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"5 out of 5 stars. I highly recommend Nutshell to fans of medical thrillers and psychological novels." –Online Book Club During Dust Bowl days in west Texas, a country doctor with shaky credentials delivers a baby, a so-called "monster," acceptable parlance of that era indicating a newborn with multiple birth defects. Later, Ivy Pettibone is mistakenly thought schizophrenic due to her garbled speech, landing her in a mental institution. There, she weaponizes one of her unusual birth defects, allowing her to emerge as an alpha female among the inmates. In a parallel story merging decades ...

Did you ever wonder what happens deep within a Psychiatric Hospital — where average people who go violently insane are suddenly swept away? Where their fate is decided by a valiant corps of young doctors and nurses — and by other staff who may be worse off than the patients. No doctor has ever before dared to tell the amazing and horrifying --­­­ yet sometimes tender and heartwarming stories that happen there. World-renowned best-selling author David Reuben, M.D. experienced it first hand — and he tells it honestly and directly … with all the drama and sex and pathos of life ...

Aus einem fensterlosen Labor, das von keinem Menschen betreten wurde und dessen einzige Tür unter ständiger Beobachtung stand, ist eine Unze Radium im Wert von drei Millionen Dollar verschwunden. Unmöglich!, meint Prof. Dexter. Sein berühmter Kollege van Dusen ist indigniert. Sein Wahlspruch lautet: Nichts ist unmöglich, und so macht sich der große Kriminologe daran, das mysteriöse Geschehen aufzuklären.

A story about a young Ukrainian man who was very fond of his wife but secretly dreamed of other women. A friend of his advised him to visit a local brothel... Chapter I His name was Kostya Steshenko and he was having a hard time these days. He wanted a new woman so much that he could hardly control himself. Kostya worked in a big city, and every day he saw around him hundreds, even thousands of the most attractive and beautiful girls in the world. ‘It’s good for people abroad, in Europe. Someone once said that a pretty woman is a rarity there,’ Kostya sighed heavily. ‘How can I ...

What If There's a Pattern to the Madness? The Andromeda Strain meets Chinatown in this thrilling patchwork story. More and more people are reported being obsessed with unusual tasks and tested positive for rabies. But when an investigator finds a pattern to the madness and tries to tell people, will anyone listen? Do you want to know what’s next for the inexperienced investigator? Do you wanna meet the crazies? Then read this thrilling patchwork of the weirdest bio-scare ever encountered. From ScifiSelect: "Makes you want to go looking for clues on your own." From Seth: "The story... got ...

When a Belgian industrialist is diagnosed with cancer and told that he doesn't have long to live, he decides to bet his fortune on Prof. Zirkovsky's research. He convinces Zirkovsky to quit his teaching position in Brussels and set up a laboratory in Charlerois, a small town, in order to conduct experiments with monkeys. When Zirkovsky's research shows the first signs of success, animal-rights activists demand him to abandon his experiments. A series of violent attacks against the lab lead the industrialist to call his insurer, Alfred Grail, a Vietnam veteran living in Switzerland. What ...

„Der Tod ist weiß wie Schnee.“ Der Kampf um Leben und Tod ist der Alltag der ehrgeizigen Unfallchirurgin Lisa Wenger. Doch dieser Job fordert immer mehr seinen Tribut – Lisa muss nachhelfen, um die anstrengenden Schichten durchzustehen und mehr als einmal überschätzt sie ihre eigenen Kräfte. So auch, als sie auf dem nächtlichen Weg nach Hause einen schrecklichen Unfall verursacht. Von nun an kann Lisa dabei zusehen, wie ihr einst erfolgreiches Leben zerbricht: Sie leidet unter Schuldgefühlen, verliert ihren Job und gerät in den Fokus polizeilicher Ermittlungen .