Born in Calcutta and schooled in Poughkeepsie, Madison, Manhattan, beautiful, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind as she journeys back to India. But the Calcutta she finds on her return — seething with strikes, riots, and unrest — is vastly different from the place she remembers. In this taut, ironic tale of colliding cultures, […]
In this book, children from all around the world remember their past lives, and eminent scientists explain how many of these childrens stories have been followed up to verify whether their statements have any foundation in fact. Incredibly, when subjected to scientific investigation, childrens memories about their past lives can invariably be confirmed in every […]
Popular television reporter Hallie Moore seems to have it all. Shes young, single, attractive, and her signature “best of” segments — Hallies Comets — seem primed to send her career sky-high. Yet Hallie is haunted by the unsolved rape and murder of her identical twin, Heather. On the first anniversary of the brutal crime, Hallie […]
In AD 60, Boudica, war leader of the Eceni, led her people in a final bloody revolt against the occupying armies of Rome. It was the culmination of nearly twenty years of resistance against an occupying force that sought to crush a vibrant, complex civilization and replace it with the laws, taxes and slavery of […]
The Beautiful Disaster phenomenon continues in the first heart-pounding new adult romance in The Maddox Brothers series. Fiercely independent Camille “Cami” Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. […]
Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield set off on a road trip to the mountains of Colorado, ready for five days of skiing and the best Christmas break of their lives. Scott Culver is a guy with a broken-down car and a face to die for, whom the twins pick up on the side of the road. […]
Marion and Shiva stone are born from the unexpected union of sister Mary joseph,a gentle malayali nurse, and Thomas stone, a brilliant, intense British surgeon. A union somysterious that no one at the missing hospital in addis ababa, where the two worked in such tandem ?? not even Thomas ?? can quite fathom how the […]
Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a […]
Grand jurors Susan Linwood and David Clark have no idea what they??re getting into when they decide to help two defendants indicted by their grand jury. What they think is a frameup involving Chinatown rivals turns out to have far wider implications, and to be far more sinister ?? and deadly. Grand juries are secret […]
How and why does each of us grow up to be the person we are? What role do genes play in shaping our behaviour and personalities? Are our characters fixed, or can we change as adults? How does early experience affect our sexual preferences? Design for a Life explains the science of behavioural development – […]
One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison??s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing […]