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AI has become the new religion. Are we going to follow it? Do we even have a choice? Or have the tech evangelists captured our future? Join Christopher Wylie and Coda Story’s Isobel Cockerell as they journey from exclusive crypto parties in Dubai, to the slums of Kenya where thousands of hidden workers are training AI models, to the hacker palaces of San Francisco where tech’s true believers talk about merging computers with our brains.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

1975. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter möchte die 17-jährige Anna Cairns eigentlich nur eins: ihrem verschlafenen Dorf in den Highlands entfliehen, um an der London Academy for Advanced Sciences zu studieren. Doch als Dunwood erstmals seit einem brutalen Übergriff wieder das Beltane-Fest feiert, kommt es zu einem mysteriösen Todesfall. Eine junge Frau, die im Dorf als Hexe galt, wird erhängt aufgefunden. Die Polizei legt den Fall als Suizid zu den Akten, doch Anna lässt er keine Ruhe. Geht ein Mörder um in Dunwood? Gemeinsam mit ihren Freundinnen begibt sich Anna auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit.

Spirit Ball is a spell-binding tale of Native American mysticism blended with the terror of Paula Riddton as she faces the evil spirit of a long-dead shaman. This first novel by Rodney M. Wylie is all but impossible to pause!

Jenna Sutton is nothing like Buffy—the iconic vampire slayer of TV fame. She’s the antithesis of a cheerleader. She’s not peppy. And she sucks at gymnastics. She has nothing in common with the fictional Buffy, other than being blonde and in high school. Oh, and occasionally she kills vampires for a living, as well as other things that go bump in the night.

Julie Wylie couldn’t imagine life without her mother, Patty. Then, Patty received a terminal diagnosis. Faced with this reality, Julie set out on an intentional journey to commemorate the final days of their endearing relationship. Through Julie’s unique, yet universal experiences, you’ll discover creative and loving ways to cherish the last phase of life, and transform it into a lasting legacy it.

I’ve read a ton of books and travel guides about van life, but I missed that personal touch. Firsthand experiences always resonate with me more; that’s why I wanted to do something different with this book. Packed full of stories and tips from my own experiences, this book will become your North Star on your Spanish road trip adventure. Learn about the Spanish culture, get some boots-on-the-ground advice about van life in Spain, and pick up handy Spanish expressions to help along the way.

In the world’s upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: 14 people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer.

Brilliant scientist discovers a chemical formula to render matter invisible and utilizes his secret in an attempt to rule the world in this early SF classic.

This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important - and most shocking - books ever written. Tomorrow! is a story of average, nice Americans living in the neighboring cities of Green Prairie and River City in Middle America.

On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in very different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically; social stability and peace in the other are offset by famine and a widespread breakdown in machinery and science.

A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed Earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.

Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six feet two inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. His hair is bronze, his eyes turquoise, his skin mahogany - a magnificent man. When Henry finally returns to civilization, he finds that his father’s business has grown into a news empire. Though he is the owner of this huge conglomerate, a great conversationalist, well versed in etiquette, and extraordinarily nice, he has never seen a woman.

In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip Wylie trains his sights on the ultimate catastrophe - the destruction of the world through human beings’ unheeding and willful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and finally of the human race itself. The End of the Dream describes a horrific future when toxic chemicals, mutated creatures, and noxious gases all contribute to the eventual death of the human race and of the Earth itself....

It's the 1950s. After a nuclear blast in the mid-Pacific, a Thoreau-reading American Air Force General makes an unexpected and troubling discovery: In a flowery field on a tiny island in the middle of a vast ocean, is an angel — its beautiful face frozen in a death mask and its huge wings wrapped around an inert body. As the general ponders this mystery, the Soviets discover their own angel after a similar nuclear test in Siberia. Are these twin phenomena a ploy in the ongoing hostilities between two international powers? Or has divine intervention pointed the way toward a new political era?

Sixteen-year-old Dani is convinced she has nine lives. As a child she twice walked away from situations where she should have died. But Dani’s twin, Jena, isn’t so lucky. She has cancer and might not even be able to keep her one life. Dani’s father is in denial. Her mother is trying to hold it together and prove everything’s normal. And Jena is wasting away. To cope, Dani sets out to rid herself of all her extra lives.

After Worlds Collide picks up the story of its predecessor When Worlds Collide. This sequel tells the story of the survivors' progress on the new world Bronson Beta after the destruction of planet Earth by a rogue planet.