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So what if your medical skills are the best in the world? If you can’t live past 20, your just a lousy show off. Let’s watch as the perverse ghost doctor make a name for himself by defeating the world’s greatest medical giants in his efforts to revitalize Chinese medicine.

Eine Entdeckung, die die Menschheit verändert. Eine Verschwörung, die sie auslöschen könnte. Als die brillante Quantenphysikerin Allie Keane einen revolutionären Durchbruch erzielt, ahnt sie noch nicht, was sie damit auslöst. Fest steht: Wer ihre Entdeckung kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Zukunft der Menschheit - und Allie wird zur Zielscheibe.

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:

FBI geneticist Mason Brown and Danish Interpol agent Jonna Nielsen have just seventy-two hours to find the missing man they call The Immortal. He's on the run across Europe and his genetic material may be the most valuable commodity in human history. There's just one problem: Someone else wants him, too. As the time to find him dwindles, Mason and Jonna seem to be one step behind a wealthy man who will stop at nothing. If the tech billionaire finds him first, it could change the economic playing field for the entire world.

When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population - killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant - the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power - and the strong who possess it.

At the close of the 24th century, a series of revolutions has caused the galaxy to descend into chaos. With the Galactic Union Army stretched thin, mercenary units have arisen for those who have the need - and the means - to hire them. Kay, the alien member of the Cutter Force Initiative, has returned to her brutal home world of Vast on a mission of mercy. Before she joined the merc team, she was a great healer. And now her skills are sorely needed. Hundreds of Vastalimi - including her blood-kin - are mysteriously dying. But is the plague a work of nature? Or is it a bioengineered virus, purposefully unleashed?

Los djos del centinela es una novela que narra el enfrentamiento del protagonista, el detective Juan Luis Ángeles, con la realidad que le toca vivir, tras ser dado de baja médica después de un accidente de tráfico. Durante este tiempo de inactividad comienza a experimentar una inquietante y misteriosa comunicación proveniente de los cuerpos sin vida. Tratando de librarse de ella, acaba por encontrarse envuelto en un juego macabro que necesita de su participación para desarrollarse.

In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls. To the police, she is a mystery. She can't even tell them her own name. They christen her Jane Doe. Suffering terrifying hallucinations...

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail as constant warfare between a ragged band of guerrillas and the local chief of police causes the tribal residents to flee. In this drought-plagued and poverty-ridden country he dreams of discovering a third Nile tributary to make the Sahara bloom.

Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix of police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a mutant strain of influenza, by tracking down people who have missed their monthly health check. Now two young female students are missing. Why were they drinking in a bikers' bar? Who are the mysterious Children of Camus cult? And why is the German government interfering in the investigation?

Ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny receives a desperate plea for help from doctors frantic to save the life of a young boy with a deadly genetic disorder. The boy, who came to his parents through a blind adoption, has no known blood relatives. Nolan agrees to help, but as he is being prepped for surgery, the boy dies. Further genetic testing then reveals an astonishing truth: Nolan and the boy share the same biological father. Nolan must confront his own father to find out the truth behind the discovery, and uncovers a heinous blackmail plot and desperate victims and villains.

Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user’s short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety. Then, on the evening of her 29th day sober, a stranger pulls into her driveway and her heart surges. However, when Mellie’s pursuit of this man and the past they may share threatens her sponsor, Mellie will have to put her tiny family and her recovery at risk in hopes of saving the woman who saved her first.