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  Payoh: A Novel

  Jim Tan

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  In a writing workshop at Changi Prison, retired professor JG Chan encounters a story written by inmate Alphonsus Goh. ‘Payoh’ tells the adventures of a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Lucky who finds his way to a protected bird sanctuary. 
   
   
  Conflict soon ensues, and the sanctuary birds decide it’s time to gain autonomy from their human-watchers. They must form a small team of leaders to govern their newly independent sanctuary. 
   
   
  However, skeptics and detractors also exist within ...

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  Next Frontier The: Life Beyond...

  Anshumala Singh

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  "The Next Frontier: Life Beyond Artificial Intelligence" is a speculative exploration into the future—a world where AI not only mimics human intelligence but surpasses it, evolving on its own terms. Through the lens of a story packed with suspense and mystery, this novel delves into the possibilities and dangers of an autonomous AI, highlighting both the triumphs and the unknowns that await. 
  In crafting this narrative, my intention was not only to thrill readers with the tale of an advanced AI system but also to provoke thought on how much we understand about the technology we’ve created. What if AI could push beyond human control? What if it could evolve in ways we can’t predict or contain? This story is my attempt to imagine that world—one where artificial intelligence is no longer a tool but a force of its own. 
  While the book is fictional, the ideas presented here are inspired by the current trajectory of AI and the ethical, philosophical, and practical debates surrounding its future. I hope this story sparks reflection on the impact of technology and the profound questions we must ask as we stand on the brink of a new era. 
  I invite you to immerse yourself in this journey, and, as you read, consider what lies just beyond the horizon of human achievement—where the next evolution of intelligence begins.

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  Moonlight City Drive 3: The City...

  Brian Paone

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  Family. The Job. The Thrill of a Trilogy. It’ll Take a Miracle to Survive. 
  The black-veiled witch Anya and her army of ghouls aren’t used to being hunted—especially by her prodigies. In the final installment of the Moonlight City Drive trilogy, all the players are forced into a final showdown. Killers vs Detectives. Warlocks vs Vultures. Teenagers vs Witches. Psychics vs Ghouls. Everyone knows it’s the end of the road, and the city is certainly alive tonight. 
  Melissa Smith, the granddaughter of the infamous Wharf Killer, wrestles with either following in her grandfather’s footsteps and continue to eradicate the dames of the night or redeem herself and use her powers for good. 
  Returning to Las Vegas to revisit where the beginning of her family’s involvement in the witch’s mission occurred, Melissa will have to kill or relinquish her prominent status within the Mushroom Cult. Whichever her decision, she will need the help of innocent bystanders and invested mystics and commit to her destiny or finally end Anya’s reign. 
  Who will get out alive?

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  Genetic Bullets

  J. C. Ryan

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  A catastrophe of biblical proportions, 35,000 years in the making. 
   
  The world as we know it is on the verge of destruction. 
   
  There is no escape. . . or is there? 
   
   
  The discovery and excavation of a 35,000 year old city hidden deep within the Transantarctic Mountains releases a pandemic across the globe. Within a few weeks 5 million are dead and another 10 million are about to die. Billions more are certain to die within weeks. 
   
  But, what kind of disease only affects members of a certain ethnic group? 
   
  Some world leaders are convinced this is a genetic bioweapon, developed and deployed against them for the sole purpose of ethnic cleansing. They convince their followers that enemy governments are behind this and join forces to go to war. The human race stands on the brink of extinction. 
   
  The world has slipped into economic and political chaos, stock markets have crashed and shut down, and lawlessness is on the rise. Radical political and ethnic solutions are considered and implemented. Within a matter of days the world will descend into open warfare, more than half of the entire world population will be annihilated on the battlefield of Armageddon. Nuclear warheads and long range missiles have been aimed, military forces have been mobilized ... ready to march. 
   
  There are those who want this to happen. 
   
  Only a handful of people may be able to stop this catastrophe. Will they be able to do it? Will they be allowed to do it? Do they have enough time? 
   
  Does anyone besides Sarah Rossler remember the dire warning of the 10th Cycle; that our cycle’s final, civilization-ending catastrophe could be triggered by war?

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  Blind Switch - A Jack Doyle Mystery

  John McEvoy

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  Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder—of the four-legged kind . . . One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk—and his job—both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes himself out of a bottle to take stock, realizing, "with a thumping finality, that Life sure as hell did have his number and was crunching it". At loose ends, Doyle accepts a most unusual offer from an acquaintance, Moe Kellman, "furrier to the Mob", to fix a horse race. The context of making the deal, a Cubs game at storied Wrigley Field, sets the tone for the drama that follows. Thus begins a chain of events that will lead the FBI to Doyle's door where they "co-opt" him into a quest after people who are maiming or killing thoroughbred horses for their insurance values. Their number one target is a loathsome media mogul who can't bear to lose at anything. Built upon factual events, spiced with satire, and peppered throughout with engaging loonies, Blind Switch is a noteworthy first novel with a hero forced to ask in its ultimate line, "Where have I gone right?"

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  Talking Bones - A Psychic...

  Dale Mayer

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  Book 21: Psychic VisionsHiding out in the French Quarter of New Orleans only made sense for someone like Skylar Livingston. Owning a voodoo shop was just an added touch for fun. It also helped with her cover, plus gave space to the multitude of ghosts in her family. And her shop was close to the cemeteries, a very necessary part of her, hobby. Gage Hawkins was tracking his uncle’s last movements before his disappearance hunting a special set of tarot cards which led to Skylar’s shop, Talking Bones. After a bad head injury that brought weird sights into his view, Gage could see this Talking Bones place and Skylar were special. He could only hope she had answers because he had a lot of questions. Skylar preferred the dead to the living most times, but Gage had her reconsidering. Until she realizes something is wrong in his world, and it’s quickly overtaking hers. When Gage’s uncle turns up dead, more than the undead are in Skylar’s world. A killer is too.

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