Munich Airport: the brilliant new novel by Greg Baxter. An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man's sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvatio[...]
An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man's sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation. Three weeks later, the man, his elderly father, and a[...]
There's something about a cowboy ...Hard-hearted rancher Jared Cameron was a mystery, yet bookseller Sara couldn't avoid him. Captivated by her spirit, Jared hotly pursued the plain Jane. Until their relationship thrust sweet Sara into Jared's hidden world...When rancher Hawk McKenna entered her res[...]
"I remember Sarah asking me, when I'd just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. 'Hair, ' I blurted. 'He has to have hair.'"
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously po[...]
Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron's visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na'vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of what we saw on the screen, from the possibility of travel to other[...]
The 10th edition of the classic textbook of occupational diseases.
The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. That man, Reid Malenfant, h[...]
A mysterious glowing orb appears over the region of central Asia, ripping the Earth into a kaleidoscopic patchwork of conflicting eras of the past, present, and future, mingling UN peacekeepers from the year 2037 with nineteenth-century British soldiers, the Mongol army of Genghis Khan, and the forc[...]
Now available in paperback--an awe-inspiring epic that covers an astonishing 165 million years, and dramatizes the amazing sweep of humankind's evolution from the far past to the distant future.[...]
Discovering he has a twin sister after the death of his father, George Poole confronts difficult feelings about his family when he learns his sister has been raised by an enigmatic religious group that is promoting a questionable agenda beneath the streets of Rome. Reprint.[...]
The mind-bending study of human evolution that began with Coalescent continues with a journey to the far future, a world in which a far-flung human race has perfected war as a way of life as they confront the deadly threat of an implacable alien foe. Reprint.[...]
In the third volume of the Destiny's Children trilogy, which began with Coalescent and Exultant, human beings from half a million years in the future come back in time to make contact with a near future generation of humankind. Reprint.[...]
From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.
The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delig[...]
Over the years, Washington has been a major player in the politics of the Middle East. From Iran in the 1950s, to the Gulf War of 1991, to the devastation of contemporary Iraq, US policy has had a profound impact on the domestic affairs of the region. This book examines the interconnected nature of [...]
For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with Down Syndrome, editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert co[...]
"From Stephen Baxter, master of science fiction and national bestselling author of "Bronze Summer," comes an all-new Doctor Who adventure... "
Resilience. Remembrance. Restoration.
Whatever the cost.
Hurtling through a vortex beyond time and space is a police box that's not a police box[...]
The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth--a colony plagued by problems. Equipment failures and thefts are on the rise. Children tell stories of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. And some of the younger[...]
View our feature on Stephen Baxter's "Weaver."The concluding volume of the acclaimed Time's Tapestry series.
In the early days of WWII, the Nazis have a secret plan, far grander than simply subjugating an enemy. And three people are caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the fabric of the tap[...]