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Bruno Amato

    A Million Little Pieces
    Dragon tears
    Podsvetie
    The Industries of The Future
    Odpor
    The body
    • Contemporary / British English Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.

      The body2018
      4,3
    • The Industries of The Future

      • 304 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster. As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon. From refugee camps in the Congo and Syrian war zones, to visiting the world's most powerful people in business and government, Ross's travels amounted to a four-year masterclass in the changing nature of innovation. In The Industries of the Future, Ross distils his observations on the forces that are changing the world. He highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains how countries thrive or sputter. Ross examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including robotics, artificial intelligence, the commercialization of genomics, cybercrime and the impact of digital technology. Blending storytelling and economic analysis, he answers questions on how we will need to adapt. Ross gives readers a vivid and informed perspective on how sweeping global trends are affecting the ways we live, now and tomorrow.

      The Industries of The Future2017
      4,0
    • Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has "sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished." It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces.

      A Million Little Pieces2003
      3,7
    • Forced to kill in the line of duty, police detective Harry Lyon finds his rational world transformed into a place of bizarre surprises and unimaginable dangers. 400,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Alt.

      Dragon tears1998
      3,8
    • Podsvetie

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      Román plný mystiky a sci-fi. Hatch Harrison, obeť autonehody, zomiera skôr, ako sa dostane do nemocnice, no lekár vynímočných schopností mu priam zázračne vráti život. Hatch, ktorý dostáva druhú šancu, spolu so svojou ženou Lindsey sa opäť tešia zo života a objavujú jeho nové krásy, až kým ich záhadné a desivé udalosti nepostavia zoči-voči neznámemu zlu. Hoci si Hatch z posmrtného života nič nepamätá, má dôvod obávať sa, že si zo záhrobia priniesol späť medzi živých niečo hrozné.

      Podsvetie1997
      3,9
    • Odpor

      • 1080 stránok
      • 38 hodin čítania

      Na začiatku dochádza k zlyhaniu ľudského faktora, na konci zem posievajú mŕtvoly. Nedostatky v zabezpečení laboratória na vývoj biologických zbraní a príliš starostlivý otec mladej rodiny spôsobia únik smrtiaceho vírusu superchrípky. Nezastaviteľná choroba v priebehu niekoľkých týždňov vyhladí viac ako deväťdesiatdeväť percent svetovej populácie, zvyšky sa brodia v troskách civilizácie. Tí, čo prežili, sa vydajú na cestu – tajuplné sny ich ako magnet priťahujú do Las Vegas, kde sa usídlil muž s mnohými menami a podobami, alebo k domčeku uprostred kukuričných polí. Ten obýva staručká Matka Abagail, ktorej Boh dožičil dlhý život, aby mu pomohla naplniť Plán. Svet sa ešte len spamätáva z katastrofy a na šachovnici dobra a zla sa už rozohráva partia, v ktorej sa komunita na strane svetla musí postaviť na odpor temnote. Zvíťazí temný muž, ktorý ovláda mágiu, alebo starena, ktorá si aj v úctyhodnom veku stoosem rokov sama pečie koláče? V románe Odpor Stephen King na veľkej ploche majstrovsky vykresľuje uveriteľný postapokalyptický svet, ale aj oveľa desivejšie zákutia ľudskej duše.

      Odpor1983
      4,3