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  • Polar Swap
    Arthur III Herzog
    Four Americans seek refuge from skin cancer which has become an epidemic in the US. They meet in Canada where one has rented a gothic house close to the Eskimo village which add to the trouble. They fear the earths magnetic poles will trade places and exterminate the human race. They try experiments that simulate a magnetic pole reversal. Then the polar swap actually happens. ...
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    16,15 €

  • Beyond Sci-Fi
    Arthur III Herzog
    Beyond Sci-Fi includes a collection of short stories and novella. 'The Ark of Arrogance' is the story of refugees living on an ark as means of survival due to a massive flood on Long Island. Escaping on the ark doesn’t provide safety, but instead brings catastrophic results, including mayhem, martial law, looting and murder. Other stories in the collection include jealous tenni...
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    16,27 €

  • A Murder in Our Town
    Arthur III Herzog
    From award-winning novelist Arthur Herzogcomes a true-crime story of rich and poor, murder and retributionin a town rooted in self-denial.In Salisbury, Connecticut, the lavish weekend homes of wealthy New Yorkers stand only a short distance from the dilapidated houses of the local working class, known as the 'raggies'. But this seemingly calm and pastoral community has a sordid...
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    8,67 €

  • How to Write Almost Anything Better and Faster!
    Arthur Herzog III
    Would you like to improve your writing skills and become the writer you know you should be?Are you simply frustrated with your own writing, knowing deep inside you could be, and should be, producing much better work?Does the fear of writing, or perceived lack of ability, cause you to break into a cold sweat when you have been assigned a project due in a few days?Do you want to ...
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    11,00 €

  • The Third State
    Arthur Herzog III
    Why was he in denial? What was it that he couldn’t face? Something terrible had happened. He felt terrible.It’s nothing, he reassured himself. Everything’s okay.Still, he felt discombobulated as if his story didn’t hang together, as if he failed to grasp a central theme, whatever that was. Something that made sense, seemed reasonable.But, who were the DOAs?And where was he?Poli...
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    11,28 €

  • Body Parts
    Arthur Herzog III
    From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in Body Parts cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? Will the love modem result in romance or homicide? Should a loose tongue reveal its secrets? Would a guru who brings bliss be killed by the government?What’s to stop pigs being raised to provide artificial hearts from revolting? Could a rowing machine be us...
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    17,38 €

  • The Town that Moved to Mexico
    Arthur Herzog III
    The small towns of Hinchville, CA, and La Lacrimosa, Mexico, dispute ownership of a small strip of land on the border between them. When an earthquake causes a bizarre landslide, and several of the houses in Hinchville end up in La Lacrimosa’s town square, the minor dispute becomes an international incident.The Mexican mayor turns the tables on the Americans by forcing them to ...
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    16,27 €

  • Icetopia
    Arthur Herzog III
    Col. Joseph Pike was planning for his early retirement from the Army Corps of Engineers. He had the bungalow in the Caribbean picked out, and all that was left was to put in his notice, make the down payment, and pack his bags. Then he was called in for one last assignment.An Army encampment from the late 1960’s, a city built under the ice of a glacier in Greenland, was origina...
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    18,44 €

  • Imortalon
    Arthur Herzog III
    Enjoy everlasting youth withImortalonIt was possibly the discovery of a lifetime: a drug that would reverse the effects of aging, seemingly indefinitely. The tests were all positive, first on rats, then monkeys and other large animals, and finally, on humans. It was a dream come true, the promise of a healthy, happy life, with all the benefits of the young, including energy, vi...
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    11,86 €

  • The Village Buyers
    Arthur Herzog III
    Sally Edwards is the only realtor in the sleepy Hamptons town of Bayville, New York. Business is slow, and Sally is beginning to wonder if she will be able to make ends meet, when she receives an offer that seems to solve all of her problems. Her little company is bought out by Millennium 3, a large, multi-national conglomerate that has a mysterious history. Executives from Mil...
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    19,64 €

  • The War-Peace Establishment
    Arthur Herzog III
    There has come to exist in the United States, as a result of the cold war, a body of specialists accustomed to dealing with issues of war and peace which may be described as a war-peace establishment. It is clear that there are important divisions of viewpoint in the United States, especially among those who have concerned themselves most with it, on the question of what to do ...
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    21,89 €

  • Orca
    Arthur Herzog III
    Orca—the killer whale—is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. He hunts in packs, like a wolf. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge.He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance—across seas, across time, across all obstacles. 3 ...
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    19,46 €

  • IQ 83
    Arthur Herzog III
    'A world lapsing into imbecility…true 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 happen…Since 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...
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    20,59 €

  • The B.S. Factor
    Arthur Herzog III
    Fakery and hypocrisy in American communications are the subjects of this outspoken—and hilarious—book. 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 Com...
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    19,73 €

  • The Church Trap
    Arthur Herzog III
    Churches today are caught in a sociological trap. Parishioners want to keep comfortable status quo organization. Churchmen feel the pressure to modernize, to 'get where the action is.' This book is a provocative and zesty analysis of the problem. Dishonest to God? The churches have followed corporations in emphasizing fat figures and solid annual growth. If religion were sold l...
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    19,83 €

  • 17 Days
    Arthur Herzog III
    On December 28, 1992, two days before her tenth birthday, Katie Beers disappeared. She had left for an outing with a close family friend, John Esposito, and her whereabouts remained mysterious as the year drew to a close and her family grew frantic, fearing the worst. On January 13th, Katie was found alive in a secret, dungeon-like vault beneath Esposito’s Bay Shore, Long Islan...
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    23,05 €

  • Vesco
    Arthur Herzog III
    Today’s high-flying, high-rolling conglomarateurs and corporate raiders are a tame lot compared to their immediate predecessors. The most notorious of these is Robert Vesco, the Kingfish himself, who in 1973 fled the United States accused of looting $250 million from Investors Overseas Services. Now, in this riveting account, noted author Arthur Herzog tells the astounding stor...
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    27,47 €

  • Aries Rising
    Arthur Herzog III
    Philip Castle, newly separated from an adulterous wife and afflicted by middle-age doldrums, is a professor at the University of Chicago off to the Caribbean for a relaxing vacation. But life is far from restful. His first day on the island he watches a small plane crash, piloted by a man who looks disturbingly like him. He then meets Marie-Celeste-a fabulously beautiful and pr...
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    20,55 €

  • Heat
    Arthur Herzog III
    With uncanny skill, Arthur Herzog, best-selling author of The Swarm and Earthsound has blended fiction and fact into a terrifying and highly plausible story of the near future: a time when tensions mount as ecological doom beckons. Lawrence Pick, engineer, gathers startling evidence that the world’s weather may be rapidly changing, as a prelude to a fundamental alteration in gl...
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    18,37 €

  • l*s*i*t*t
    Arthur Herzog III
    A marvelously authentic novel of startling dimension that transforms the headlines of corporate wars and takeovers into the flesh and blood behind-the-scenes manipulations of a conglomerate head who begins a distinctly unfriendly corporate merger with an unwilling female C.E.O. In the world of 'white-knights,' arbitrageur middlemen playing both sides against the middle, of self...
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    20,60 €

  • McCarthy for President
    Arthur Herzog III
    McCarthy for President: the words recall an endeavor both brash and quixotic, unpredicted and unpredictable, a political campaign of permanent interest to voters and historians alike. Even in defeat the McCarthy movement racked up considerable success: the dramatic toppling of the President, pressure to initiate the Paris peace talks, the political involvement of most of the yo...
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    22,95 €

  • Earthsound
    Arthur Herzog III
    Your 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 loca...
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    16,18 €

  • Glad to Be Here
    Arthur III Herzog
    Returning in triumph to New York City to announce their victory, the revolutionaries, Bil and Alce, the very, very old Ralp Nadir and the very, very sexy Dian Toffler, find that no one has noticed the revolution, and no one cares. Everyone just wants to keep on jogging, safe and secure and uninvolved. Finally, the message of freedom breaks through the nearly fatal apathy of the...
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    18,32 €

  • Make Us Happy
    Arthur III Herzog
    A thousand years in the future, society is run by computers, with not a gesture or activity unnoticed by their all-seeing detectors. Spacescrapers-three miles high, 1,000 stories, 1,000 people per floor-house 1,000,000 people. The divorce rate having climbed to 100 percent, the computers have made marriage almost illegal but adultery compulsory, with a resultant zero divorce ra...
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    18,36 €

  • The Craving
    Arthur Herzog III
    IT WAS THE ANSWER TO A MILLION PRAYERS... It was the miracle everyone had waited for: Sovwren—incredibly nutritious, indescribably delicious. Millions of Americans went for it, lived on it, lost weight on it—became the slim, lithe creatures of their most glamorous dreams. They tasted happiness…until an appetite for something more began to stir. Small at first, it grew and becam...
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    20,53 €

  • The Swarm
    Arthur Herzog III
    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 bite...
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    17,14 €

  • The Woodchipper Murder
    Arthur Herzog III
    Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts’ disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn’t skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: 'If anything happens to me don’t think it was an accident.' Helle Crafts was last seen on November...
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    20,53 €