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This fast-paced novel takes the world to the brink of destruction when fundamentalist Islamic terrorists acquire nuclear materials, threatening global security and stability.

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman.

Solving a cold case is extremely difficult and many are left unresolved. In this book, retired NCIS Special Agent Joe Kennedy details the methodology he created to solve cold case murders.

A landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote’s life’s work in the form he called his “great love,” The Complete Stories confirms Capote’s status as a master of the short story.

Short fiction examining the mysteries of human character, from a New York Times–bestselling author acclaimed as “among the best in American literature” (Kirkus Reviews).

Addiction: What's Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success.

The stories collected in Bear and His Daughter span nearly thirty years - 1969 to the present - and they explore, acutely and powerfully, the humanity that unites us.

Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia.

"Excellent...Tucker's chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating." -The Economist.

Essence and emblem of life—feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times—human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commer

In this true story—a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights—Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.

A new collection from a poet of "wily verve" whose work is "filled with more satire and jeopardy than anything going today" (Terrance Hayes).

Precise, taut, minimalist poems are Toliver's Yellow Wallpaper — using the thud and drone of language to evoke the suffocation of a marriage gone sour, sound bouncing back, and creating patter

An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for readers along the way.

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to thei