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1) Pill
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Lightning strikes and the consciousnesses of Rita and Castro return to their bodies. However, the participants in the experiment still retain the ability to sense each other, to influence each other's thoughts and actions. Sanja, wounded during the thunderstorm, loses his memory. His enemies search for him. Rita and Castro rush to his aid. The three heroes meet, but not everything is easy. Rita and Sanya, barely having had time to declare their feelings,...
2) Bitter pill
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"For the Sisterhood, there's a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it's someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen. Myra Rutledge's childhood friend has spent tens of thousands of dollars on remedies to boost longevity. But far from improving her health, the medications seem to be destroying it. Myra becomes suspicious of the trio of doctors in charge of the program, especially once the Sisterhood's investigations...
3) A Lead Pill
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My Gran used to say, "There are times when the only way out is a lead pill." These are stories when things got that bad.
A Lead Pill is the second collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE.
Stories of loneliness and betrayal, of false hope and shattered dreams, of gifts and regrets, of love and accidental kindness. Each story follows separate paths that lead to the understanding that sometimes the only solution is a lead pill.
A life of stacked...
4) Bitter Pill
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The final installment in Peter Church's Dark Web Trilogy
Amid rumors of bartenders paid to spike drinks and then deliver drugged college women to paying, eager patrons, University of Cape Town (UCT) authorities move quickly to limit the damage-but the police don't want to believe there is a problem. A world away in Seattle, Carlos De Palma, the shadowy operator behind Dark Video, is plotting his survival strategy in the ever-changing Internet landscape....
5) Maya Pill
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In the traditions of Victor Pelevin and Vladimir Sorokin, German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed I am a Chechen! is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly funny twenty-first century satire, The Maya Pill tells the story of a mid-level manager at a frozen-food import company who comes upon a box of psychotropic pills that's accidentally been slipped into a shipment. He takes one, and disappears down the...
6) Big Pill
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Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
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Caught in a war that pits greed and ambition against conscience and love, Emma Conway faces the fight of her life-to save her family, her company, and everything she treasures.
Emma is finally living the dream-a happy second marriage and a great career. She has built Percival & Baxter's painkiller, Acordinol, into a huge success. But her dream becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary...
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The birds and the bees is supposedly the story of what sex and love is all about, and the speech of all its meanings and lure are presumed to be delivered by mother/father/both or that adult in your life well before any such dealings. Well, now, readers, raise your hand up high if you ever got that talk in due time!
Much like the majority of youngsters, the main character in this book, Loddy, never got that speech and therefore was faced with life-altering...
9) The Red Pill
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When you read this book, you will experience something like what Neo experienced in the movie, The Matrix, when he took the Red Pill instead of the Blue Pill. Your perception of yourself, your relationships and the world around you will totally change. You will realize that you have been looking at yourself, your relationships and the world around you through a lens created by taking the Blue Pill. The Blue Pill allows you to live your life out of...
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“Taking the Orange Pill” is a reference to a famous Hollywood movie in which the protagonist is asked to choose between two pills of different colors that either lead to continued blissful ignorance or the unvarnished truth. While most people have heard about Bitcoin and understand it to be a digital currency, too few truly understand why Bitcoin is so pivotal to their future. This concise book aims to communicate just that.
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A non-fiction transformational personal growth book on how to unplug and connect to yourself and loved ones, mixed with magical realism fiction. Why are we living in such crazy times? Why are there so many challenges at once involving the whole planet?
When will this bizarre time really end?
What is a rational animal? What is a thinking organism?
From where does the "thinking" and "rational" part of this flesh come from? Who gives the flesh the...
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This book may be a hard pill to swallow. But it's a necessary conversation that must be had for anyone wishing to sanely navigate the chaotic & predatory culture we all find ourselves in. We all know something is just not right. We all sense the imbalance, injustice & insanity. But what can we actually do about it? Who & what can be trusted?
These 5 authors are not your typical academic lot. Most of what is discussed inside this book would never...
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Ever think you have something all figured out just to get the rug pulled from underneath your feet, and then you realize everything that you thought was real was actually fake, and everything you were taught was truth was actually you being dumbed down, deterred from truth?
This is your reality check, dose of realism, wake-up call, bold awakening, truth in your face.
Warning, those who want to remain asleep in the dark, in la-la land, should keep...
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It's early 2016, and divorced, liberal-minded Martin is having trouble meeting women. He reluctantly agrees to some coaching from Rob, his Trump supporting brother-in-law. Skeptical at first, Martin's romantic life improves immediately. Maybe Rob and his "red pill" dating strategies aren't so backward after all. But after Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election, Martin's newfound romantic skills are put to the test. Can he still find...
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On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Janina has been there since she was ten years old, and now she's fourteen. She feels so safe inside its walls that she's afraid to leave. Devante's parents bring him there after a tragedy leaves him depressed and suicidal. Even though he's in a different place, he can't escape the memories that come flooding back when he least...
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In the not-so-distant future, organs can be re-grown from a handful of stem cells.
For patients who can afford the treatment and hang on to life support for long enough, the prognosis is good. Even the most complex organ of all can be reproduced in the lab with nearly perfect accuracy. Nearly.
Patients of brain regeneration face a wide range of problems, from loss of motor functions or intelligence to sociopathy. Spurred by personal tragedy, research...
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A timely and gutsy YA novel based on the Tony and Grammy Award winning musical from Alanis Morissette, Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard!
Swallow it down-what a jagged little pill . . .
Jagged Little Pill: The Novel follows the intertwining lives of five teens whose world is changed forever after the events at a party.
Adopted Frankie struggles to see eye-to-eye with her mother-who would rather ignore a problem and preserve their "perfect"...
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Paul Ballman has helped some of the biggest companies in the world get their leadership strategies on track. He has conducted detailed interviews with 2,000 leaders about what has worked for them and why. He has studied the simple success formulas and models that are peddled by gurus across the industry, and come to the conclusion that in the real world they just don't work. He now invites you to take the Red Pill and discover the truth about leadership....
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Portents, Pill-popping and an Almighty Strop London has entered the Eighties and skies are darkening everywhere as violence starts to flood into the capital. Lisa Moran is one of the most famous actresses of her day. She longs for more money, more sex and that one great role that will put her back in the national spotlight. Instead, she meets a strange young Welsh writer, Daniel Jenkins, who is something of a freelance prophet and who opens her eyes...
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