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When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development?

Fletcher Security Systems has become one of the largest firms of its type in the world. Luke has mastered how to protect everyone else at all costs without dealing with his own demons. Or so he thinks.

When Hannah Walker rolls into her new town on fumes, she doesn't expect her past to catch up to her so quickly. But the moment her card is declined for a lousy cup of coffee, she realizes nowhere is safe, and her life on the run has just gotten more complex. Luke Fletcher has made it his mission in life to protect. When he meets Hannah Walker, she makes it clear that his services aren't needed and neither is he, but there's something in her eyes that tells another story.

One hundred and twelve years after the fall, the Republic of Texas is built on two foundations: total freedom and total responsibility. A law broken means a strike against the lawbreaker. Five strikes means execution. The only hope for the law breaker is to escape Texas - to go Striker - before justice comes for them.

The 1960s were full of hippies, hitchhiking, drugs, and war. Carson Chance, a 24-year-old Vietnam War veteran, returns home to Dallas without a college degree and with an injured leg. By chance, he is offered a position at a small private investigating company.

Depression and mental illness don't discriminate. Even in the most picture-perfect life, confusion and turmoil are often lurking beneath the surface. For a teenager in a world where anxiety, depression, and other mental illnesses are commonplace, life can sometimes feel impossible. Whether or not you or someone you love is suffering from any of these issues, it's important to be able to recognize the warning signs of mental illness and know where to turn for help.

Nineteen-year-old Marcus Allen Paden was high on methamphetamine as he wandered aimlessly through a San Jose residential neighborhood on a sunny autumn morning, prowling through yards and testing back doors. Eventually, one clicked open.

Anita is waiting for Adam to be released from prison. They met 20 years ago at a New Year's Eve party in Paris, a city where they both felt out of place - he as a recent arrival from the provinces, and she as an immigrant from the island of Mauritius. They quickly fell in love, married, and moved to a village in southwestern France, to live on the shores of the Atlantic with their little girl, Laura. Over time, the monotony of daily life begins to erode the bonds of their marriage.

The first digital collection of true crime tales from Reader's Digest, featuring the most gripping thrillers and mind-blowing mysteries from its digitized archives.

Cindy Couyoumjian—founder of Cinergy Financial, with over 36 years of experience—is on a mission to empower women to stop being spectators and enter the financial arena, to stand up and assert their inalienable right to financial self-determination. In The Rise of Women and Wealth, Cindy shows that by confronting America’s patriarchal past, women can find the courage, strength, and inspiration to move forward. Cindy’s message is a hopeful one, filled with intuitive truths about a brighter tomorrow for women and their financial power and freedom.

The second book in The Last Days series by Julie A. Brown. Kate Roland is a Private in the U.S. Army and is paired with her longtime friend to fight the undead during the zombie apocalypse 2013. The task becomes more complex when they find Angel, a sweet little girl who was abandoned in the midst of the undead. Join Kate in her journey to protect the innocent child.

In All the Difference, Susan MacKenty Brady, Stuart D. Kliman, and Leslie C. Smith reveal that leaders must shift their view: Difference is not just noise to tolerate—it's the raw material for creating value. It's true, they argue, that when difference isn't understood or acknowledged, it breeds disconnection, draining performance and potential. What's needed is a leadership strategy for turning human difference into your organization's greatest strength.

Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation? Digital native Alicia Eler's The Selfie Generation is the first book to delve fully into this ubiquitous and much-maligned part of social media, including why people take them in the first place and the ways they can change how we see ourselves.

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways. This groundbreaking book explains the transformations that have taken place in the workplace over the past several decades and how those transformations have combined to produce a dramatically different career landscape.

Jillian and Evan are trapped in the midst of a Zombie Apocalypse and Evan is ill. Jillian recalls the events that have led to their demise as well as documenting the stages of infection until the transformation is complete. She has taken on the burden of ending both of their lives. What will become of Jillian?

t was Isla Everley's wedding day, a moment in time that should have been the happiest in her life...until it ended in murder. When two women with no apparent connection are found dead at the same wedding, medical examiner Reagan Davenport will stop at nothing to discover the identity of the killer...even if it means untangling a deadly web of lies she'll live to regret.

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark.

This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate.

This is Mary Lasker's story. Americans now recognize the National Institutes of Health as the national treasure that it is, but when she began her crusade, her first challenge was persuading elected leaders and federal officials that the health of the American public was even their problem. Armed with the knowledge she was right, and supported by her husband, the famed ad man Albert Lasker, and close friend Florence Mahoney, she built a coalition of noted physicians and scientists that fundamentally changed how we think about medical research funding.

Every other weekend, Hope and Eden - backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand - wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It's the divorce shuffle; they're used to it. Only this weekend, he's screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile.