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The Term Sheet | Wattys 2016 Winner by LucasCarlson
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2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.
The Labyrinth: An Unknown Fairytale by KevenRosa
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And so the Journey Continues... Jake and Amethyst forgot about each other at the end, but they end up going to a library for a school project, and while they're in the library the see a big door behind the bookshelf, this door will be the last thing they would've wanted to encounter. They will go through a lot of situations that aren't pleasing or ideal for that matter. The will have to fight creatures, solve puzzles and meet a couple friends along the way, but only you will find out what happens next here In "The Labyrinth: A chronicle Project"
The Labyrinth by KevenRosa
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This is a story of two teens, who enter a world of imagination and mystery but the present time is frozen, and they have to find the key to unfreeze time or else the present time will stay in place forever. In their journey they will go through obstacles such as, Unnatural Beings and Supernatural activity as well as big and small mysterious creatures, and they will go through many places and have to solve puzzles and riddles in order to go to the next step closer to the key.