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When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.

De intelligente Francis Dean woont met zijn moeder in een vervallen trailerpark in New Jersey. De hoop op een betere toekomst heeft hij opgegeven – tot hij de waarheid achter zijn verwekking ontdekt. Zijn bestaan komt blijkbaar voort uit een absurd experiment waaraan zijn moeder achttien jaar geleden deelnam. Zijn vader is geen loser die zijn gezin in de steek liet, maar een genie, cum laude afgestudeerd aan Harvard. Hem ontmoeten zou Francis’ leven kunnen veranderen. Samen met zijn beste vriend Grover, een excentrieke whizzkid, en het meisje van zijn dromen, de delicate en onvoorspelbare Anne-May, begint hij aan een tocht dwars door Amerika om zijn vader te vinden. Hij wil ontdekken wie hij werkelijk is en hij heeft niets te verliezen – denkt hij. Op het geniale af is het verhaal van een spannende ontdekkingsreis met meedogenloze wendingen en een adembenemende afrekening.

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins. Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can't.

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: - What President Trump's staff really thinks of him - What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama - Why FBI director James Comey was really fired - Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room - Who is really directing the Trump administration's strategy in the wake of Bannon's firing - What the secret to communicating with Trump is - What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and a race trial that leads him to the Supreme Court, this novel showcases a comic genius at the height of his craft. It challenges the core principles of the U.S. Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, father-son dynamics, and the quest for racial equality—embodied in the black Chinese restaurant. The narrator, raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens on the outskirts of Los Angeles, resigns himself to a life of lower-middle-class stagnation, reflecting on the cracks in his childhood bedroom ceiling. His upbringing under a single father, a controversial sociologist, subjects him to racially charged psychological studies, leading him to believe his father's work will culminate in a memoir that could solve their financial struggles. However, after his father's death in a police shoot-out, he discovers the memoir never existed, leaving him with only a bill for a drive-thru funeral. Driven by this betrayal and the decay of his hometown, he embarks on a mission to restore Dickens, which has been erased from the map. Teaming up with the town's most famous resident, the last surviving Little Rascal, he undertakes the outrageous act of reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, ultimately landing him in the Supreme Court.

Alles wat gebeurt moet openbaar zijn Mae Holland kan haar geluk niet op als ze wordt aangenomen bij de Cirkel, het machtigste internetbedrijf ter wereld. De persoonlijke e-mails van de gebruikers, hun sociale media, betalingsverkeer en aankopen zijn met elkaar verbonden door een universeel besturingsprogramma. Het resultaat: iedereen heeft slechts één online identiteit. Een nieuw tijdperk van openheid en gemeenschapszin is aangebroken. Privacy is diefstal Mae laat zich meeslepen door de energie van het bedrijf, de groepsactiviteiten en de feestjes, de oneindige mogelijkheden – zelfs als ze het leven buiten de campus langzaam uit het oog verliest, een ontmoeting met een collega haar in verwarring brengt, en haar bijdrage aan de Cirkel steeds meer openbaar wordt. Geheimen zijn leugens <i>De Cirkel</i> is een intelligente, scherpe en spannende roman die vragen oproept over ons geheugen, onze geschiedenis, privacy, democratie en de grenzen aan onze kennis van de wereld.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

Harry has always envied his younger brother George - a high-flying TV executive with two kids, a beautiful home and a covetable wife - but Harry also knows that George is a dangerous man with a murderous temper. When an adulterous kiss at Thanksgiving prompts a chain of unexpected events, George finally loses control, and the result is an act so shocking that the brothers are hurled into entirely new lives, ones in which they must both seek absolution. ~from the back cover