In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging than the diseases they reference. The information disseminated through them is often inaccurate, incorporating xenophobic explanations of the disease’s origins and questionable medical inform...

First Contact Gone Wrong!They arrive every 16 years. They examine, study, and catalog the human species and then murder and eviscerate anyone they encounter. Thaddeus Millan fought them off for years, and now it's Cal's turn. Unfortunately, a mutated virus drives them insane, causing order to collapse. Trapped on an isolated mountain with an inexperienced group, Cal must navigate crazed aliens, a hostile military, and his past to save as many as possible. Meanwhile...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.When it all comes tumbling down!It was all so sickeningly familiar. Arrive with superior technology, decimate the indigenous population with disease and murder, then build your new world on top of their old.Worldwide events spin out of control for Jenn, Rick, and a small group of survivors of an extinction-level pandemic. Caused by an alien species, they must survive a plague of zombies, the rise of homi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Life sucked, and then the apocalypse.He knew he shouldn't get involved, but he always scratched an itch, and now he had pissed off bikers, Euro-trash drug smugglers, a goth zombie girl, and a homicidal psychopath, all trying to catch him. Oh yeah, don't forget the hurricane of the century and a zombie-making alien pandemic bearing down on them.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.First Contact Gone Wrong!They arrive every 16 years. They examine, study, and catalog the human species and then murder and eviscerate anyone they encounter. Thaddeus Millan fought them off for years, and now it's Cal's turn. Unfortunately, a mutated virus drives them insane, causing order to collapse. Trapped on an isolated mountain with an inexperienced group, Cal must navigate crazed aliens, a hostile milit...

A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the h...

Brought to you by Penguin.He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that...

Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has become an internationally famed icon, as revered as he is controversial. A Marxist ideologue, he sought to end global inequality by bringing down the American capitalist empire through armed guerrilla warfare - and has few rivals in the Cold War era as an apostle of change.In Che: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández ...

“A resourceful, even intrepid, piece of reportage . . . A book of unusual immediacy, one that has the unmistakable ring of authenticity.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World“A very good piece of battle reporting . . . especially vivid.” —Washington MonthlyPrior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war in Iraq for the New Yorker, J...

Jon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahideen's insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was again on the ground as an early eyewitness to the new war launched by the US against the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. At the time, the American military had prevailed on the battlefield, and the newfound peace seemed to offer a precious space for Afghan society to restore itself and to f...

In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, this New Yorker correspondent “embedded’ himself among the people of Baghdad and, along with a small number of other Western reporters, rode out the entire invasion and much of the subsequent occupation from inside the city. Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches from Baghdad were immediately and widely recognized as the most important writing anyone was doing on the war anywhere, for any publication. In recognition of its signific...

Something stirs in the shadows of the trees...Memories stir in the mind of a man...JayDee Svendsen is planning to end his life. Facing a devastating diagnosis, he decides to leave the warm comfort of Arizona to return to the tip of Death's Door in Wisconsin and the surroundings of his youth. It is there that the memories haunt him...But memory is fickle. And though he sets out to exorcise the inner demons of his childhood, he soon r...