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Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world.

Zwei der erfolgreichsten Bestsellerautoren aller Zeiten haben einen unvergesslichen Thriller geschrieben. Der verheerendste Vulkanausbruch der Geschichte droht, Hawaii zu zerstören. Doch ein Geheimnis, das seit Jahrzehnten vom Militär gehütet wird, ist noch weit bedrohlicher als der Vulkan.

Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of “alternative facts” and the slow motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.

Struggling to remain independent in the 1800s, four women reluctantly open up to help from lumberjacks - and love.