Created by secret, cutting-edge weather science, category 7 Hurricane Simone is not just an unnatural disaster--she's a weapon. Meteorologist Kate Shermoan and CIA weatherman Jake Baxter must figure out how to stop the storm she flattens New York City, and identify Simone's master before he has them killed.

"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality...

Famous cases/problems covered include identifying MIA remains, John Belushi, Pinchos Jaroslawicz, David Hendricks, Mary Beth Tinning, Joe Christopher, Richard Kuklinski, Catherine Fried, Carl Coppolino, Dr. X, Whitney Young, Josephine Wells Brown, Daphne Mellon, S & M, Leonard Barco, Claus von Bulow, Attica Prison riot deaths.

"Truly trivia you can't live without, A People's History of the Peculiar is filled with facts, lists, definitions, and astonishing information guaranteed to provide you with the best cocktail conversation for many years to come! Your guide, Nick Belardes, has devoted his life to poking around the peculiar and perplexing. Explore the unknown stories behind why the nation's capitol didn't stay in Philadelphia, why some fossils are smiling, and how,...

"Preface Everything that exists is made of atoms, and most of those substances contain groups of two or more of these bonded together to form molecules. Chemistry is the science of molecules. From cooking to medicine, from engineering to art, it is everywhere"--

An epic fantasy of the west. Hungry darkness, haunted guns, tunnels that move like snakes--the crystal mines of Medicine Rocks, Montana are a place only the bravest and greediest dare. Discovered in 1866, the miraculous rock known as crystal quickly rose to become the most expensive substance on the planet, driving thousands to break the treaties and invade the sacred buffalo lands of the Sioux for a chance at the wealth beneath. But mining crystal...

"According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2017, more than 700,000 Americans died as a result of drug overdose. In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids such as heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999. The news is rife with stories surrounding the opioid crisis-from settlements with drug companies, to effective treatment options-even the resistance...