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When a high-tech geek named Eddie ends up in the hospital, the victim of a hit-and-run accident, Turing the investigative artificial-intelligence computer comes to the aid of her private-detective friend Tim to find out who was responsible. The following investigation leads to some of Eddie's unsavory friends who are using his computers in a variety of scams, cons, and other less-than-legal endeavors.
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 1
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"When Zack, a workaholic computer expert, suddenly disappears, his friend, Turing, a sentient artificial intelligence personality created by Zack, begins to suspect foul play and turns sleuth to find out what happened to her creator."
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 2
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Ray Santiago's friends from work know him as a brilliant-but-easygoing systems engineer who spends a lot of time on his favorite online role-playing game. But the game is over for Ray: his colleagues from work, Maude, Tim, and Turing, have just found out about Ray's murder in a dark alley. He was shot, and his laptop stolen. It could be just another D.C. street crime. But if Turing's password was in that computer-and it's fallen into the wrong hands-she...
25) The ice orphan
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"It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they...
26) Access denied
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 3
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When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality and sleuth, uncovers information tied to criminal Nestor Garcia's long-dormant credit cards, she sends her human assistants to investigate, but when one of them becomes embroiled in murder, the A.I. detective must find a way to bring the guilty party to light.
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Patrick's dinosaurs volume 3
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After looking up information about dinosaurs on his computer, Patrick is awakened by a dinosaur who arrives in a spaceship to take Patrick to his planet for show and tell.
28) The terminal man
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Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So much so that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure known as stage three. During this highly specialized surgery, electrodes are placed deep in Benson's brain, sending monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. The operation is...
29) Help!
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Help is a comic fantasy set in contemporary London. Frank Wormold is an unsuccessful writer whose luck suddenly changes when a Hollywood producer offers him a large sum of money for one of his stories. The problem is he's only written half of the story. To finish it on time he uses the help of a computer. At first the computer is very helpful, but when it starts to take over first his story, and then his life, he needs 'help' of a different kind.
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30) Mr. Miller
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Michael Bellicher is working for a successful consultancy agency and has everything going for him. During a night spent at work, he witnesses something he should never have seen. Attempting to flee the tightening stranglehold of the conspirators, Michael finds himself tailed by the mysterious Mr. Miller, who seems to know almost everything about him. Den Tex, in his exhilarating fast-paced style, creates a scarily timely universe ruled by espionage-like...
31) www.Here-I-am
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Through a computer, a teenager who thought religion was only for children meets someone claiming to be God, and begins discussing the Bible and how it relates to scientific knowledge and everyday life. Includes "Things to think about" for each chapter.
35) Eye of the Drone
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An all-new novella in the New York Times bestselling Net Force series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler.
In Munich, a renowned computer scientist dies. Then, his daughter vanishes. Both under mysterious circumstances.
Kali Alcazar, a master hacker, wants to know why. As she delves deeper into the suspicious events, she spots something in the sky - a rare, advanced drone -- and realizes she's a target herself....
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"In the early years of the Iraq war, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the US government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions, " is retrieved from the vaults. Over...
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When Scooby-Doo and the gang try to capture the Phantom Virus, they are accidentally transported into a video game based on their own Mystery, Inc. adventures. While pursuing the Phantom Virus through the game's ten outrageous levels, the gang travels from the prehistoric past to the space-age future and even tangles with a hair-raising horde of virtual villains from their most famous capers! Log on today!
40) ¡Es un libro!
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Un asno con una computadora aprende de un mono o gorila como funciona un libro.
A donkey with a laptop computer and a gorilla with a printed book discuss the merits of their preferred formats.