John Marrs
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English
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"How far would you go to find The One? A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you'll be matched with your perfect partner--the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results...
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English
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"Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement ... and will use every tool in its...
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English
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What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman's The Power in this dark, high-concept novel by the bestselling author of The One.
Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills-the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single.
But four couples are about to discover...
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English
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Travers, a doctor who deserted his military post, searches the frontier for the wife who left him. His quest is thrown off course when he saves Sarah, a woman left for dead after a wagon raid. With the cavalry, the law, and deranged outlaws on their trail, Sarah and Travers set off together to find this missing woman.
7) The Minders
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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In this electrifying near-future thriller, five strangers guard government secrets, but only four can be trusted.
In the 21st century, information is king. But computers can be hacked and files can be broken into - so a unique government initiative has been born. Five ordinary people have been selected to become Minders - the latest weapon in thwarting cyberterrorism. Transformed by a revolutionary medical procedure, the country's most classified...
In the 21st century, information is king. But computers can be hacked and files can be broken into - so a unique government initiative has been born. Five ordinary people have been selected to become Minders - the latest weapon in thwarting cyberterrorism. Transformed by a revolutionary medical procedure, the country's most classified...
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EDICIONES B
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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La novela en el que se basa The One, la exitosa serie de Netflix
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para encontrar a tu media naranja?
En un futuro no muy lejano, podremos encontrar, gracias a una simple prueba de ADN, a nuestra pareja ideal, a nuestro match perfecto: ese para el que estamos diseñados genéticamente.
Los científicos han descubierto que compartimos un gen con una sola persona más en el mundo, nuestra media naranja. Millones de personas,...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2019]
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"You're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die". Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this terrifying situation, including a faded TV star, a pregnant young woman, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an illegal immigrant, a husband and wife, and a suicidal man. From cameras...
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Get swept up in these heart-pounding thrillers from bestselling authors Mary Kubica and John Marrs as secrets refuse to stay hidden.
The Other Mrs.: Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But Sadie must be careful, for the more she discovers about Mrs....
11) For The Reward
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English
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Bounty hunters, William Cole and Belle MacLure, arrive in the town of Black Rock in search of outlaws and being rewarded with gold for their capture. Individually, they find out that there is no rule of law in Black Rock. The town is run by a criminal cattle baron, Clayton, who hires outlaws and criminals to do his bidding. An uncontrollable mercenary soon arrives, leaving the good people of Black Rock to fear for their lives.
14) The Prototype
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English
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When a government agent uncovers an alien plot to conquer Earth, he is captured and subjected to experimentation. He wakes up 300 years into the future without his memory to find Earth destroyed and that he is now the only hope for mankind.