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The Demon in the Freezer [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Richard Preston
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 The first major bioterror event in the United States--the anthrax attacks in October 2001--was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headqua... more info>> 2002
Words: 100000 - Reading Time: 285-400 min.
Category: Technology/Science
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Richard Preston
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 Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston's bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never dreamed of. Panic in Level 4 is a grand tour through the eerie and unforgettable universe of Richard Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that... more info>>
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The Boat of Dreams: A Christmas Story [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Richard Preston
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In 1967, William T. Foster, Sr., a 34-year-old Army Reserve is called to Vietnam and lost in actions. He leaves his beloved wife, Sarah Ann, daughter, Lila, and 14-year-old son, William Jr. They live in a trailer on the coast of Maine, and parked beside the trailer is William Sr.'s beautiful but unreliable lobster boat, the Sarah Ann.The December afternoons are lonely and dark for Will and Lila, who must come home from school alone while their mother works. They start to get scared when they not... more info>>
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Richard Preston
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Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structure... more info>>
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The Cobra Event [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Richard Preston
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The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis. The details of this story are ... more info>>
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