Miracle Cure: A Novel

Miracle Cure: A Novel

  • ASIN: B004G60FUE
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Fantastic Voyage: A Novel

Fantastic Voyage: A Novel

A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man!Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes’ body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery.Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium.Their objective . . . to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake . . . the fate of the entire world.

  • ASIN: 0553275720
  • ISBN: 0553275720
  • Brand: Asimov, Isaac
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

The Californios: A Novel

The Californios: A Novel

  • ASIN: B000FC2MBI
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science

The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science

Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers in the wrong direction--and nearly allowed a murderer to go unpunished.On July 28, 1971, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby named Noah Hoyt died in his trailer home in a rural hamlet of upstate New York. He was the fifth child of Waneta and Tim Hoyt to die suddenly in the space of seven years. People certainly talked, but Waneta spoke vaguely of "crib death," and over time the talk faded.Nearly two decades later a district attorney in Syracuse, New York, was alerted to a landmark paper in the literature on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome--SIDS--that had been published in a prestigious medical journal back in 1972. Written by a prominent researcher at a Syracuse medical center, the article described a family in which five children had died suddenly without explanation. The D.A. was convinced that something about this account was very wrong. An intensive quest by a team of investigators came to a climax in the spring of 1995, in a dramatic multiple-murder trial that made headlines nationwide.But this book is not only a vivid account of infanticide revealed; it is also a riveting medical detective story. That journal article had legitimized the deaths of the last two babies by theorizing a cause for the mystery of SIDS, suggesting it could be predicted and prevented, and fostering the presumption that SIDS runs in families. More than two decades of multimillion-dollar studies have failed to confirm any of these widely accepted premises. How all this happened--could have happened--is a compelling story of high-stakes medical research in action. And the enigma of familial SIDS has given rise to a special and terrible irony. There is today a maxim in forensic pathology: One un... [Read More]

  • ASIN: 0553379771
  • ISBN: 0553379771
  • Brand: Brand: Bantam
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Fatal: A Novel

Fatal: A Novel

  • ASIN: B000FBJCMQ
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Silent Treatment: A Novel

Silent Treatment: A Novel

  • ASIN: B004G5ZYHY
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

The Sisterhood: A Novel

The Sisterhood: A Novel

  • ASIN: B004G60EJG
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Doctors: A Novel

Doctors: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962.  His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors—what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love.  From the crucible of med school’s merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs—and sometimes tragedies—beyond, Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire.  At the novel’s heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love—until their friendship ripens into passion.  Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors—heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real—is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.

  • ASIN: 0553278118
  • ISBN: 9780553278118
  • Brand: Segal, Erich
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Extreme Measures: A Novel

Extreme Measures: A Novel

  • ASIN: B004G8P6YW
  • Manufacturer: Bantam

Passage: A Novel

Passage: A Novel

A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable.Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can.A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Joanna’s first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined — so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why that place is so hauntingly familiar.But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid.Yet just when Joanna thinks she understands, she’s in for the biggest surprise of all — ashattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic page.

  • ASIN: 0553580515
  • ISBN: 0553580515
  • Manufacturer: Bantam