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Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face.

An ancient amulet. A family of warrior rats. And a looming attack from the feared Clan of Shadows. Heathermoor Valley is a peaceful place, until the sinister fox Ghost Eye attacks the ancient fortress of Thornkeep with the savage Clan of Shadows army. The only hope for the rats of Thornkeep is to get word to their allies, the ferocious Bear Clan in far-away Honey Cliff.

A door in the ice is discovered in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica. And it just opened . . . Hidden beneath a sheet of ice, Draconis Industries has been working on a powerful new technology. Harvey Bennett and his new team are sent in to shut them down, but what they find inside is far more sinister than they could have imagined. Worst of all, an army of Chinese soldiers—hoping to get their hands on the tech—are at their heels.

When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet: The Amazon Rainforest. When Harvey "Ben" Bennett gets a hint that the nefarious organization he's been searching for has turned up in Brazil, he and his new girlfriend Juliette Richardson race to the jungle to discover what they're after—and hopefully stop them.

On America's 100th birthday, the people of France built a giant gift! It was one of the largest statues the world had ever seen—and she weighed as much as 40 elephants! And when she arrived on our shores in 250 pieces, she needed a pedestal to hold her up. Few of America's millionaires were willing to foot the bill. Then, Joseph Pulitzer (a poor Hungarian immigrant-cum-newspaper mogul) appealed to his fellow citizens. He invited them to contribute whatever they could, no matter how small an amount, to raise funds to mount this statue.

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were given sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. Upon reaching the West, they were entitled to special benefits, including financial assistance and permanent residency. In contrast to other migrants, defectors were pursued by the states they left even as they were eagerly sought by the United States and its allies. Defectors follows their treacherous journeys and looks at how their unauthorized flight via land, sea, and air gave shape to a globalized world.

But what can we do about it? Explore the fascinating mysteries of our hidden stress response system with Dr. Wulsin, who uses his decades of experience to show how toxic stress impacts our bodies. He gives us the expert advice and tools needed to prevent toxic stress from taking over. Chapter by chapter, learn to help your body and mind recover from toxic stress.

A marine biology and science-themed park is scheduled to open later this year. But there seems to be something sinister going on beneath the surface. Amusement parks are supposed to be about fun and entertainment...not death.

He was murdered for a secret—one he took to his grave. 200 years later, that secret is haunting him again. Meriwether Lewis was murdered. The organization behind it has been growing quietly in the shadows. And only Harvey Bennett and the CSO can stop them.

Veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America's war against water scarcity. Annin probes deep into the water reuse movement in five water-strapped states—California, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida. He drinks beer made from purified sewage, visits communities where purified sewage came to the rescue, and examines how one of the nation's largest wastewater plants hopes to recycle one hundred percent of its wastewater by 2035.