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Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger. Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancee—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . .

Die Optimierung des Menschen ist das Geschäft der Zukunft. Eine kalifornische Firma verkauft Blutplasma-Verjüngungskuren, Tech-Riesen investieren Unsummen in die digitale Bewusstseinsspeicherung. Und ein russisches Unternehmen verspricht durch die Konservierung des eigenen Leichnams ein Leben nach dem Tod. Währenddessen stirbt in Seattle ein obdachloser Junge an Herzversagen. Als der deutsche Chirurg Michael Wild beginnt, Fragen zu stellen, verschwindet er von der Bildfläche.

In Teaching Machines How to Cry, Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis explores the story of Alba, a young woman seeking answers for a feeling of longing she can’t explain, and M, an AI prototype. Alba was a child when she first spent time with M, until they were unexpectedly driven apart. As an adult, Alba slowly realises that M might hold the answers to her life-long yearning when she remembers that the last time she felt whole was as a child when she taught M how to cry.

Medical treatment determined by artificial intelligence could do more than make Hope Kestrel's career. It could revolutionize healthcare. What the Seattle surgeon doesn't know is the AI has a hidden fatal flaw, and the people covering it up will stop at nothing to dominate the world's healthcare—and its profits. Soon, Hope is made the scapegoat for a patient's death, and only Jacie Stone, a gifted intern with a knack for computer science, is willing to help search for the truth.

Hackers can steal your money, control your car, or access your private files. What if one had a grip on your beating heart? Whatever. Clint Masters has his own problems. A city lies in ruins because Clint couldn't stop a psychopath. With his company in chaos, only a bottle of scotch tempers his misery. While his fiancé Beth wearies of his spiraling self-destruction, Clint seems unconcerned that his despondence will cost others their lives.

I can’t believe it when I learn my donor’s identity. The attack on Flora was all over the news. From my hospital bed I read every article, obsess over every word and soon I feel like I know her: the beautiful girl with flame-colored hair, adored by everyone around her. Why would anyone hurt someone so perfect? When Flora’s family reach out to me, I’m unsure. My hands are shaking as I arrive at their grand mansion with its golden stone and sprawling gardens, but they’re warm and welcoming, tears shining in her mother’s eyes as she smiles at me.

Michael, now a psychologist, has a past that’s catching up with him at the same time an unsatisfied patient is planning his revenge. Justin, now practicing from his home office, has a patient consumed by the fear of death—a young man scared of just about everything—including fear itself. As both father and son deal with their patients’ problems and own internal challenges, they also struggle daily with Mandy’s health issue, a potentially deadly illness that threatens to take away the most important woman in their lives.

Following a control breach at a top-secret facility, a weapons grade biological pathogen, YPP-234, escapes and quickly spirals out of control. It is deadly, it is fast, and it goes unnoticed until it is too late. YPP-234 isn’t just a manmade biological weapon, it is a manmade extinction level event. Now it is out.

Eine dramatische Häufung unerklärlicher Nebenwirkungen ruft die WHO-Expertin Dr. Laura Delille auf den Plan. Unfruchtbarkeit, Fehlgeburten und Tod greifen um sich. Erste Spuren führen zu einem neuartigen genbasierten Impfstoff. Doch als sich die Symptome weiter verschlimmern und auch Menschen erkranken, die nie damit geimpft wurden, wird klar: Hier geht es um mehr als krasse Nebenwirkungen. Während Laura den rätselhaften Ursachen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent nachspürt, heftet sich der Reporter Hugh Stevens an ihre Fersen.

Sharon Stevenson is a forensic psychiatrist. Her job is to decide whether a patient is of sound enough mind to stand trial, not whether they did or didn’t commit a crime. But Sharon is also a mother grieving the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter, Maddie, who has never been found. And what if the man sitting before her, who has been charged with the murders of several women, also claimed the life of her sweet girl? It’s time to find out the truth.

Anna Ogilvy hasn’t opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She’d committed the crime of the century – but nothing and no-one could wake her from the nightmare. Believers in her innocence call her Anna O. Believers in her guilt call her Sleeping Beauty.

Dr. Dean Graves, M.E. is asked to help the Atlanta Health Department investigate a respiratory illness that’s infecting—and killing—mostly young, healthy individuals. The victims of the deadly disease seem to be random, with no traceable source for the exposure. As the illness with a 100% mortality rate spreads across Georgia, including Augusta where Dr. Graves lives and works, he starts to question whether this could be an act of bioterrorism.

Neither is his young assistant, Abigail Platford, immune to Dr. Rome's persuasive charm. Abigail once dreamed of becoming a doctor, though of a much different sort. That dream ended with her father's tragic death from a medical error for which she holds herself responsible. But Dr. Rome, who proudly displays his medical degree from Johns Hopkins, seems to believe in her. If he were willing to act as her mentor, might there still be a chance to fulfill her dream of someday becoming a doctor serving New York City's poor?

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:

Admitted to a remote psychiatric hospital, Sadie, a troubled teen and self-diagnosed psychic, believes she doesn’t need to be institutionalized. Not that it stops the medical staff from keeping her locked up under careful watch. As Sadie navigates the confines of her new surroundings, intense therapy sessions with a doctor she doesn’t trust, new medications, and the erratic personalities of the other residents, her special abilities begin to unveil a disturbing truth.

Three years after an incurable virus spread and turned a majority of the population into mindless and cannibalistic creatures, the world is a barren place. Society is broken, and most who remain have banded together in small camps and communities. Jon South is not like most other survivors. After losing his wife and son nearly two years into the pandemic, Jon now wanders the country roads and woods of rural Tennessee, a vigilante taking his revenge out on the undead monsters that took his family from him.

The second wave of the Siberian Flu catches the country completely unprepared. Instead of killing the old and frail, the young and healthy are dropping . . . in hours, not days. Kate, a new doctor, will sacrifice everything to break her and her sister free from a controlling stepfather and a dead-end small town existence. Moments from landing the critical job she needs, St. Louis falls apart around her.

Vor 15 Jahren: Eine unheimliche Entführungsserie erschüttert Husum. Mehrere Mädchen verschwinden, von den Opfern oder einem Täter fehlt jede Spur. Von einem auf den anderen Tag hören die Entführungen schließlich auf. Die ungeklärten Fälle lassen die Einwohner der nordfriesischen Stadt traumatisiert zurück. Gegenwart: Jahre später kehrt der Horror nach Husum zurück. Wieder verschwinden mehrere Mädchen und diesmal soll Kriminalkommissar Falk Bendinger den Täter finden. Zeitgleich wird ein Mann auf der wenige Kilometer entfernten Hallig Nordfall erstochen.

Both sisters are trapped. Kate fights to escape a city with closing borders as the leaders desperately try to contain the outbreak. Betrayed by family and embroiled in the chaos of an organized crime syndicate, Alisa struggles to get out before she breaks under the unbearable strain. Even if she escapes, Kate still faces miles of lawless country with dangers even worse than the virus. Back home, Alisa can’t turn her back on the other trapped victims and is determined to find a way to save them all.

Bestselling author Randy Moon crafts psychological thrillers that probe the darkest corners of the human psyche. His works—including his latest release Questionable Practice and the acclaimed novels Jacqueline Willoughby, Raina, and Francis Laurent (written under the pen name Schuyler Randall)—have earned him widespread recognition, including the ABR Award for Best Thriller (2021) and Best Medical Thriller (2024).