With each successive bestseller, including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgment, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scary," (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe. Now, in Miracle Cure, Michael Palmer delivers his most electrifying thriller yet, as an unsuspecting doctor seeks...

Michael Palmer, a skilled physician and veteran of big city emergency rooms, burst on the literary scene with The Sisterhood, a riveting medical thriller that instantly climbed the New York Times bestseller list. Palmer followed up that smashing debut with a string of major bestsellers, each one revealing a new aspect of his talent for medical terror. Now, for the first time, three of Michael Palmer's most gripping medical thrillers appear together in a s...

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Dillon has to deal with a culture he is unfamiliar and tr...

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Dillon has to deal with a culture he is unfamiliar and tr...

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of eight short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Saturday Evening Post, or Scribner's Magazine.Included in this collection:The Offshore PirateThe Ice PalaceHead and ShouldersThe Cut-Glass BowlBernice Bobs Her HairBenedictionDalyrimple Goe...

What happens when a civilization reaches absolute perfection—and finds nothing left worth doing? In The Ultimate World, Bryce Walton imagines a society so advanced that curiosity itself has faded, leaving a single desperate question: is continued existence still justified? The story follows Amco, chosen to travel millions of years forward to uncover what becomes of a flawless world once its goals are exhausted. What he finds is not a triumphant future, but something stranger and d...

On Venus, strength is the only law that endures. In the steaming swamps and choking mists, survival belongs to the swift, the ruthless, and the perfectly adapted. At the center of that brutal ecosystem lives a vast, ancient being whose supersonic brain makes him master of every ripple and shadow. He has endured uncounted ages by acting before thought, by striking first, by never hesitating. Then something impossible touches his mind.An Earth woman wanders lost in the jungle, unawar...

Karl Barstac has one destination left in the solar system. Mars is closed to him, Earth is locked behind the New System’s laws, and deep space is strangled by patrol nets. Only Deimos remains — a barren rock where the mist-like Martians are said to grant dreams to the lost, and where no one returns unchanged.He fights his way to freedom with a weapon he spent ten years building in secret, determined never to be taken alive again. But his escape is interrupted by Marian Sayers, the ...

The world has already ended, but the final choice hasn’t been made.In the shattered remains of a town, the last survivors cling to what little they have left. Food is scarce, defenses are failing, and something far more dangerous than hunger is closing in. The Children—feral, relentless, and born into a broken world—have found a way inside. They move beneath the ruins, waiting, watching, ready to overwhelm what remains of the old guard.As the group prepares a desperate esca...

Doctor Spechaug has always believed he stands above the provincial town that surrounds his small college. He lectures on hysteria and abnormal behavior with clinical detachment, certain that reason is his armor. But one violent morning leaves blood on his cuffs and missing minutes in his memory, and suddenly the man who studies the mind is no longer certain of his own.In the shadowed woods beyond town, he meets Edith Bailey, a brilliant, unsettling student who has been watching him...

Some questions can change the course of history. Others can determine whether humanity survives at all.Lost Sci-Fi Books 451 through 455 brings together five unforgettable stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction, where dangerous worlds, impossible choices, and brilliant imagination collide. Whether it’s an expedition into the unknown, a desperate struggle for survival, or a mystery that challenges everything we believe, these classic tales continue to captiv...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 226 thru 230 gathers an extraordinary range of vintage science-fiction—from cosmic dread to patriotic devotion, sly humor to tragic heroism.In Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara, Contact Man Pat Travis lands on the astrologer-ruled world of Mert during an eclipse that marks him as an omen of disaster. Trapped among the “unfortunates” condemned by their birth-charts, he must turn superstition into strategy befor...