“Holmes, Marple & Poe”
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Fiction: “Holmes, Marple, & Poe” by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe open a private investigating company together and their daring methodology and news-making solved cases would make their last-namesakes proud and attract the attention of an NYPD detective.
Nonfiction: “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma” by Mustafa Suleyman
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In “The Coming Wave,” Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order.
Youth: “A Place for Vanishing” by Ann Fraistat
Looking for a fresh start, 16-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother’s childhood home only to discover that the house’s strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.
