Williamson, Michael Z.
Summary: The Prescots were just Welsh coal miners - until they found the technology needed to exploit the subsurface ores of entire planets. They are the richest people in the universe, having more money that most planetary governments and effectively unlimited resources, but the only thing that may be bigger than their wealth is their number of enemies. Ripple Creek Security provides them with highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCastle, Jayne
Summary: If there's something Ravenna Chastain knows, it's when to end things. After almost becoming the victim of a cult that believes she's a witch, Ravenna leaves her old life to become a matchmaker. After failing to find a match for Ethan Sweetwater, she agrees to be his date for a business function, where things heat up and their relationship becomes more complicated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CASWang, Kathy
Summary: "In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANMorgan Jones, Chris
Summary: An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic madness of Russia and Georgia's deadly covert conflict, in this rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorgan Jones, Chris
Summary: Hired to expose the criminal networks of a Russian bureaucrat who has amassed an illicit fortune, London investigator Benjamin Webster uncovers evidence that his target may also be responsible for the murder of a colleague.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaton 2019Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEARobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Robinson 2004Stevens, Taylor.
Summary: Dealing information to wealthy clients throughout the world, Vanessa Munroe hopes to leave her unconventional past behind her until a mission to find the missing daughter of a Texas oil billionaire forces her to return to the central Africa region of her youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEStevens, Taylor.
Summary: Vanessa Munroe deals in information - expensive information - for corporations, heads of state, and anyone else who can pay. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Vanessa became the protâegâe of an infamous gunrunner at fourteen, and earned the respect of dangerous men. After a decade of building a new life in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. Pulled into the mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEGrace, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAAnam, Tahmima
Summary: Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to revolutionize artificial intelligence when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC ANAGibson, William
Summary: ""One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBIansiti, Marco
Summary: In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020