Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers "a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients (The New York Times Book Review).Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant prices for life-saving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in drug companies. Now, Americans are demanding a national reckoning with a monolithic industry. "Gerald's dogged reporting, sets Pharma apart from all books on this subject" (The Washington Standard) as we are introduced to brilliant scientists, incorruptible government... Views: 539
Ronnie Williams is back again! And so is his dad and his two best friends Billie and Adrian. After dominating baseball and basketball (kinda), Ronnie is going somewhere he's never gone before. The soccer field! But trying something new won't be easy and will be filled with ups and downs. Luckily with his friends by his side and his dad helping him all the way, Ronnie just might be able to save the day. Let's kick it! Views: 539
A raucous comedy about a paranoid loser who maybe wasn't paranoid enough...In the sixties, Jeffrey Parker briefly attended an antiwar rally. He wasn't all that interested—he just listened to a few speeches, and went home...and nothing was ever the same.In this wildly comic novel, Parker's brief dalliance is the beginning of the end. He never lands a decent job. Women never stick around. He has terrible stretches of bad luck, and is the unwilling victim of just plain bizarre occurances: once, he comes home to find that the final page in every one of his books has been removed.Then Parker discovers that he's been the target of a government plot—like the FBI's real-life COINTELPRO—and the obsession of a rogue FBI agent who just won't give up.This outrageously imaginative debut is reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole's explosive, out-of-nowhere farce A Confederacy of Dunces. Part thriller, part national tragedy, and all hysterical... Views: 538
From within the hives of Necromunda, where unchecked billions teem and fester, House Cawdor knows the truth – the doom of the universe hangs eternal over their heads. You cannot escape it, and you cannot escape your past.Floodgrave burns, and with it burns the life Zeke of House Cawdor has built. With his friends dead, their children missing, and the culprits nowhere to be found, Zeke takes up the weapons he swore to leave behind, and starts a path downhive that will see him face the man he used to be. He will stop at nothing, even if that means bringing the horrors of his past back into the light. Views: 538
When screenwriter and winery co-owner Norrie Ellington agrees to let her producer film a movie scene at Two Witches Winery, her biggest concerns revolve around the crew trampling her precious vines and starstruck fans crowding the vineyard to spot the famous actors. But nothing had prepared her for the film's director, an unbearable diva with a growing list of unreasonable demands—along with a growing list of enemies. And when the director turns up dead, apparently the victim of foul play, a very public altercation Norrie had with the victim the day before puts her in the spotlight as the lead suspect.Knowing she'll have to root out the killer herself to get off the narrow-minded local sheriff's most-wanted list, Norrie compiles a large selection of potential suspects, including vengeful actors the director had once blacklisted and even the director's estranged husband, a high-profile candy magnate trying to bring a burgeoning market for concord grapes to the... Views: 538
