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"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about...
4) Trojan horse
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Jeff Aiken novels volume 2
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Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press
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[2012]
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English
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When a new form of the CIA's computer virus is countered by a Trojan horse developed in the East, cybersecurity analysts Jeff Aiken and Daryl Haugen are caught in the middle of a political uprising that threatens their lives.
5) Amnesia
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Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful,...
6) Anna
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Canongate
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Summer has ended, but the heat will not let up. Ash has covered everything. Weeds and wheat grow around the cars abandoned in the road. Anna and Astor live in the house behind the fence, surviving in a world stripped of adults. The rooms are piled high with rubbish. Their mother's skeleton lies perfect on the bed. And every few days, Anna must head out beyond the fence for provisions and medicine. Each time she goes, she may never come back. A huge...
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2020.
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"In this propulsive medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf...
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Forge
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Susan Garnett, a senior analyst at the FBI's high-tech crime unit, travels to the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula with anthropologist Cameron Slater, in search of a computer virus that appears to be set to trigger a shutdown of networks around the globe at midnight on January 1, 2000.
Twenty days before the new millennium, a virus disables the world's computers for 20 seconds. The next day it is for 19 seconds. Obviously, a countdown, but to what?...
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Extinction Cycle volume 2
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Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions. Her weapon was supposed to be the endgame, but it turned a small percentage of those infected with the Hemorrhage Virus into something even worse. Survivors call them Variants. Irreversible epigenetic changes have transformed them into predators unlike any the human race has ever seen. And they are evolving. With the doomsday clock ticking, the fractured...
10) Fort Freak
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Wild cards volume 21
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Tor
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2011.
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English
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Follows the beats and adventures with the sergeants, detectives, and patrol officers of Jokertown's Fifth Precinct, "Fort Freak," where the person seated behind every other desk is not quite human.
11) Fever: a novel
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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2017.
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English
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"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm,...
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