Diese Autorin taucht tief in historische Mysterien ein, die in New York City angesiedelt sind, und verwebt Elemente der Forensik, Anatomie und Apothekerheilkunde. Ihre Belletristik für Erwachsene erforscht dunklere Winkel der Vergangenheit, oft angesiedelt in dramatischen historischen Perioden wie dem Höhepunkt einer Epidemie oder der zwielichtigen Welt des Grabraubs. Ihre Erzählungen zeichnen sich durch eine Faszination für Alchemie, chemische Prozesse und einen Hauch des Übernatürlichen aus. Neben ihrer Belletristik trägt sie auch zu Sachbüchern bei, die seltsame und oft gefährliche historische Heilmethoden untersuchen.
Von der Pest bis zum Coronavirus. Die schlimmsten Infektionskrankheiten der Weltgeschichte. Entstehung, Verbreitung, Heilung von Pandemien wie Ebola, Cholera, Typhus
Eine sehr aktuelle Geschichte über Krankheitsausbrüche, von den Autoren von Quackery: Geschichten über Ausbrüche (und ihre Patient Null), sowie Kapitel über die Wissenschaft, Kultur und Heilmittel für verschiedene Arten von Epidemien und Pandemien. Beliebte Lektüre zu einem zeitgemäßen Thema.
Die bizarrsten Arzneimittel und kuriosesten Heilmethoden der Geschichte
Eine schaurig-schöne Reise durch die Abgründe der Medizingeschichte – rezeptfrei und mit Gänsehautgarantie! Wieselhoden als Verhütungsmittel, Aderlass gegen Blutverlust oder glühende Eisen bei Liebeskummer: Aus heutiger Sicht mögen solche Behandlungsmethoden völlig absurd erscheinen. Aber es gab Zeiten, da glaubte man fest an ihre Wirkung. Entweder weil man wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse bewusst ignorierte oder die Medizin einfach noch nicht so weit war. Dieses reich bebilderte Buch ist ein ebenso informatives wie unterhaltsames Sammelsurium dessen, was den Menschen im Laufe der Jahrhunderte fälschlicherweise als Heilung versprochen wurde – und nicht selten das genaue Gegenteil bewirkte.
After the thrilling events of The High Republic: Convergence, the Jedi race to confront the Path of the Open Hand and end the Forever War.After five years of conflict, the planets Eiram and E'ronoh are on the cusp of real peace. But when news breaks of a disaster at the treaty signing on Jedha,... číst celé
New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied. Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her.
Two hearts. Twice as vulnerable. Manhattan, 1850. Born out of wedlock to a wealthy socialite and a nameless immigrant, Cora Lee can mingle with the rich just as easily as she can slip unnoticed into the slums and graveyards of the city. As the only female resurrectionist in New York, she's carved out a niche procuring bodies afflicted with the strangest of anomalies. Anatomists will pay exorbitant sums for such specimens--dissecting and displaying them for the eager public. Cora's specialty is not only profitable, it's a means to keep a finger on the pulse of those searching for her. She's the girl born with two hearts--a legend among grave robbers and anatomists--sought after as an endangered prize. Now, as a series of murders unfolds closer and closer to Cora, she can no longer trust those she holds dear, including the young medical student she's fallen for. Because someone has no intention of waiting for Cora to die a natural death.
Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame. All appear to have been poisoned--and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note. Desperate for answers and dreading her own engagement to a wealthy gentleman, Allene returns to her passion for scientific discovery and recruits her long-lost friends, Jasper and Birdie, for help. The investigation brings her closer to Jasper, an apprentice medical examiner at Bellevue Hospital who still holds her heart, and offers the delicate Birdie a last-ditch chance to find a safe haven before her fragile health fails. As more of their friends and family die, alliances shift, lives become entangled, and the three begin to suspect everyone--even each other. As they race to find the culprit, Allene, Birdie, and Jasper must once again trust each other, before one of them becomes the next victim.
Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts.But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs. This stranger harbors an obsession with poisons, an affection for fine things, and a singular talent for killing small creatures. As she draws Will and Maggie deeper into her mysterious past, they both begin to suspect she’s quite dangerous―all while falling helplessly under her spell.With whispers of spies in dark corners and the world’s first atomic bomb in the works, the visitor’s sudden presence in Maggie’s and Will’s lives raises questions about who she is and what she wants. Is this mysterious woman someone they can trust―or a threat to everything they hold dear?
When a crash kills their father and leaves them orphaned, Zel knows she needs to protect her sister, Dyl. But before Zel has a plan, Dyl is taken by strangers using bizarre sensory weapons, and Zel finds herself in a safe house for teens who aren’t like any she’s ever seen before—teens who shouldn’t even exist. Using broken-down technology, her new friends’ peculiar gifts, and her own grit, Zel must find a way to get her sister back from the kidnappers who think a powerful secret is encoded in Dyl’s DNA. Set in 2150—in a world of automatic cars, nightclubs with auditory ecstasy drugs, and guys with four arms—this is about the human genetic “mistakes” that society wants to forget, and the way that outcasts can turn out to be heroes.
