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Trina Ann Pion’s Manic Wars tells the story of Christina Wars, a single mother in the midst of a manic bipolar episode. While in and out of the mental hospital, Christina finds herself getting sicker and losing touch with reality until psychosis takes over her whole life and she is arrested for the most bizarre crime.

En una lúgubre ciudad de Europa del Este, que cubren al ocaso las brumas del río y enfrían las nieves nocturnas, un joven médico y su viejo mentor capturan a un vagabundo de porte monumental. Lo retienen en un sótano donde, ayudados por una sumisa asistente, han montado su laboratorio. Acorazado en un espléndido guardapolvo, el aspirante a galeno emprende su viril empresa sacrificial en favor de la ciencia.

Eine grausame Mordserie und nur eine Psychologie-Professorin kann das Rätsel entschlüsseln... Der hochspannende und packende Thriller von Matthias Ernst. London: Ein Serienkiller tötet und verstümmelt junge Frauen. Die Polizistin Olivia Jenner ist überzeugt davon, dass es sich bei dem Täter um den Putney-Slasher handelt, der sieben Jahre zuvor mehrere Frauen auf die gleiche Weise ermordete. Das Problem: Der Hauptverdächtige wurde damals angeschossen und ist seitdem bei vollem Bewusstsein in einem gelähmten Körper gefangen.

Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs, and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever....

The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labours, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.

English countryside, 1958. The idyllic village of Olney has stood in its peaceful location for over 900 years. Until one day, when two teenage boys are struck by a mysterious illness. The newly arrived Doctor Hilary Newton suspects a common flu to be the cause of their malady. Before long, the doctor and residents of Olney are plunged into a nightmare, as the disease ravages the local population. Despite the doctors employing the latest medicine available, the death toll keeps rising.

Dr. Erica Rosen’s world is turned upside down after a bomber explodes amidst a large crowd entering Oracle Park baseball stadium near her San Francisco home. Many are killed or injured, and police have no leads in solving the case.

1934 beginnt die junge Evelyn Prentis im Krankenhaus von Nottingham ihre Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester. Weniger weil es ihr Traum ist, sondern vielmehr auf Drängen ihrer Mutter, die ihre Tochter versorgt wissen möchte. Schon bald lernt Evelyn den rauen und harten Krankenhausalltag kennen. Sie muss kochen, putzen, waschen und dabei stets die strenge Hierarchie der Schwestern beachten. Doch zwischen all der Arbeit, der Schikane und den vielen traurigen Schicksalen, erlebt Evelyn auch immer wieder Momente der Hoffnung und des Glücks...

When is an audiobook about sex not about sex? In Tom Bleakley and Marcia Lange’s novel, the puzzling question is asked: What is the real cause of AIDS? This question meets the very definition of “conundrum.”

FBI Medical Examiner Dr. Jessica Coran's talents have been requested in Philadelphia in the wake of a series of bizarre murders attributed to a maniac called The Poet. His calling card is a scroll of human parchment engraved with toxic verse.

A troubled man is sentenced to therapy with a doctor who won't let him give up on himself.

I wrote this novel in 1995, when medical genetics was starting to bloom. It was the beginning of gene identification to discover the causes of many inherited diseases. Prior to that time, there was no genetic research development to help doctors choose the appropriate drug to treat a particular disease.

A desperate plea from a Cuban transplant surgeon puts Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen in serious danger with the Cuban government on the same day the four most prominent immunologists in the world—doctors who were on the verge of solving the huge rejection issues that have plagued the transplant community for more than 50 years—are killed in a car accident in Chicago.

The Theory of Irv provides a suspenseful journey through not just the storyline of the book’s plot, but an overview of American health policy. How it came to be a hundred years ago. How it has adapted in the last several decades. Perhaps more importantly, how we can fix it so we can have better health and health care for all Americans into the future.

Reich unterdrückt arm. In Saint-Tropez beobachtet ein Passant, wie ein Clochard brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Wenig später wird ein Zweiter ermordet aufgefunden. Wer hat es auf die hilflosen Bettler abgesehen? Gibt es etwa einen politischen Hintergrund? Commissaire Lucie Girard gerät innerhalb der Polizei massiv unter Druck. Sie folgt ihrem Gewissen und ermittelt in Kreisen, die ihr äußerst gefährlich werden können.

Doctor Maxwell Thornton, brilliant ex-surgeon and man most likely to insult you without even trying, seems to have an unwanted penchant for landing in the middle of murder cases. Since moving from the bustling metropolis of LA to a small town in Texas, Maxwell has struggled to fit in with the eccentric citizens of Rainy Dale. He’s made tiny steps forward, but the only person who truly seems to understand him is Sheriff Royce Callum.

When victims of a serial killer are found dead by injection of a new pharmaceutical, Morgan Stark, a brilliant doctor turned FBI agent, is summoned. With an abundance of theories as to the motive and murder, Morgan may be the only one who can wade through the medical possibilities to enter this killer’s mind. But will he be too late?

Severely injured and left for dead in Afghanistan after a routine reconnaissance mission went disastrously wrong, Marine Sergeant Nathan Profit endured two years of unimaginable hell at the hands of his insurgent captors. Nathan returns to the United States a very different man. Angry and hostile at losing everything in his life during his captivity, he begins to plot his revenge against the armed forces and country that abandoned him.

Wien, 1908: Die Stadt erlebt eine sagenhafte Blütezeit von Kunst und Wissenschaft. Doch davon bekommt die schüchterne Jungärztin Fanny Goldmann nur wenig mit, verbringt sie doch am liebsten ihre Zeit mit den Leichen in der gerichtlichen Medizin. Meist spielt sie dort nur die Handlangerin für ihre männlichen Kollegen. Als aber ein toter Obdachloser eingeliefert wird, führt Fanny nachts heimlich eine Obduktion durch und stellt fest, dass es sich um einen gesuchten Meisterdieb, den Sküs, handelt. Fanny beschließt, mehr über den Mord herauszufinden.

What would it feel like to be young again when you turn 60? Six members of the Vicious Circle, are returned to their physical prime with a gene therapy that will leave them young and beautiful for a century. They must negotiate the trials of love, relationships, and parenting in their renewed selves, all while hiding from the terrible truth about the cost of their new lives.