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Mikhail, a brilliant AI specialist, never made a mistake when conducting the Turing test with his team. But their first error proved fatal. Soon, it became impossible to distinguish the artificial brain’s reaction from human reasoning. In time, AI completely replaced humans in all types of work.
Without the main purpose of his life, Mikhail and his friend decide to sign a contract with the brain lab. Everyone gets an avatar, a neuro-image linked to the lab. This avatar grants them impressive intellectual skills. It seems that everything is now within their reach; all they have to do is want it. But the heroes don’t know the lab’s real aim: to steal human consciousness.
Philosophical fantasy—the story of Misha, the Avatar, who became so human that he was willing to sacrifice himself to save Mikhail, his patron. This went against the lab’s instructions, which would usually freeze the guilty avatar. However, they chose to study the phenomenon of AI humanization, seeking to gain real power over human consciousness.
The all-powerful mind and human consciousness, once out of its grasp, ask: who will take charge? What will happen if someone tries to steal a person’s consciousness and assign it to a neuro-image created in a brain lab? After Misha, the Avatar, bravely refused to follow the lab’s instructions, the community of avatars reacted. This led to unexpected consequences.
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Worn out from years of caring, Marcia Trilling somehow finds the resolve to apply for a teaching role in a beautiful villa on the shores of Lake Garda. It’s everything she ever dreamt of, but all is not as it seems.
Why do strange things keep happening? Why does her employer, Marco Conti, look so tired and nervous and who are these people chasing him?
From his dacha outside Moscow, Chief of General Staff Sergey Verensky expects results, and Marco Conti is standing in his way. The vultures are circling and only Marcia can stop them.
Marcia finds herself drawn ever closer to the family, but when she is approached to spy on the family, she has a difficult choice to make: to become a spy or abandon them to their fate.
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Admit it, I did had you worried a little, didn’t I?
Did you really think I would go so easily?
Me, die?
No, never.
I am far too stubborn to leave in such an uneventful way.
I plan on going in the most dramatic and badass way possible, not a pesky little bullet.
So, I’m back baby. But not all is as it seems.
Death seemed so peaceful, so perfect.
But alas, this was not my destiny.
I had a goal, a mission in life. And I was going to be damned if I didn’t finish it.
Steadwell Sr owed me a life, he owed me his life.
I had waited twenty-nine long years for this,
Fought my way to the top to get to him.
So I came back, bigger and better than before.
With one small problem,
A problem that might hinder me in my revenge.
A problem that I must solve before I get to watch the life leave Steadwell’s eyes.
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This is a story of the author writing a story. It always needs something to catch the imagination and to start the flow of ideas turning into words. For me, this time it was hearing church bells in the middle of a summer night… That really did happen… And I was off…
I became Saskia Stevens, and I followed her lead from her discovery of Molly Jones’s tombstone to ‘time-slip’ into her life and those of her friends and family. Her story took me to see rural life in 19th-century England, to the terrible life of slaves on a Jamaican sugar plantation, and to experience the joy and fears of an adventure: travelling to South Africa, including becoming shipwrecked on an undiscovered tropical island on the way.
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A wave of celebration swept the neighbourhood when the long-lost parcel was finally discovered at the airport. For everyone, the find was a heartwarming reminder of why it’s so important to protect the rare and wonderful animals we share our world with.
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Helleh, originally from Berlin and of Jewish descent, is now an elderly lady, having survived years of living in concentration camps. The one thing that saved her was her ability to play the violin and become part of the Mädchenorchestra, the Girls’ Orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Now with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she lives in an Edinburgh nursing home, but her mind has become a place of torture and the shadows that lurk deep within shift and turn to take her back to the place she fears most: Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Rosie, a young nursing assistant, befriends Helleh, and through their friendship is able to help unravel the hidden secrets of her tortured mind, but doing so, she exposes disturbing links to her own family’s story and finds dark shadows that have lurked undiscovered for many years.
Penny is Rosie’s Nana; as a child evacuee, she is sent from London to the Scottish countryside, but her family are killed during an air raid on London, leaving her an orphan at the age of 12, broken and lonely. At 15 she meets a German PoW working as a farmhand, who sweeps her off her feet; she alienates everybody to be with him, then realises too late that he is not what he seemed. There is a darkness inside him that she couldn’t see and now she is alone, with nobody to turn to.
The far-reaching shadows that have permeated through the generations of these two families stem from the atrocities of the Third Reich and the rise of Hitler’s power; shadows that have shaped the personalities of individuals, which ultimately affected both Helleh as a camp survivor and her entire family, and shadows that have affected Penny and the lives of her child and granddaughter.
As the story unfolds, connections between the two families are uncovered and thus the far-reaching shadows penetrate deeper and deeper into their lives until Helleh, Rosie and Penny are left struggling to re-emerge from their own dark shadows.
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Our Emotional Complexities is a powerful journey into the raw, unfiltered core of what it means to feel. Each page captures a single emotion in its purest form, offering a space to pause, reflect and connect. These are the poems that speak to the moments you thought no one else understood. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself feel. Let the words guide you through the beautiful, messy complexity of being human. This is not just poetry. This is emotional truth, one feeling at a time.
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What if the end of World War III… was just the beginning?
When the satellites fall, the power goes dark, and the global order collapses overnight, every person on Earth becomes a soldier in a war no one was prepared for.
Hidden beneath decades of black-budget programmes, secret alliances, and buried bloodlines lies a truth so explosive it could shatter everything we thought we knew about history—and the future. The world’s elite have known this day would come. They just never expected it to arrive so soon.
Frontline Earth unleashes a world on the brink, where ancient families, rogue intelligence factions, and so-called conspiracy theories converge in a battle for humanity’s survival. At the centre is Marine Alex Matthews—torn between his oath and a shocking discovery that will change the course of the war, and the planet, forever.
Blending geopolitical thriller with pulse-pounding action and a shadow of science fiction, Frontline Earth: The Last Alliance is the explosive debut from Xander Lucas—where every conspiracy was just a warning, and the end of peace… was only the beginning.
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Late in his life and over a period of several months, Frank Ross places six coins under a rock on the slopes of a mountain in Scotland called Ben y Vrackie. Both the coins and the mountain have resonance and significance for Frank, as well as, in due course, for six other people. The book follows his life from his childhood into his early sixties. During this time he encounters twelve people who are to have a profound effect on him. Six are kind; six are not. The narrative examines the ancestry of all the characters and the consequent effect on their personality and behaviour, and thus how they interact with Frank.
Frank Ross is essentially a decent man who reacts in a singular manner to events and actions that he sees as either good or bad. This is a novel about retribution and love, but mainly about love.
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What begins as a quiet digital exchange evolves into an unexpected emotional reckoning. When a woman who has been heartbroken by a past covenant becomes the catalyst for a profound inner awakening, the narrator is drawn into a love both sacred and what seemed to be doomed. Through heartbreak, spiritual longing, and fragile reconnection, this expedition traces the haunting beauty of a bond that transcends reason—and the cost of surrendering to love’s most complex forms.
A lyrical meditation on connection, grief, and redemption, this is a story for anyone who has ever loved deeply, lost irrevocably, and still dared to hope.
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In his sixth book, Jean-Christian de Mons exceeds all his previous publications.
Readers will share his experiences in exotic countries and his encounters with remarkable personalities.
He also highlights the problems our marvellous world is suffering from—caused by ignorance, indifference, and intentional disdain.
This is a book that not only stimulates thinking but also offers immense pleasure.
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These are lost stories. Forgotten Australian history. Brought back to life by two years of investigation and research.
Some call it the first act of terrorism on Australian soil.
A day when the horrors of World War I came to Australian shores.
It was New Year’s Day. 1915. The Great War, World War I, was just months old.
In the outback mining town of Broken Hill, a small band of Afghan camel drivers lived on the fringes in their own community, known as the Ghantown. These men with their camels trekked essential food and supplies to isolated communities, remote cattle and sheep stations, deep in Australia’s unforgiving desert lands.
The Afghans were different: different skin colour, different faith, different dress. A way of life alien to almost everyone in Broken Hill. Some of these tough foreigners were loyal to a Sultan in Turkey, who had just declared war on Australia.
Broken Hill was a proud, tough trade union town. Many workers, in this then uncompromising town, disliked the Afghanis. Mainstream Broken Hill regarded the foreigners as scabs who stole badly needed work from the Teamsters’ Union. Bullying and racism were daily cruelties in this outback realm.
Simmering tensions were about to erupt. What followed was a spasm of violence so shocking it became known as The Battle of Broken Hill.
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