A researcher studying collective decision-making in insect swarms is killed, setting off an urgent investigation that uncovers the emergence of autonomous, networked weapon swarms capable of making lethal choices without human oversight. A disparate group of operatives — scientists, intelligence agents and combat veterans — race to trace and neutralize a covert program that blends cutting-edge AI, military contractors and clandestine geopolitics, forcing confrontations over responsibility, control and the ethics of handing the kill decision to machines.

Una raccolta di lettere morali indirizzate a un amico, che offre consigli pratici e meditazioni stoiche su come vivere virtuosamente: affrontare la morte e il dolore, governare la rabbia e i desideri, gestire ricchezza e perdita, coltivare tranquillità interiore, autodisciplina, amicizia e saggezza pratica. Il testo combina insegnamenti filosofici con esempi quotidiani e inviti all'esame di coscienza, proponendo esercizi di vita volti a trasformare la teoria in pratica e a conseguire libertà e serenità d'animo.

El Vago, the Vagabond, recalls his life as a bandit and his friendship with a man who would become Pancho Villa. He remembers the idealism of Zapata and his love for the beautiful Consuelo. He reflects on how youthful loyalties, passion, and political fervor collided. The narrative registers the tragic violence of the Mexican Revolution and how it reshaped lives and loyalties.

Spring 1947. Indian independence is imminent and the British flag will soon be lowered across India. Thousands who made their lives there as planters, civil servants, or in the Indian army prepare to return to England, including Will and Flo Sutherland, who fell in love at the end of the war. India has been the defining experience of their lives and they must find how to make a new life now.

Keeping Secrets is a book by Sue Gee. The brief description identifies the author as Gee, Sue and gives the title as Keeping Secrets. The supplied entry consists solely of that author credit and title, with no further bibliographic or contextual information. There are no additional details about plot, characters, setting, or publication in the description.

A richly detailed cultural and historical portrait of an ancient, vanished civilization, tracing its origins, language, arts, philosophy, and the development of a unique technology that links worlds; the narrative covers the society’s literary and engineering achievements, the internal conflicts and moral choices that led to its decline and catastrophic fall, and the attempts by later explorers and survivors to understand, preserve, and reckon with the legacy left behind.

Kevin and Maureen Hurley are middle aged twins who live in remote Irish farming country with their bedridden father. Maureen believes she is carrying a child, and the siblings set out to find a plausible sire for that child. Their search takes place on the remote farm where they live. The book traces their efforts to identify a father while they remain with their bedridden father in the rural setting.

At eight, Alfie discovers he can undo any moment and live it again, but he must accept the consequences of his second attempt. He uses the gift to erase embarrassments, test risky near-death experiences, and shape his love life until he falls for Gianna, but he learns one caveat: once he undoes a love, that person can never love him again. Years later, an ailing Alfie is arrested after allegedly cheating at roulette, and a detective's interrogation gradually reveals his life and its outcome.

Charles Maxwell is a thirty eight year veteran CIA agent who has been told he has only six months to live from cancer. He finances a good death by selling $100,000 worth of second rate secrets to the Russians and retreats to a secluded Swiss chalet in the shadow of the Matterhorn. A Soviet dissident, Constantin Vronsky, is hiding nearby. The KGB and the CIA converge, forcing Maxwell into a final deadly game of cross and double cross.

Told through poignant letters, the novel chronicles correspondence between Yatou, a young woman battling cancer, and her mentor Guru Xue. As Yatou confides pain, fear, and fleeting moments of grace, the letters unfold into a story of love, suffering, and transcendence. Under Guru Xue's steady spiritual guidance, Yatou learns to embrace life's impermanence and discovers a path to redemption.

A series of theoretical essays and interviews develops a practice of mapping social and psychic territories that rejects Oedipal psychoanalysis in favor of a schizoanalytic approach emphasizing multiplicity, machinic assemblages, and lines of flight; it proposes concrete cartographies of desire and subjectivity that reveal how capitalism, institutions, and technological systems shape individual and collective experience while also pointing to transversal practices and micro-political resistances that open new forms of ethical and political becoming.

Norsemen sail across the Channel into the realm of the great Frankish emperor and confront a massive Crusader force. Aboard a dragon ship an English monk guards a book wrapped in cloth whose true worth is known only to him. At their leader's side is Raven, with a blood spot in his eye and magic in his soul, and he and Cynethryth, the runaway daughter of an English king, plunge into an epic clash of men and faiths.

Emily Brand, a physicist, makes a major energy discovery and then disappears. Her research partner dies in a plane crash and a brutally ambitious oil executive, David Lucci, uses NARCON to prevent her from going public. He resorts to torture, blackmail, and murder to make her pay for what she did to him over twenty years ago.

This fictional account follows Mother Seton, the first American-born saint. It traces the tragedies and triumphs of her life, portraying the challenges she faced and the ways those events shaped her. The narrative centers on her struggle to triumph over pain and to find meaning in life, presenting a portrait of endurance and inward searching.

A media colossus is set to form in a merger between Lawrence/Sunshine Productions and MacGregor Communications. A breathless cross-country pursuit from Maine's rocky coast to Hollywood's glitter palaces brings James Whiting, who is already fighting for his life, together with Jeanne Darrow, a young widow dangerously close to a secret that kills. Their discovery of the unholy union between the two entertainment giants could save the soul of a nation but will require one final, unthinkable sacrifice.

A year after his best friend Sam died, Oliver still texts Sam's number and cannot stop, especially as the anniversary approaches. When he accidentally calls, someone else answers: Ben, an astronomy student in Seattle who has been reading Oliver's private messages after the number was reassigned. They meet and feel an undeniable spark, but Oliver discovers something strange that could keep them apart.

A young hobbit inherits a powerful, corrupting ring and leaves his peaceful homeland on a desperate quest to destroy it before a rising dark power can reclaim it; a diverse fellowship of hobbits, a ranger, an elf, a dwarf, a nobleman, and a wizard is formed to guide and guard him, and together they face ancient evils, treacherous landscapes, and bitter internal strains that culminate in a catastrophic loss and the breaking of their company, forcing friends onto separate paths while the hobbit and his loyal companion press on toward Mordor.

Clarkton is set in 1945. A factory strike in a small Massachusetts town escalates into violent conflict that engulfs residents, from the factory owner George Clark Lowell and strike-buster Hamilton Gelb to labor organizers and local shopkeepers. Returning veterans find themselves drawn into the struggle. The novel examines how a high-stakes labor battle affects a whole community after World War II.