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In this forceful, short audiobook, technology guru and author of the best-selling Social Media is Bull (St. Martins Press) B. J. Mendelson exposes the crude reality behind the smiley face of Internet networking: data trading. We are all auctioning our personal information, the audiobook argues, to the highest bidder. Mendelson discusses the end of privacy from a contemporary perspective.

Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge.

Chase and Wen collide with the CIA in a desperate attempt to protect a top-secret program. A mysterious group is methodically destroying tech companies, and domestic terrorists are setting the nation on fire. A technology that sees everything can be blinding; it's one hell of a hot summer.

The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy, and it is human skill which develops them. However, the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of business; rather, they apply to just about every significant personal transaction in your life....

When Paulo Savaget was ten months old growing up in Brazil, he became deathly ill. His parents had no access to baby formula he needed - but managed to save his life using a simple workaround. Decades later, Savaget began to study workarounds to find different ways they can address our most urgent problems. For ages, corporations have been lecturing the world on how to get things done - but Savaget soon discovered that much about problem-solving can be learned from the scrappiest groups.

A billionaire fugitive and a disavowed spy fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad, while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. In less than 24 hours, it will be too late. Time to get dirty!

The time is the immediate future, and the Caliphate is the enemy in the third Frank Adversego Thriller. Mullah Muhammed Foobar, the mysterious leader of a post-ISIS terrorist organization, has won control of much of the Middle East. Now he threatens to launch a horrific attack that will bring the United States and Europe to their knees. But how? The CIA turns to cybersecurity super sleuth Frank Adversego to find the answer. In a race against time, Frank must overcome personal - as well as cyber trials - to save the Western world from destruction.

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history's greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we're supposed to be doing and why we shouldn't feel so bad about it.

They’ve manipulated the truth, buried every fact under layers of lies. You might survive if you follow two rules: Never trust what you see. Never believe what you hear. Caught in a web of deceit, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy must find the truth before it finds them. Facing their greatest challenge, they struggle to navigate a reality where everything is suddenly false. With no one left to trust and nowhere to go, Chase and Wen are forced to rely on their enemies to save them.

Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of a personal tragedy. Michael, a Wall Street trader, is meanwhile keeping a secret: He's lost the couple's life savings. And Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data-mining project of epic scale, whose mysterious creator has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple - and the country.

Twenty-four hours ago, Chase and Wen, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy, thought they still had time. They believed that millions wouldn’t die; they hoped a war wouldn’t come. Now, they are desperately searching for an obscure element, and just trying to stay alive. Time can be a real killer.

A scientist is missing, people are scared, and a storm is coming. Chase and Wen must find the man who has discovered a way to manipulate the weather before his invention falls into the wrong hands and makes Earth uninhabitable. But others may get there first. The Chinese, Russians and US intelligence agencies enter a global game of cat and mouse to obtain the secrets and win the ultimate advantage. Will there be enough time? As the body count climbs, it becomes clear that someone else is after the invention...after Chase and Wen. But who do they work for?

In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi.

In a story that will blow your mind, a fugitive billionaire and a former spy must stop an insidious plot to control the population through high-tech mind reading. Chase and Wen are trapped in a maze of illusion, reality, and secrets, as they struggle to overcome an enemy so powerful, their very own thoughts are used against them.

Russ Thornton is a hard-hitting journalist known for his ability to take on big targets in government and in business. An old flame, now a Capitol Hill staffer, contacts him out of the blue wanting to disclose some top-secret information. But she is gunned down in cold blood, right in front of him. Worse, the killers are concerned about what Thornton knows, and who he may tell. He finds himself in a game of cat-and-mouse, where the stakes are life and death and the surveillance technology is so sophisticated that he wouldn't believe it existed - if it weren't implanted in his own head.

When the flood hits, America's East Coast is evacuated by every means possible. Brooklyn paramedic Travis Cooke had dreamed of reuniting his family, but not like this. Escaping New York with his son and the ex-wife he still loves - and her new husband - they find themselves evacuated on the luxury cruise ship, the Festival of the Waves. Hours later, the Festival lies dead in the open Atlantic: no power, no communications, and nowhere near enough food.

On a secret military base tucked in a remote desert mountain, a dangerous machine lies hidden from the American public. Known as the Actuator, this machine is capable of transforming entire communities into alternate realities. In theory, these often terrifying realities are reversible. The scientists in charge of this machine employ operatives called Machine Monks, who attune their minds to manifest single ideas from the realms of fantasy and science fiction.

In the shadow of the Pentagon, a secret DoD brain research experiment goes terribly wrong, and an ex-Special Ops soldier escapes, believing he is Viktor Dragunov, the Russian operative from the 80s thriller novel, Attack on America. To capture him, the Feds turn to the person uniquely qualified to predict his next moves, the man who created the fictional character, best-selling author Mathias King.

Grit and hard work are all Hugh Morris has ever known. Marriage and children are indulgences he can't afford. That is until city girl Edna Archer arrives at Aster Ridge Ranch and shakes Hugh's resolve. When peril strikes, Hugh realizes the stakes are higher than he ever could have dreamed and vows he will risk everything to keep Edna safe. Edna isn't afraid of hard work. She knows the true enemy is love. Away from Chicago and the heartbreak that still haunts her, Aster Ridge offers a new kind of life—one she's determined to live independently.