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International BestsellerWinner of the Warwick Prize for Writing18th in The Guardian's top 100 Greatest Books since 2000"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell.” —John le CarréThe bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

**A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient, In Shock "searches for a glimmer of hope in life’s darkest moments, and finds it.” —The Washington PostDr. Rana Awdish never imagined that an emergency trip to the hospital would result in hemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. But after her first visit, Dr. Awdish spent months fighting for her life, enduring consecutive major surgeries a...

3-Books of marital misadventure of the female-led kind open with Melanie Sanders’ “Into My Web”, her description of what happens when a husband's cheating turns a wife bad. A change for the worse which turns bad for the husband also. Financially dependent and fearful of divorce he is soon reduced to domesticity in its most hands-on form as his wife supplies him a taste of his own cheating medicine… But the worst is yet to come.“My Husband is My Servant” from Shayla Marks follows, a...

Even with his new internship, James is something of a slacker - he barely even knows what he's working on at his job. When he's left alone to clean up the lab at night, curiosity gets the better of him as he samples the project they've been working on. The curious concoction turns out to have some very special properties, and James soon finds himself turning into a woman - and a horny one, at that!Warning! This adults only story contains 3,800 words of gender transformation, mastur...

2-Books of marital misadventure of the female-led kind open with Rafael Menton’s “A Shock To His System”, relating how the bequest of a house and a sizable annuity from a deceased aunt effects huge changes in the mindset of a previously loving wife. Especially when she takes receipt of a document in her aunt’s hand that details her relationship with the man she had always called “Uncle” and thought so distinguished and masculine… A document that will change the life of her own recently ban...

After barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has to suffer through a month of recovery before he can return home to Colorado. He’s not surprised when fellow Sidewinder Nick O’Flaherty stays with him in New Orleans. Nor is he surprised when Nick travels home with him to help him get back on his feet—after all, years on the same Marine Force Recon team bonded the men in ways that only bleeding for a brother can. He’s very surprised, though, when Nick humors...

A thousand years in the future, human civilisation has been driven to the brink of extinction by the Killers, a mysterious alien race seemingly intent on exterminating every other form of sentient life. Desperately fleeing utter annihilation, a handful of starships use an experimental stardrive in a bid to escape, only to find themselves thrown back in time to the dawn of the First Interstellar War in 2308, where mankind is making its first stand against an alien foe. And they are not alon...

✔️Office Romance✔️Age Gap Romance✔️Missing Cursed Mask--------The investigation draws them together, will office politics tear them apart?DerekFor the past two years, my assistant Bethany Colombo has unknowingly been tormenting me.Hiring Bethany to keep my private security company, Pride Security, running smoothly was both the best and worst thing I ever did. There is no question she...

**“[An] impressive debut.”—The New York Times“A wonderfully conceived and remarkably assured first novel, rich in emotion and with a truly compelling narrative drive. A brilliant success.”—William Boyd, bestselling author of Any Human HeartFor readers of The Nightingale, In Memoriam, and The Postcard, a sweeping novel of siblings, steeped in love, heart-rending loss, and sacrifice, the story of twins who meet shocki...

Book 5 of the bestselling Shock Me series.If the heroes catch her, they'll kill her!When a car came crashing into Donna, she thought she was going to die. Instead, she discovered she could transform into something terrifying and inhuman. Not knowing who to trust, she's tempted to turn to Ryan—a guy from her past who haunts her dreams. He knows of an electrifying intruder that has entered their town.But Ryan has other big secrets too…

A young boy steps out of a thunderstorm and onto a strange bus. Like a flash of lightning, his long-gone grandmother suddenly appears on the bus too! Is she there to offer him a gift . . . or a warning? The boy is in for a shocking surprise. Step aboard Michael Dahl's addictively creepy SCHOOL BUS OF HORRORS where the final destination is never expected.

Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles.Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk, where the Makers and the Hackers dwell, modern rebels and punks, hiding just out of sight.Eleven authors peer into that short distance into the future to see what lies ahead.This is Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue 002: T...