'After the pandemic, people hugged, friends and families reconnected, but a few short years later we were back to shooting each other.'
David Miller is an amnesiac war veteran struggling to put the pieces of his life back together and adjust to civilian life in 2049's PortCity.
His life is turned upside down when an old friend from the conflict shows up, warning him that the war isn't over -- and that there's something buried deep inside his mind that the enemy are after.
What follows is a journey of self-discovery that explores subjects involving dissociative identity disorder, grief, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, simulations, and the singularity event.
'A truly, well written, must-read book!' - Reader review
A truly unique, and groundbreaking Sports Fiction, and Dystopian Book for Young Adults on up, suitable for Young Adults (YA) and adult fiction lovers everywhere!
The Death and Resurrection of Baseball: Echoes from a Distant Past, is getting great reviews for its unique Sports Fiction storyline, and what-ifs:
What if a Second Civil War is the endpoint in the current trajectory of America's divisiveness?
What if early warning signs of baseball's popularity continue downward?
What if among the personal and cultural casualties of a Civil War II, baseball was to die as a sport?
The Death and Resurrection of Baseball take those what-if propositions and transports the reader 140 years from now into the futuristic United States of America to the year 2166. A United States that is far from our current recognition.
In the year 2166, a post-Second Civil War United States of America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years.
12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man's land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bloodiest battle of the Second Civil War. While there, he discovers a relic from the distant past, from before the war. It sparks a search for its meaning.
Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion, leading to a stunning discovery in Dyersville, Iowa.
This second discovery has a direct connection with the relic found in McHenry. As events unfold, Joe finds himself at the center of the rediscovery of the sport of baseball, long lost and forgotten by the ravages of time and the lingering aftereffects of the Second Civil War.
Gamification taken in a chilling direction
The elite Cyber Assassin Technology Services (CATS) team is comprised of experts who combat cyber warfare at ground zero. Their primary directives—
• Find root causes of cyber-attacks aimed at businesses and governments.
• Identify the cyber thugs who think they are untraceable.
• Stop digital extortion with advanced cyber security.
• Protect the innocent citizens of the region where they are allocated.
The CATS expertise includes military black ops, covert operations, multi-lingual, and governmental undercover backgrounds. They react real-time to assignments to gather data, follow the leads, and disrupt any success for their targets.
George, Ty, Ernesto, Mercedes, Summit, and Brayson—fan out across the globe to investigate these strikingly similar attacks. Their advice to focus on the long-term success rather than pay ransom demands appears to fall on deaf ears. Is it cheaper to pay the ransom or more convenient?
The trail leads to a pair of rivals who make a game of exporting misery uses their state-owned supercomputers. These gaming monsters believe they can’t be caught or stopped.
Julie and Juan guide their CATS resources to stop the spread of ransomware in every corner of the real and virtual worlds.
The points are mounting for the ultimate prize.
Who will succeed and who will fail?
What would you do if you knew that your next birthday might be your last?
For Prince Edward, he knew he needed to break his curse to live past the age of 17, and a young witch named Abbey may be his only salvation.
Hexed on his fifth birthday by his magic-wielding grandmother, Edward has been forced to rely upon a special tincture to survive. But, with magic now banned throughout the kingdom of Arthura, the supply of his elixir running short, and his 17th birthday looming, Edward must set off for the Venatys mountains to seek the help of the witches and wizards who shelter there in isolation. Finding danger on the road to seeking a cure, Edward is rescued by Abbey, a sarcastic young witch.
Both are wary of trusting the other, but they must learn to work together to try and lift the prince's curse. As the pair are pursued by a mysterious figure, with an agenda of their own, can the prince and the witch overcome their internal conflicts to save Edward's life before time runs out?
In an alternate 1933, a sleuth and his robot partner are caught in the middle of a legal battle that will decide the fate of the world's machine population.
Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavored to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to build himself a quiet life have so far been promising. However, while Manhattan's Lower City is in the midst of a reignited mob war, Elias is faced with finding a man who doesn't want to be found, absolving a machine of a murder charge, and discovering a network of secrets that keeps the world turning, almost literally.
Reuniting with his old Automatic partner, Allen, and reporter-turned-hitman Simone, Elias must search for the truth amid a web of conspiracy and lies. While failure would result in the eradication of all Automatics in America and cripple the megacorporation that hired him to investigate, success could uncover truths no one is ready to face: truths about the city, Allen's past, and which side they are all truly fighting for.
Scott Jericho thought he'd worked his last case. Fresh out of jail, the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected.
Then a series of bizarre murders comes to light - deaths that echo a century-old fairground legend. The police can't connect the victims. But Jericho knows how the legend goes; that more murders are certain to follow.
As Jericho unpicks the deadly mystery, a terrifying question haunts him. As a direct descendant of one of the victims in the legend, is Jericho next on the killer's list?
Come and meet the one of the most notorious families of the drug under world, the Jenkins. Our main characters Carl, Sammie, Neil, and the youngest daughter Marissa, goes down this road of, love, betrayal, and hurt. How their web is weaved with in Miles Clifford’s life. But can they piece together their brokenness before time runs out? Welcome to the Family……
The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.
Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.
Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles to find a reason to carry on living.
But when a boy is found murdered inside the camp, Adam is given the chance to be a detective again.
Ordered to discover the identity of the killer, Adam must employ all his wits to solve the mystery while surviving the perils of Auschwitz.
And he'd better catch the killer soon because the punishment for failure is death.
Readers of murder mysteries and historical fiction will be thrilled by The Auschwitz Detective.
The Auschwitz Detective is a prequel and can be read before the other books in the Adam Lapid series.
Akte 1: Hendrik Jansen, ein Mittdreißiger, prügelt laut singend einen Passanten mit einer Schaufel zu Tode, während eine weitere junge Passantin in Ohnmacht fällt. Hr. Jansen stürzt sich auf die am Boden liegende Frau und fleht um das Leben seiner Oma. Was haben ein seltsamer Fetisch, ein Schachbrett und die mahnenden Worte einer alten Frau mit diesem Fall zutun? Was war der Grund der Eskalation von Hr. Jansen? Wie komplex ist die Psyche eines Menschen, der durch Traumata selbst vom Opfer zum Täter wurde? Kriminalpsychologe Dr. Chistoph Amens: 'Unsere Psyche ist so zerbrechlich, dass ein Kratzer ausreicht um das Konstrukt unserer heilen Welt zum Einsturz zu bringen. *Pew* und der Weg zum Wahnsinn ist frei.'
This book is Part 1 of 4 Book-Series, a fan work dedicated as a tribute to Linkin Park music band life's work to date, of which the author's inspiration had come from. This book includes references to the songs, that should be played in the background while reading it, for enhanced experience.
'The goal being, it should look like Linkin Park were making the soundtrack for the book, and not the other way around.'
Synopsis:
Tomas was born with unusually small frame for a male. Since his childhood, he struggled to become a 'real' man. Exposed to his peers as a 'lamb' to a 'wolves' narrowly avoiding abuse, his solution was to transform himself physically.
'Tomas learnt that no matter how much progress he would do, he wouldn’t get any support from anyone, because of how far away his end goal was in their eyes. They couldn’t see that far, couldn’t believe this will continue for so long to see it through. And he couldn’t wait to prove them wrong!'
Along the way to achieve this goal he stumbled into martial arts, becoming obsessed with the idea of being proficient in self-defence. It wasn't easy. Tomas decided to relocate leaving his old life and everyone he knew including his loved ones behind, spending years of practicing various martial arts in the heart of Hong-Kong, China.
His talent became quickly apparent and Tomas eventually became the king of illegal fights, but it was not too long before he crossed the path of the wrong people. How is it going to end?
Note: This book doesn't contain any of the songs referenced in itself, and its purely optional for the reader to gain access to those songs at his own expense. As use of those songs is experimental, it doesn't guarantee improved experience compared to 'just' reading of this book.
Sofie kehrt nach langer Zeit in ihren Heimatort zurück, um ihre frühere Freundin Maria zu besuchen. Per Zufall stoßen die beiden auf ein seit zwei Jahrzehnten in der Erde vergrabenes Skelett. Weil die Polizei sich merkwürdig zurückhält, ermitteln die zwei Freundinnen auf eigene Faust. Eine Spur führt sie zu einer Wahrsagerin. Doch dann bekommt der Fall plötzlich eine ganz unerwartete Wendung. Ein Leichenfund, viele Rätsel, ein Pfarrer auf Abwegen - und Tote schweigen nicht.
Could you condemn one child to save another?
In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk.
Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister secret...
But the forest is hiding its own threats and as a catastrophic storm closes in, Lina realises that if she is to save her family, she must become a monster...
Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best Debut, ´This Is Our Undoing´ is perfect for fans of Yun Ko-Eun ´The Disaster Tourist´.
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Lorraine is an award-winning writer and biologist. Having spent years working in remote corners of the world, she now lives by the sea in Scotland and writes stories full of the wilderness and folklore, exploring themes of family, belonging, and the legacy of trauma.
