"One of the world's foremost virus hunters" ( Financial Times), Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the origins of the world's most deadly diseases and how we can combat and stop contagions.A "mix of biology, history, medicine, and first-hand experience [that] is potent and irresistible,"* The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age shares information Wolfe uncovered on his groundbreaking and dangerous research missions in the ju...

Warum Pandemien auf dem Vormarsch sind - und wie sie sich eindämmen lassen.Sars, Ebola, Covid-19: Immer wieder tauchen neue lebensbedrohliche Infektionskrankheiten auf und verbreiten sich in Windeseile. Nathan Wolfe warnte bereits vor Jahren: Wir müssen damit rechnen, dass es in Zukunft noch mehr werden. Aber woran liegt das? Der preisgekrönte Biologe sucht mit detektivischem Spürsinn nach den Erregern rätselhafter Seuchen – in hochmodernen Forschungslabors ebenso wie im zentralafri...

"When Petals Fall on the Silver Shore" is a heartwarming tale of discovery and growth, where a group of adventurous children learns powerful life lessons through magical petals on a mystical shore. Each petal represents a different value or virtue—kindness, honesty, courage, and more—leading the children on a journey that teaches them how to embrace these qualities in their own lives. As they face challenges, solve puzzles, and help others, they discover that the greatest treasures are not...

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and why modern life has made our species vulnerable to the threat of a global pandemic.Wolfe's research missions to the jungles of Africa and the rain forests of Borneo have earned him the nickname "the Indiana Jones of virus hunters," and her...

I didn't know if I'd ever see him again.Adam Kane. My best friend, stepbrother... and the guy I fell for when I was eighteen.Three and a half years ago, Adam had a choice to make.Spoiler alert—he didn't choose me.He left me after our high school graduation and took my heart with him.Now he's back, living with me and my teammates, and the real kicker? He wants to be friends again. Brothers. He wants things to go back to the way they w...

As a gay man living alone, Tom's monotonous day takes an unexpected turn when straight delivery driver Matt arrives at his door. Matt is grappling with the meaning of life, while Tom finds himself grappling with the meaning of Matt. "Special Delivery," a debut novel by Arnold Miles, explores the challenges and joys of exploring friendship, intimacy, and sexuality.

JamieIn one moment, I found the man of my dreams. In another moment, I lost him.Without Cooper, my world was fractured, and I made sure his twin brother knew it. I unleashed all my pain onto Caiden, ignoring the fact that he wasn't to blame. Afterwards, I spent three years pretending I'd moved on, pretending that I'd left the past behind me. I became so good at it. No one saw the heartbroken man behind the mask.Until one phone call brings Caiden bac...

Mushroom fae Claude Stinkhorn leads an extraordinarily boring life. He works as a conductor on Remy's underground railway, lives alone in a windowless, basement apartment, and occasionally enjoys a moderately priced chai latte. He's never been happier.After the death of his absentee father, Claude inherits a house. But it's no ordinary house. It's a mansion, it's sentient, it's a pain in the ass, and Claude must perform an ancient magical ritual twice a year to kee...

Mash Cassidy, smooth-talking werewolf and notorious ladies' man, has been running from his responsibilities and his pack for fifteen years. But with Harvest Fest only weeks away, Alpha's ordering him to return home, and she won't take no for an answer. It's time for him to grow up and mate with a nice werewolf girl. In fact, Alpha already has one in mind.But Mash wasn't built for settling down, and in a desperate move to keep Alpha off his back, he drags his wolf s...

At the onset of winter, the old man's life abruptly changes the day he stumbles upon a pagan cult of female survivalists. The Society of Sisters has been living off the grid for fifteen years as they prepare for the end of days.Under Sheila Carson's charismatic leadership, the clan has turned a lucky lottery ticket into a vast digital library of learning. As devoted followers of Athenia, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, it is the sisterhood's sacred duty to preserve knowledge i...

Award winning author James Duermeyer has written another western, Counterfeit Rodeos, Book Three, in his Nathan Wolf series: After a casual afternoon visit to a local rodeo, Nathan Wolf discovers that the rodeo performance is rigged by a criminal element that is willing to commit murder to keep its secrets from reaching the arm of the law. But Nathan soon learns that rigged rodeos are only one piece of a much larger multi-faceted criminal enterprise that spans many states in its reach. Sev...

Award winning author James Duermeyer continues the saga of lawman Nathan Wolf in this exciting story of the old West. His story is set in the period following reconstruction in America’s history, when former Southern slaves migrated to Kansas to pursue the dream of owning their own land. But the reputation of “bloody Kansas” was still alive, with disreputable outlaws creating evil havoc in this gripping novel of the old West.Nathan Wolf has moved from Iowa to southeast Kansas to be...