An account of the ordeal of Katie Beers describes how the ten-year-old girl was taken to the home of family friend John Esposito and imprisoned in a macabre underground cell he had built

17 Days: The Katie Beers Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Herzog, Arthur

Regional U.S.

Harpercollins

Fakery and hypocrisy in American communications are the subjects of this outspokenand hilariousbook. Uncovering our thought-pollution problem for perhaps the first time, Arthur Herzog exposes Executalk ("name of the game" for "point" or "purpose," "ball-park estimate" for "rough guess"), Quote Facts (opinions made to seem like facts by virtue of being quoted), and Complex Complex (the compulsion to make things more complicated than they need to be), to mention only a few of the current crimes against logic and language. The perpetrators of these atrocities include Fadthinkers, Word Mincers, Sci-Speakers, Copy Cant-ers, and Anything Authorities, those who, having succeeded in one field, appear on TV talk shows as experts on everything else. Without the B.S. Factor, success in America is almost impossible, says Herzog, and he goes on to call for a new breed of "radical skeptics" to clear away the B.S. that is now engulfing our country."An entertaining and witty attack."Publishers Weekly"Mr. Herzog has diagnosed the sickness brilliantly."The New York Times Book Review

The B.S. Factor: The Theory and Practice of Faking it in America

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Penguin??Books

The Swarm

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Pan/Macmillan

Documents the life of Robert Vesco, a high-school dropout from Detroit, who twisted the rules of Wall Street trading and corporate acquisitions to amass an immense fortune and who fled the U.S. in 1973

Vesco

Professionals & Academics

DOUBLEDAY

IQ 83

A world lapsing into imbecilitytrue horror!New York TimesYOU ARE DR. JAMES HEALEY AND LAST WEEK YOU WERE A GENIUSThat was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happenSince then you have felt your mind decaying a little more each day. You have watched your wife slip into imbecility. You have seen the crowds growing murderous with animal terror, the President of the United States babbling and drooling on TVOnly one thing separates you from them. You, at least, know what is happening as you search for the cure for the horror you have unleashed upon the worldas each day the dimming of your mind lowers your chance of finding it!

Berkley Publishing Group

THE SWARM.

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster

Earthsound

our name is Harry Vail and you alone know the terrifying truth—or do you…?  You are an expert on earthquakes and you fear their awesome power to the point of insanity. Now you are sure that an earthquake is building below your very feet. Your house, your family, your friends, your town, are about to be destroyed.  The cracks appearing in the walls…the "accidental" deaths of local people…the strange movements of inanimate objects—all increase the certainty of your belief and the urgency of your warnings to those around you. The trouble is, there are others who have another, even more frightening explanation for what is happening—and God help you all if they are right…  "A piercing shriek of fear and panic from page one to the shaking end!"  —Cleveland Press  Eerie suspense…Arthur Herzog's The Swarm was mighty scary, but Earthsound is even more so!"  —Publishers Weekly

Action & Adventure

Heinemann

Heat

The United States government refuses to accept one engineer's evidence that atmospheric carbon dioxide is reaching a critical level, until hurricanes shatter the landscape and the unprecedented heat buckles city streets

Genre Fiction

FAMILY ATTACKED BY BEES-TWO KILLED MARYVILLE, N.Y. Sept. 26 (AP)-A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here. Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson died as the result of bee bites. Their three children were also attacked, one, Karen, age 12, severely. The local coroner, Dr. David P. Znac, speculated that both adults had allergies to bee bites, which can be fatal. About 30 deaths a year in the U.S. are attributed to bites from bees, wasps and hornets. What caused the bees to attack is not known. This was the beginning, barely noticed. Then the terror began to spread-terror that was to erupt into a national panic as the strange, seemingly purposeful murderous attacks of a new and vicious species of bees began to mount. Against this background, a band of scientists draw upon their knowledge to fight an enemy they only partly comprehend in a desperate race against time. Built around one of man's most haunting fears-that the forces of nature will overrun his defenses and exterminate the human race-The Swarm is a vividly imagined masterpiece of chilling adventure.

Signet

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