultados para la humanidad: el descubrimiento en 2015 de una nao española hundida hace siglos en el Atlántico Norte; el ataque de una flota alienígena a la Quinta Flota Aeroespacial en 2077, y un misterioso robo en un museo de Historia Natural norteamericano en 2023. Hechos separados, mundos imposibles, y sin embargo un único y muy tangible peligro: la destrucción de la humanidad en ciernes, que solo un intrépido agente del FBI podrá detener.

In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend - a hungover Toni Munroe - steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating. In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making babies.