The Organ Thieves
Title | The Organ Thieves PDF eBook |
Author | Chip Jones |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1982107545 |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
The Red Market
Title | The Red Market PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Carney |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2011-05-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0062079581 |
“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.” —Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.
Organ Theft Legends
Title | Organ Theft Legends PDF eBook |
Author | Véronique Campion-Vincent |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781604737387 |
An unflinching exploration of the sources of gruesome tales of bodily harm
The Organ Broker
Title | The Organ Broker PDF eBook |
Author | Stu Strumwasser |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1628725516 |
The Organ Broker, named one of five finalists for the 2015 Hammett Prize for literary excellence in the field of crime writing (winner TBA in October of 2016), is the thrilling story of an underground black market organ dealer known as “New York Jack.” For eighteen years Jack has been a “transplant tourism director,” sending wealthy Americans and Europeans in need of kidneys and other organs to third world countries where they would buy them from transplant centers on the take. The death of a client and a newfound relationship lead to a crisis of conscience as he is forced to choose between a two million dollar commission—and participating in a murder. Jack races to South Africa, Brazil, and beyond, just one step ahead of his adversary and the FBI, in search of one small act of redemption. As a disaffected youth in the late eighties, Jack Trayner entered the criminal world, selling coke when he needed money to pay his way through college. Although he later graduated from law school, an opportunity to earn easy money eventually seduced him into the bizarre and illegal black market for organs—a business that some consider horrendous and a small number of others deem to be heroic. The dual nature of this business assuaged Jack’s guilt and allowed him to flourish, yet the death of a client makes what he is doing all too real. The Organ Broker represents Jack’s confession. The international black market sale of organs is very real and operates at this very moment behind closed hospital doors in many cities all around the world. It is a world that most people are only vaguely aware exists, and few of us know much, if anything, about, until now—in the pages of the confession of New York Jack. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Denying Pleasure
Title | Denying Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | Lexy Timms |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
What happens when you start a fire you can't quench? I thought Hunter wasn't the relationship kind of guy. He was too hot, too sexy and bad boy written all over his handsome face and muscular tattooed body. He was also at least 10 years younger than me. And the son of my boss. Flash forward to a break-up that never should have been a relationship in the first place. I still see Hunter from time to time and it's awkward as hell. Maybe dating someone more my age, more my type is what I've needed all along. But can I let go of the flame that burned so hot? Can Hunter move on? Dirty Little Taboo Series Flirting Touch – Book 1 Denying Pleasure – Book 2 Forbidding Desire – Book 3 Craving Pleasure - Book 4 Author note: This is a four part series that ends on an HEA in book 4 SEARCH TERMS: sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, ageless romance, Scottish romance, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Romance / New Adult FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy F, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, high school bully romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance high school, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance
The Desert Thieves
Title | The Desert Thieves PDF eBook |
Author | Franklin W. Dixon |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 2013-01-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442486015 |
The Hardy Boys join their father on a trip to Arizona’s magnificent Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument—a trip that becomes dangerous as they set out to find the black marketeers who are stealing rare cacti.
The Book Thief
Title | The Book Thief PDF eBook |
Author | Markus Zusak |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 578 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0307433846 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.