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Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age.

A mysterious new contagion is decimating the population. It starts in the lungs, like the flu, then moves to the bones, where it weakens and breaks them, eventually killing the host. The disease's origin, methods of propagation and means of contraction are all unknown. There is no vaccine, and none is expected, as the virus is protean and elusive. If it remains unchecked and mutates into a more virulent form, it will become an extinction level event.

"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career - working public relations for the dean - takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old, are unearthed on the campus. Out of the college’s dark past, these bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.

A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls tells of the thirty-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.

Night Navigation opens on a night of freezing rain in upstate New York - the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Del’s 37-year-old manic-depressive son, Mark, needs a ride, but she is afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed. Through the four seasons, Night Navigation takes us into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict - from break-your-arm dealers to boot-camp rehabs to Rumi quoting NA sponsors.

Bingham Foundation field investigator Samuel Todd discovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding the research being conducted by Dr. Telford Gordon Thorndecker, the head of the well-to-do senior care facility Crittenden Hall. Thorndecker is secretly breaking every law of God and man - and faces an ultimate decision. Lawrence Sanders at his suspenseful best.

World renowned neurosurgeon Jon Ritter is on the verge of a medical breakthrough that will change the world. His groundbreaking surgical treatment, using transplanted non-human stem cells, is set to eradicate the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease and give hope to millions. But when the procedure is slated for testing, it all comes to an abrupt and terrifying halt.

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is ravaged by mysterious ball lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. As the condition begins to take hold, he realizes the end result will eventually kill him, ruining his plans to run for Congress - as well as his marriage. He does find a few compensations: his new youth and vigor attract a Cuban refugee reporter and a young lady lawyer, and his libido has been magically restored. Then a reclusive billionaire snatches "EZ" to use him as a medical guinea pig.

The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel's title, which translates loosely as I thirst, echoes the Christ of St. John. Tengo Sed's protagonist, however, known only as Hovercraft because he is always around, always feeling on edge, is not a savior but a hapless resident with a tendency toward mysticism.

Brander, security chief of the Syrtis Base on Mars, has been forced to invoke Emergency Directive SB-17-5Z. Two men have died, victims of an unknown alien disease. The entire base is now isolated. No one can enter or leave under any circumstances. Dr. John Naysmith, newly arrived on Mars, is leading a small medical team in a desperate attempt to isolate the virus and discover a serum to combat it. But if the disease continues to spread and gets out of control, then Brander will have no alternative but to annihilate the base and everyone in it with nuclear bombs!

Una "comitiva di sopravvissuti": a dieci anni esatti dal suo trapianto di fegato, Francesco viene invitato a una rimpatriata cui interverranno cento trapiantati assieme alle rispettive famiglie. È titubante, non sa se partecipare, ma alla fine, trascinato per un orecchio dalla Mamma, sale con lei sul torpedone. Acciacchi, fobie, farmaci indispensabili e piccole miserie: i protagonisti di questa gita somigliano ciascuno a una maschera della commedia, dal timido al giullare, dallo sbruffone al pauroso. In comune hanno il fatto di essere nati due volte.

Lui è Luigi, un quarantenne equilibrato, sentimentale, sereno e innamorato della moglie incinta. La casualità di un banale esame medico lo pone di fronte a una tremenda rivelazione: ha un tumore al rene e bisogna intervenire con urgenza. Così, con il ricovero, la vita di Luigi cambia drasticamente e si reduce a un'unica semplice realtà: l'ospedale, il reparto, i compagni di stanza, infermiere e caposala, i medici e, fra questi, su tutti, la mitica presenza del professor Zamagna, genio della chirurgia urologica, che vive solo per operare e che a Luigi appare un salvatore.

Emma è una giovane donna e ha una vita normale - un compagno, Orlando, una mamma, Corradina, e un fratello, Rocco, che sente di dover proteggere da quando il padre è morto in un incidente sul lavoro. Tutto sembra crollare dal giorno in cui scopre di essere affetta da una malattia degenerativa, curabile solo con un trapianto di cellule staminali. Tra i possibili donatori emerge un profilo con una compatibilità elevatissima, ma sembra essere sparito nel nulla. Risultano solo un nome, un cognome e un vecchio indirizzo.

La crisi che ha investito l'Occidente è giunta alle sue estreme conseguenze e il mondo vive un difficile periodo di transizione, in cui il lavoro ha perso la sua centralità. In questo contesto l'ex biologo Edoardo Faschi, ossessionato dalla morte del fratello Alessio avvenuta vent'anni prima, si sottopone a un trattamento psicologico sperimentale ispirato alla scatola specchio di Ramachandran - un dispositivo utilizzato per curare la sindrome dell'arto fantasma nei pazienti mutilati - che promette di aiutarlo a elaborare la perdita.

Die junge Archäologin Nora Kelly ergreift bei ihrem Gang durch die verfallenen Räume eines halb zerstörten Ranchgebäudes eine merkwürdige Unruhe, nicht ohne Grund, denn urplötzlich wird sie von einem grässlichen Wesen angegriffen, halb Mensch, halb Tier, das von ihr die Herausgabe eines ominösen Briefes verlangt...

Der fünfte Geniestreich des Bestseller-Duos Vincent Kliesch & Sebastian Fitzek! Im 5. Thriller der AURIS-Reihe macht ein psychopathischer Kollege mit dem absoluten Gehör Jagd auf den forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel: Der Mann, der das Verbrechen hört, und die hartnäckige True-Crime-Podcasterin Jula Ansorge müssen ein weiteres Mal zusammenarbeiten. Niemand außer ihm kann sie hören: Im Zug nach Berlin nimmt der geniale forensische Phonetiker Matthias Hegel als einziger eine Kakophonie von Tönen wahr, die nur eines bedeuten kann.

Lebt der erste Unsterbliche längst unter uns? Forscher eines Schweizer Biotech-Startups verkünden eine Sensation: Sie haben den Unsterblichkeitscode geknackt. Doch der Proband ihrer Studie, dessen DNA über Nacht zum wertvollsten Objekt der Welt geworden ist, flieht aus einem ihrer Labore. Zurück bleiben zwei Leichen. Um ihn aufzuspüren, beauftragen die Behörden FBI-Genetiker Mason Brown und die dänische Interpol-Agentin Jonna Nielsen. Doch ihre Ermittlungen, die sie durch halb Europa führen, werden immer mysteriöser:

Sempre deixei muito claro para a minha esposa que ter um filho não estava nos meus planos. Todo o meu foco era gerir a empresa familiar e não havia tempo ou espaço para me dedicar a uma criança. Entretanto, ela passou por cima do que eu havia repetido diversas vezes e ficou grávida. Só que eu não poderia prever que Grace fosse morrer em um trágico acidente e me deixar com um recém-nascido prematuro.

Der neue Band der berührenden Reihe rund um Gut Mohlenberg von Bestsellerautorin Melanie Metzenthin. Endlich wieder Frieden auf Gut Mohlenberg – doch die Vergangenheit wirft ihre langen Schatten. Gut Mohlenberg, 1957: Friederike von Aalen führt das Gestüt wieder als psychiatrische Klinik. Als ihr Kollege Richard Hellmer sie um Hilfe bittet, reist sie mit ihrer Tochter Charlotte nach Hamburg. Es geht um Zwangssterilisationen im Dritten Reich – ein Unrecht, das Friederike heute noch nahegeht. Ausgerechnet Richards alter Widersacher Doktor Krüger bietet seine Unterstützung an.

Das hochspannende Finale der Evolution-Reihe! Was passiert, wenn der Mensch Gott spielt? Ella, Ben und Gabriel fliehen immer noch vor Nicolai und der Operation Darwin. Dabei werden sie mit der erschütternden Wahrheit konfrontiert: Die einzige Hoffnung auf Freiheit ist die gewagte Manipulation der menschlichen DNA. Dafür spielen die Zwillinge eine entscheidende Rolle, denn ihre Gene sind der Schlüssel zum Erfolg.