Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack […]
I??m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I??m in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I??ll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I??ll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I??ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I??ll eventually […]
Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowdens brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart […]
When Belle Chamberlain offers to take her father??s place as his prisoner, Prince Adam Katsaros strikes a deal. Deeply scarred by the accident that claimed his wife, Adam isolated himself in his forbidding castle. But Belle??s innocent beauty could redeem his reputation as he reclaims his throne?? He??ll release her father if Belle poses as […]
Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless–bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated […]
Author of the viral medium piece, ??poor and traumatized at Harvard, ? due Quach shares her calm clarity program to show readers how to deal with toxic stress and adversity. We often don??t realize how much control we have over our thoughts, feelings and actions on some days, the most minor irritation can upset us, […]
From its first arrival in Britain with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and revenge are the cursed swords constant companions. From an election-rigging scandal in 13th century Venice to the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, as the Sword of Shame passes from owner to owner in this compelling collection of interlinked mysteries, […]
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta??despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN??to offer her services pro bono to New York City??s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a […]
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasnt married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in […]
Baali and Sugreeva of the Vana Nara tribe were orphan brothers who were born in abject poverty and grew up as slaves like most of their fellow tribesmen. They were often mocked as the vanaras, the monkey men. Sandwiched between the never-ending war between the Deva tribes in the north and the Asura tribes in […]