On a planet far far away, a young veterinarian is drafted into service by his autocratic government. Dr. Cy Berger's family is imprisoned and threatened with torture and death if he doesn't successfully run the first-ever interplanetary veterinary service. His mission is to travel the galaxy, spread goodwill, and offer veterinary services to the inhabitants. He's given a spaceship furnished with the finest medical equipment and lab facilities, and his crew includes one veterinary assistant...

In Book 2 of the Galactic Circle Veterinary Service Series, the crew responds to a call for help from the planet New Mecca, the galaxy's center of the Islamic faith. Dr. Cy Berger, his wife, Dr. Roxanne Simon, and Furoletto Cohen, their engineer and medical assistant, all hail from Jewish home worlds settled during the Great Diaspora when Jews were driven from Old Earth by a militant Islamic world government. The GCVS crew includes a young dragon and a werewolf who are medical interns, and...

The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research, and disadvantages/advantes of use. Chapters on comparative models take a broad sweep of age-related diseases, from Alzheimer's to joint disease, cataracts, cancer, and obesity. In addition, the...

Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’ re coming. They’re hungry.Don’t wait for them to come to you!This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks from the dawn of humanity. On the African savannas, against the legions of ancient Rome, on the high seas with Francis Drake . . . every civiliza...

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor“She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.”The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa—a name that meant nothing to a...

In ASSASSIN'S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War.When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe ...

On the bloody battlefields of Iraq, one man’s quest to find God will unleash Hell.For more than a decade, Nick Kismet has traveled the world protecting priceless relics and cultural heritage sites from looters, while searching for answers to the mystery that has haunted him since the first Gulf War—a mystery that has defined his life. Now, a new war has brought him back to the bloody battlefield where his search began.Summoned by his friend and mentor, Pierre Chiron, Kismet...

"One of Esquire's Best Science Fiction Books of All Time!"⭐ "The book is grounded by its unflinching exposure of the brutalities of colonialism, racism, and greed, and exalted by the beauty of Okorafor’s prose." —Library Journal (starred review)The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of AfricanFuturism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okora...

New York Times Notable Book of the YearExplore a universe where genetic mutations allow individuals to traverse the stars in this action-packed space opera for fans of Frank Herbert and Samuel R. Delaney!It is the second stage of human colonization—the first age, humanity’s initial attempt to people the stars, ended in disaster when it was discovered that Earth’s original superluminal drive did permanent genetic damage to all who u...

Earth discovers abandoned star gates that lead humanity to a genocidal alien race, in this space opera trilogy opener by a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author."The author of Maximum Light blends a taut story of survival and culture shock with a thoughtful exploration of the nature of humanity." — Library JournalHumankind has expanded out into interstellar space using st...

2026 UPGRADEDThe Golden Pill promised eternal life. It delivered the zombie apocalypse.When Sapen descends from the sky, he offers Earth everything humanity has prayed for: healed bodies, brilliant minds, peace between nations, and a future among the stars. All anyone has to do is accept his gift.Louis says no.For one year, he watches the world change around him. His family takes the Pill. His classmates become stronger, sma...

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future t...