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The Unthinkable
Ever wonder whether you would survive a disaster? Amanda Ripley discusses how science and real-life stories can help you answer that question. Also, Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher thriller. And Guillaume Canet on adapting Harlan Coben’s novel for the silver screen. Plus, an epidemiologist who believes that the billions spent on preventing AIDS isn’t going to the people who need it most.
Tell No One
Guillaume Canet discusses adapting and directing Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel, Tell No One, for the silver screen. The thriller has already received critical and commercial success in France. It’s the story of a pediatrician who, still devastated by the savage murder of his wife, receives an anonymous email that leads him to believe she may still be alive. “Tell No One” opens July 2 at Cinema 1,2,3 and the Landmark Sunshine Cinema.
Lee Child’s 12th Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher mystery books are enormously popular. The 12th novel in the series, Nothing to Lose, finds the ex-military policeman uncovering a plan that involves the war in Iraq and an apocalyptic sect bent on ushering in the end of the world.
Event: Lee Child will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, July 10 at 8 pm
Borders Books
461 Park Avenue (at 57th Street)
International AIDS Prevention Efforts
The Bush administration has committed 45 billion taxpayer dollars to international AIDS programs. And while there is more funding for AIDS programming than ever before, epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani believes that the money doesn’t go to the people who need it most. Her new book is The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS.
Would You Survive?
Most people have fantasized about what it would be like to go through a disaster and whether they would survive. Using respected science and real stories, Amanda Ripley illuminates these two questions in The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why.
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