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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

One in ten people older than sixty-five, and nearly half of those older than eighty-five, have Alzheimer's disease.It's widely accepted nowadays that memory loss comes with age. Alzheimer's currently robs at least 15 million people of their identity worldwide. This book makes the controversial claim that eating meat may contribute to the development of the disease.In Dying for a Hamburger, Dr. Murray Waldman and Marjorie Lamb draw upon documentary ev...

Last Doorway Productions and Black Bed Sheet Books celebrate women in horror fiction by partnering to bring a chilling, all-female horror anthology! Horror Host Miss Misery (Reyna Young) has brought together 13 stories bound to elicit the piercing shrieks women in cinema are known for. Make no mistake, however…these hard-hitting horror gems prove the 'softer sex' can bring the punishment, too! Award-winning editor Suzie Lockhart joins this terrifying team, ensuring there will be no sleep t...

Meet Max Crumbly in this series from #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries author Rachel Renée Russell!Max Crumbly is about to face the scariest place he’s ever been: South Ridge Middle School.There’s a lot that’s great about his new school, but there’s also one big problem—Doug, the school bully whose hobby is stuffing Max in his locker. If only Max could be like the hero in his favorite comics. Unfortunately...

Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere. Meet Cute is an anthology of original short stories featuring tales of “how they first met” from some of today’s most popular YA authors.Readers will experience Nina LaCour’s beautifully written piece about two Bay Area girls meeting via a cranky customer service Tweet, Sara Shepard’s glossy tale about a magazine intern and a young rock star, Nicola Yoon’s imaginative take on ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword.“You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington PostBill Bryson once again proves himself to b...

"In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat of antibiotic overuse goes far beyond resistant infections."— NatureRenowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for the equilibrium and health of our bo...

Sinfully sexy five-book boxed set featuring the entire Ruthless series of Rockstar Romances!Now you can get the entire series at a huge discount!JAXRANEWILDERLOWTRUE1. JAX: A Rockstar Stepbrother RomanceJaxson Blue is rock royalty: the son of one of the biggest names on the planet. He was my first...everything.Then he broke my heart in the most public way possi...

The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipw...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller**Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleFrom Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay**-**an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in hi...

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of this rapid shift in oral evolution and the health risks posed by obstructed airways?Sand...

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today-including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism.Dr. Stoller maintains that the best evidence in medical research is not incorporated into clinical practice unless the medical ca...