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Meet Fred, a large mixed-breed hound living with a cop. Fred pretends he’s a police dog, making up heroic tales to impress his next-door buddy, Bitz, a small, scruffy poodle owned by the Johnsons. So how can Fred admit he’s been faking it all this time when Bitz asks for his help? A newly-acquired cat named Fritz has run off, and if he doesn’t return, Bitz could be sent to the pound, thanks to those Johnson twins and their constant sibling rivalry.

Marc Gregorio si risveglia paralizzato. Non riesce più a percepire il proprio corpo. Incidente? Ictus? Un'overdose di tossina botulinica? La risposta, scoprirà poi, è molto, molto peggiore. Lui è soltanto una copia di Marc, un cervello digitale senza corpo, dotato di tutti i ricordi umani di Marc, ma senza alcun accesso ai piaceri sensuali degli esseri umani. NOTA: I lettori americani hanno assegnato a Mindclone 4.5 stelle su un massimo di 5. Puoi leggere le loro recensioni a questo link.

Vera’s marriage has been dead for years. So, when she reconnects with a childhood sweetheart, she seizes the chance to reignite her heart. But the comedy-of-errors affair she stumbles into leads to unspeakable consequences. Humiliation should have been punishment enough. But the arrival of “good news” is sending her straight to hell. Yet, in the end, she achieves a small but significant triumph.

Se vi svegliaste una mattina scoprendo di essere nuovamente il bambino che eravate, mantenendo tuttavia intatti tutti i vostri ricordi attuali? Se questo universo alternativo vi offrisse la possibilità di non ripetere più gli errori di cui vi siete poi pentiti? Di sfruttare le opportunità che avete mancato? Quali azioni potreste intraprendere per evitare tragedie a voi già note? Avendone la possibilità, che cosa decidereste di modificare nella vostra vita e nel mondo?

Un androide entra in chiesa e si scatena il pandemonio. Soprattutto quando chiede ad un giovane prete di potergli confessare i propri peccati, ricevere l’assoluzione ed infine il sacramento della comunione. Il giovane prete è disponibile a prendere in considerazione l’idea, ma il suo superiore reagisce indignato. Decidono allora (o forse qualcuno li spinge verso questa decisione) di organizzare un incontro con il vescovo e anche con un cardinale. A questa strana riunione si unisce l’inventore della tecnologia e, per non escludere nessuno, anche un rabbino.

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio - and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. And a power-mad military contractor will stop at nothing to control the technology for his own ends....

What if you woke up one morning and discovered that you were your preteen self, but with all your present memories intact? What if you had a chance to undo the many things you regretted? To act on those opportunities you missed? What tragedies would you act to prevent? Given the chance, what would you change about your life - and the world?

Insurance investigator Charlie Novak doesn't investigate murders. He commits them. But he didn't commit this one. The victim? Like all his previous victims, she was married to his partner. And insured by him. It's all part of their ongoing black widower scheme. Charlie stages fatal accidents nobody looks at twice. But this one has homicide cops crawling all over it. Charlie monitors the case for the insurance company, hoping to steer it away from the husband with the million dollar motive.

The leading candidate for US President is certain God has chosen him to bring on The Rapture by launching nuclear war. His march to the White House is unstoppable. Journalist Dan Jessup has finally unearthed the candidate’s virulent past, but if he reveals it, his pregnant wife and son, now being held hostage, will be murdered.

When Mom and Dad and their twelve-year-old twin boys headed over to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, they discovered that a roast turkey wasn’t the only cadaver awaiting them. It seems Great Aunt Thelma passed away even before sampling Aunt Susan’s crab dip. While the guests try to figure out how to deal with this situation, the twins’ comical irreverence and Mom’s weary exasperation lighten the mood.

Meet Darwin, the most famous chimpanzee in the world, thanks to the magic of genetic engineering. Darwin can read and write and play video games--although he prefers chess. He even "speaks," typing on a special voice-synthesizer strapped to his chest. He lives with his older human brother Scott and Scott's parents, and goes to Scott's school, where he's both popular and controversial. He's in 5th Grade.

Seventeen-year-old Margot McClain used to be witty, talented, and popular, but ever since a certain incident, she’s used her smart mouth like an insect-repellent to keep boys off her. That’s about to change.

The murderer has a perfectly logical reason for his kills. Logical, but insane. Wounded soul and single dad Nick Clayborne uses a radio scanner to listen in on private conversations. It’s virtually his only adult contact. He fills notebooks with what he hears in hopes of an eventual book deal. Then three of those strangers are murdered. Panicking, he reaches out to a long-time favorite he's been listening in on for years.

Welcome to Mordora. It's a dark place with secrets so powerful they trigger a double abduction and a murder. And so toxic that revealing the truth would be worse than the crimes themselves. It's a convoluted tale of murder, twisted love, simmering hate, a screwed-up abduction, and a cop who falls in love with the mom of the abducted boy, only to realize that revealing the person behind the kidnapping would destroy her. It begins with a murder that isn't a murder. Soon a double abduction brings the police into the case.

San Francisco ad-man Art Kassel has three seemingly unreachable life goals: to find some woman somewhere who shares his love for all things intellectual, cultural and culinary; to win accolades and awards for creativity in advertising; and to escape the iffy morality of his career by launching the big honking novel he’s been slogging away at forever. Imagine how thrilled he is when all his goals suddenly seem within his grasp. Especially when he comes up with a brilliant campaign for the ad agency’s most important account: Cloud Nine Toilet Paper.

A detective tracks down the lowlife who absconded with a small fortune. It was a case of obstructed justice.

A forlorn and slightly inebriated fellow takes it into his head to borrow a Trailways bus and head down to Texas to patch things up with his old girlfriend.