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From the "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced spine chiller about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as we know it. “Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game.” –#1 NYT...

A full-cast recording featuring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey An unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internationally...

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.

When Dr. Hannah Sparks receives an emergency call in the middle of the night, she’s prepared to save a life—but not to confront her husband’s mistress on the operating table. As betrayal cuts deeper than any scalpel, Hannah must balance the duty of her profession with the wreckage of her personal life. Trapped between a crumbling marriage and public scandal, she’s forced to operate on the very woman who shattered her world. With secrets unraveling and emotions flaring, Hannah faces an impossible choice: heal the broken or break free herself.

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.

Stage of Fools is the centerpiece of the Thomas Mariner Neurotechnology Trilogy. It is a tale told from a San Francisco intensive care unit, by billionaire Steven Levinson, a patient who has fallen into a coma, who must take captive time to reexamine and learn from the suppressed events of his life, so that he might reawaken healed and save the family he has set at the brink of destruction by his jealousy, vanity, and recklessness. If there's still time for this modern King Lear.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Like other large cities, Miami, known for its beautiful beaches, night life, and cuisine, suffers from an ugly undercurrent of violence. AJ Docker is forced to face off with that subculture when a gang invades the emergency room and brutally murders one of his patients in front of him and threatens Doc himself. After he surmises that a woman and her young son may be next on the hit list, he and Banshee, his well-trained service dog, embark on a search for the killers to protect the innocent woman and child.

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

My life has been shaped by some kind of underworld scheming I don’t really understand. Or maybe I don’t want to know. But now I’m living in darkness and violence, unable to break free but unwilling to succumb to the drug induced stupor my captives force on me. Then Gunnar, a fierce man with a dark relentlessness, charges to my rescue like a black knight, taking vengeance on those who have hurt me. Our first meeting isn’t a rescue out of a fairy tale -- it’s pure chaos. Gunnar may be an ex-con, but he protects me with a ferocity I never knew existed.

He’s my patient. The legend I’m supposed to heal. And the one man I’m not allowed to want. I’m a surgeon. Rules and control are what keep me steady. But Derek Callahan is anything but steady. He’s chaos in cleats and my biggest mistake waiting to happen. He’s supposed to be recovering. I’m supposed to keep my distance. Instead, I’m watching the man who once owned the football field fight his way back…and fight me every step of the way. He tests my limits and my patience. Every smug grin, every cocky wink, every inch of six-foot-two confidence he struts around with. But ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist...

". . . a town so real you'll be looking for it on the map, characters so endearing you'll think of them as friends, and struggles so compelling and genuine that you'll identify with each one. . ." DEBORAH RANEY Dr. Grant Sheldon's move to Dogwood Springs wasn't the panacea for a fresh start he'd hoped for when he brought his children here. But with Christmas approaching he finds the chance of a new and lasting love hovering just beyond reach. Then the past comes crashing back. In addition to taking on more shifts in the ER, Lauren McCaffrey agrees to stay with Grant Sheldon's twin teenagers...

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and...

A new drug promises to cure schizophrenia. The results seem miraculous - until Teensy Campbell suffers cardiac arrest on the psychiatric ward. Why did it happen? Why is she covered in sores? Is the lead investigator truly trying to eliminate a scourge, or is he more interested in creating one? Join Dr. Donovan Kincaid and his psychologist wife Amelia as they diagnose diseases beneath diseases, and unravel conspiracies inside conspiracies. The clock is ticking, as a problem limited to a single floor in a single hospital becomes everyone's problem, everywhere.

Grace Ward's sterile existence is thrown into chaos when a baby is abandoned in her ER. From the instant a strange woman thrusts the infant into her arms and disappears, Grace's life is transformed. She names the baby Johnny. His identity is shrouded in secrecy, and even with a trained staff treating him, his life hangs in the balance. As Grace grows more devoted to him, major events threaten their bond and his life.

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.

Don’t miss the next Will Trent thriller, This Is Why We Lied, coming this August! Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara...