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Lock(s) may refer to: Common meanings Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Arts and entertainment Lock (film), a 2016 Indian Punjabi-language film Lock (Saga of the Skolian Empire), a sentient machine in the novels by Catherine Asaro Lock (waltz), a dance figure Locked (miniseries), Indian web miniseries The Lock (Constable), an 1824 painting by John Constable The Lock (Fragonard) or The Bolt, a 1777 painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard Locks (album), by Garnet Crow, 2008 Locked (miniseries), an Indian crime thriller miniseries Fictional characters Lock, from The Nightmare Before Christmas Lock, from Go! Princess PreCure People Lock (surname) Ormer Locklear (1891–1920), American stunt pilot and film actor nicknamed "Lock" George Locks (1889–1965), English cricketer Lock Martin (1916–1959), stage name of American actor Joseph Lockard Martin, Jr. Places Lock, Ohio, an unincorporated community in the United States Lock, South Australia, a small town in the center of the Eyre Peninsula Lock Island, an island in the River Thames in England Lock Island (Nunavut), an island Peel Sound in Nunavut, Canada Sports Lock (rugby league), a player position in rugby league, known as loose forward in the United Kingdom Lock (rugby union), a player position in rugby union Lock, any of several grappling holds in wrestling, judo and other martial arts Technology Computing Lock (computer science), a bookkeeping object used to serialize concurrent access Lock (database), a feature used when multiple users access a database concurrently File locking, describes a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file SIM lock, a restriction on mobile phones to work only in certain countries or with certain providers Other technologies Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance Lock (firearm), the ignition mechanism of small arms Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Lock (weapons guidance), missile navigation system's target acquisition fix Fermentation lock, a device in beer and wine making that allows carbon dioxide to escape while not allowing air to enter Rope lock, a device used in theater fly systems Airlock, a compartment for transfer between environments with different atmospheres Other uses Lock of hair, a piece of hair Dreadlocks, or locks, rope-like strands of hair formed by locking or braiding See also All pages with titles beginning with Lock All pages with titles containing Lock Loc (disambiguation) Lok (disambiguation) -lock, an Old English suffix Loch, a Gaelic term used in Scotland to describe lakes and other bodies of water Lock and Key (disambiguation) Locke (disambiguation), a common English surname and place name Locker (disambiguation) Locking (disambiguation) LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), a peer-to-peer network Lox, cured salmon filet Unlock (disambiguation). Discover the John Lock popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Lock books.

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  • Safe People synopsis, comments

    Safe People

    Henry Cloud & John Townsend

    Safe People will help you discover why good people can get tangled in bad relationships, how to avoid repeating your own mistakes, and how to pick safe, healthy people for the frie...

  • Lethal Credentials synopsis, comments

    Lethal Credentials

    John Lock

    Kane Rhodes and Brian Jones, having recently left the services of MI6, have set up a private closeprotection company, partly funded by their former bosses in the Secret Intelligenc...

  • Surrender Is Not an Option synopsis, comments

    Surrender Is Not an Option

    John Bolton

    With noholdsbarred candor, Donald Trump's new National Security Adviser and former ambassador to the United Nations takes us behind the scenes at the UN and the US State Department...

  • The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings synopsis, comments

    The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

    Alexander Pope & Leo Damrosch

    Alexander Pope (16881744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its en...

  • Surveillance and Surveillance Detection synopsis, comments

    Surveillance and Surveillance Detection

    John Kiriakou

    Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow or observe someone and not be seen?In the world of espionage, surveillance and surveillance...

  • U.S. Army Intelligence and Interrogation Handbook synopsis, comments

    U.S. Army Intelligence and Interrogation Handbook

    U.S. Department of the Army

    The U.S. Army Intelligence and Interrogation Handbook provides doctrinal guidance, techniques, and procedures governing the use of interrogators as human intelligence collection ag...

  • Dirty Tricks synopsis, comments

    Dirty Tricks

    Shane O'Sullivan

    The victory of Richard Nixon in the US presidential election of 1968 swung on an “October Surprise” a treasonous plot engineered by key figures in the Republican Party to keep the ...

  • Wild Awakening synopsis, comments

    Wild Awakening

    Greg J. Matthews

    In this “powerful story about the healing every man needs” (John Eldredge, New York Times bestselling author), a nearfatal attack by an enraged grizzly bear leads to an unexpected ...

  • The Lion synopsis, comments

    The Lion

    Nelson DeMille

    In this eagerly awaited followup to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the AntiTerrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for ...

  • Operation Shakespeare synopsis, comments

    Operation Shakespeare

    John Shiffman

    A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: “An impressive and important work…The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the grav...

  • Lessons in Disaster synopsis, comments

    Lessons in Disaster

    Gordon M. Goldstein

    A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war's architects"I had a part in a great fai...

  • Unlocked synopsis, comments

    Unlocked

    John Scalzi

    Discover the history of Haden's Syndrome, the virus that created the world of John Scalzi's inventive nearfuture thrillers Lock In and Head On, in the prequel novella Unlocked.Not ...

  • There Is Nothing for You Here synopsis, comments

    There Is Nothing for You Here

    Fiona Hill

    "This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.”Timothy Snyder, New York ...

  • The Book of Evidence synopsis, comments

    The Book of Evidence

    John Banville

    MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST  From the Booker Prize winner of The Sea comes “an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell" (The New York Time...

  • The Gospel According to the Apostles synopsis, comments

    The Gospel According to the Apostles

    John F. MacArthur

    The apostles understood the Gospel as they learned from and personally lived alongside Jesus, and these lessons became the heart of their message to an unsaved world. But what...

  • War by Other Means synopsis, comments

    War by Other Means

    Keith Kellogg

    General Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made th...

  • Tales from the New Jersey Devils Locker Room synopsis, comments

    Tales from the New Jersey Devils Locker Room

    Glenn "Chico" Resch & Mike Kerwick

    From the moment Dr. John McMullen brought professional hockey to New Jersey to the moment Scott Stevens lifted the Stanley Cup over his head for the third time, the Garden State ha...

  • Racing for the Bomb synopsis, comments

    Racing for the Bomb

    Robert S. Norris

    In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of milit...

  • Unwanted Spy synopsis, comments

    Unwanted Spy

    Jeffrey Sterling

    The powerful story of a CIA whistleblower and political prisoner who refused to give up on his American dreamIn 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violati...

  • The Secret Life of John le Carre synopsis, comments

    The Secret Life of John le Carre

    Adam Sisman

    Named a Best Biography Book for 2023The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive.Secrecy came naturally to Joh...

  • The Life Principles Study Series synopsis, comments

    The Life Principles Study Series

    Charles F. Stanley

    Revised and updated, Dr. Charles Stanley's wellloved Life Principles study guide series has taken on new life through refreshed content. Small groups and individuals who want a...

  • Framed synopsis, comments

    Framed

    Ronnie O'Sullivan

    Fast paced and full of grit, this is the first crime novel from the UK's most charismatic sporting genius.WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE.An innocent man. Frankie...

  • Red Moon Rising synopsis, comments

    Red Moon Rising

    Matthew Brzezinski

    For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behindthescenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into spaceThe spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushc...

  • The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader synopsis, comments

    The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

    John C. Maxwell

    Leaders are always looking for an edge. That often sends many of them looking for the next big thing. Although leadership approaches and trendy management fads come and go, what re...

  • The Anatomy of a Spy synopsis, comments

    The Anatomy of a Spy

    Michael Smith

    For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional onesboth Ben Macintyre and John le Carréthe story of why spies spy.   Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intellige...

  • Rogue Justice synopsis, comments

    Rogue Justice

    Karen J. Greenberg

    The definitive account of how America’s War on Terror sparked a decadelong assault on the rule of law, weakening our courts and our Constitution in the name of national security.Th...

  • The Murder of Marilyn Monroe synopsis, comments

    The Murder of Marilyn Monroe

    Jay Margolis & Richard Buskin

    A New York Times Best Seller!Since Marilyn Monroe died among suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962, there have been queries and theories, allegations and investig...

  • Blowback synopsis, comments

    Blowback

    Miles Taylor

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author behind the “eyepopping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting...

  • 50 Guns That Changed the World synopsis, comments

    50 Guns That Changed the World

    Robert A. Sadowski

    Discover how fifty great firearms influenced and helped shape our world.World history has always been interwoven with developments in firearms technology and so is peppered with le...

  • The CIA Lockpicking Manual synopsis, comments

    The CIA Lockpicking Manual

    Central Intelligence Agency

    Do you have the locksmith’s phone number on speed dial? Find yourself spending a fortune on new locks after someone lost their keys again? Forgot your keys in the car one too many ...

  • Stark synopsis, comments

    Stark

    Ben Elton

    Stark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.Deep in Western Australia wher...

  • The Power Couple synopsis, comments

    The Power Couple

    Alex Berenson

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep.Rebecca and Brian...

  • How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid synopsis, comments

    How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid

    John Kiriakou

    With an experienced CIA officer as your teacher, you’ll gain the knowledge and necessary tools to protect yourself and the ones you love.No matter where we go, we leave tracks and ...

  • Tales from the Philadelphia 76ers Locker Room synopsis, comments

    Tales from the Philadelphia 76ers Locker Room

    Gordon Jones, Pat Williams & Billy Cunningham

    The Sixers won 65 games and an NBA championship in 1982–83, still one of the finest seasons in NBA history. It was Moses Malone who, in the days before the playoffs, gave the team ...

  • Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton synopsis, comments

    Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton

    T. M. Hoy

    Prison is harsh enough, but as a foreigner (“farang”) in a strange land, jail time is an even more horrifying reality. Rotting in the Bangkok Hilton is a collection of short storie...

  • Wild Fire synopsis, comments

    Wild Fire

    Nelson DeMille

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an alltooplausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb i...

  • The First Family Detail synopsis, comments

    The First Family Detail

    Ronald Kessler

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”Slate As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for...

  • The Serpent Under synopsis, comments

    The Serpent Under

    Bonnie MacBird

    Holmes and Watson face treachery and danger in the latest fulllength thriller by Bonnie MacBird, author of the bestselling Sherlock Holmes novel Art in the Blood.Murder, jealousy, ...

  • Incredible Baseball Stories synopsis, comments

    Incredible Baseball Stories

    Ken Samelson

    The works in Incredible Baseball Stories cover the full span of baseball’s rich history. Fans of all ages will enjoy recalling the great and notsogreat moments of the most popular ...

  • Lock In synopsis, comments

    Lock In

    John Scalzi

    A blazingly inventive nearfuture thriller from the bestselling, Hugo Awardwinning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe...

  • The Mind of War synopsis, comments

    The Mind of War

    Grant Hammond

    The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A firstrate fighter pilot and a selftaught scholar, he wrote the first manual on...