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Dominique Defert

    Digital Fortress
    The Host : novel
    The Art of Fielding
    The Guardians
    Jennie
    Steve Jobs
    • From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In iSteve: The Book of Jobs, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs\' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with…

      Steve Jobs
      4.2
    • Podczas ekspedycji naukowej w Afryce, dr Hugo Archibald z Muzeum Historii Naturalnej w Bostonie odkrywa małpkę, której matka umiera. Wzruszony, postanawia ją uratować i nadaje jej imię Jennie. Po powrocie do Bostonu, gdzie czekają na niego jego dwoje dzieci, wychowuje ją jak własne. Jennie zaczyna zachowywać się jak człowiek: uczy się jeździć na trójkołowym rowerze, bawi się z rodzeństwem, ubiera się samodzielnie... Jej niewinność i sposób bycia wzruszają wszystkich, którzy ją spotykają. Wkrótce przyciąga uwagę primatologa, który pragnie kontynuować eksperyment, ucząc ją języka migowego. Jednak po zakończeniu eksperymentu, co zostaje z małpki Jennie? Czy znajdzie swoje miejsce w okrutnym świecie ludzi?

      Jennie
      3.0
    • The Guardians

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      He was framed for murder.Now he needs a miracle. 22 years ago Quincy Miller was sentenced to life without parole. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no reliable witnesses and little motive. Just the fact that Russo had botched Quincy's divorce case, that Quincy was black in a largely all-white town and that a blood-splattered torch was found in the boot of Quincy's car. A torch he swore was planted. A torch that was conveniently destroyed in a fire just before his trial.The lack of evidence made no difference to judge or jury. In the eyes of the law Quincy was guilty and, no matter how often he protested his innocence, his punishment was life in prison.Finally, after 22 years, comes Quincy's one and only chance of freedom. An innocence lawyer and minister, Cullen Post, takes on his case. Post has exonerated eight men in the last ten years. He intends to make Quincy the next.But there were powerful and ruthless people behind Russo's murder. They prefer that an innocent man dies in jail rather than one of them. There's one way to guarantee that. They killed one lawyer 22 years ago, and they'll kill another without a second thought.

      The Guardians
      4.1
    • The Art of Fielding

      • 605 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.

      The Art of Fielding
      3.9
    • Science fiction. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie Stryder's body didn't expect her to refuse to relinquish possession of her mind

      The Host : novel
      3.9
    • When The National Security Agency S Invincible Code-Breaking Machine Encounters A Mysterious Code It Cannot Break, The Agency Calls In Its Head Cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, A Brilliant, Beautiful Mathematician. What She Uncovers Sends Shock Waves Through The Corridors Of Power. The Nsa Is Being Held Hostage Not By Guns Or Bombs, But By A Code So Complex That If Released Would Cripple U.S. Intelligence.Caught In An Accelerating Tempest Of Secrecy And Lies, Fletcher Battles To Save The Agency She Believes In. Betrayed On All Sides, She Finds Herself Fighting Not Only For Her Country But For Her Life, And In The End, For The Life Of The Man She Loves&

      Digital Fortress
      3.4