In addition to presenting the complete text of Hardy's famous novel, this volume provides students with contextualizing historical essays by John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Mona Caird and a selection of modern critical essays. Additional works by Hardy include "On the Western Circuit" and the poem [...]
With her acclaimed novels "Harvest" and "Life Support, " Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, in a new blockbuster, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak[...]
A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments -- space -- in this acclaimed blockbuster of medical suspense from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of "Harvest, Life Support, " and "Bloodstream."
"Gravity"
Dr. Emma Wat[...]
Abby DiMatteo, immersed in her second year as a surgical resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital, is elated when the hospital's elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But soon she must make a critical decision that jeopardizes her entire career.
A car crash victim's[...]
Tess Gerritsen joined the front ranks of thriller writers with her "New York Times" bestseller, "Harvest." Now she weaves utter medical authenticity into another novel of gripping suspense, as a dedicated woman doctor probes too deeply into the cause of a lethal, mystifying outbreak.
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love.
Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity [...]
"Guilty until proven innocent . . . - "Miranda Wood arrives home to a dark, cold cottage - and a man, stabbed to death, lying in her bed. Miranda is the obvious suspect, and looks even guiltier when her bail is paid by an anonymous donor. As Miranda fights to clear her name, she unearths a murky his[...]
Every inch and component of your home is filled with an invisible life force and unique magical energy. "Magical Housekeeping" teaches readers how to sense, change, channel, and direct these energies to create harmony in their homes, joy in their hearts, and success in all areas of their lives. In t[...]
This gem of a book teaches you how to become a fountain of good energy and how to use that energy to increase your intuition and magical power. It also reveals how you can establish lifelong habits and perspectives that allow you to live happily and attract all good things. Popular author and column[...]
Rediscover a magic that is raw and real, but nearly forgotten - the magic and mysticism of Canaan. Anyone with a connection to Christianity or Judaism can claim some measure of spiritual inheritance from Canaan, a culture miscast as the villains of the Bible. This engaging guide, written by an autho[...]
Bring harmony and balance to every area of your life with this gentle and loving guide to beautiful living and personal evolution. Popular author Tess Whitehurst offers a totally unique and fun magical system for reconnecting with your bliss, also known as your innate life force energy. Weaving toge[...]
Interweaving New Agetechniques with Pagan sensibilities, Tess Whitehurstincorporates diverse modalities such as colourenergy, symbol interpretation, and visualization.Use the power of your own mind, body, and spiritas well as crystals, herbs, and flowers to achievepositive conditions in your life. O[...]
Tess Noncoir? is a bestselling fantasy writer. She's also become a demon fighter trained in martial arts by the Sisterhood of the Celestial Blade Warriors and partnered with a mischievous imp named Scrap. Together they must find a young Native American girl who has disappeared-before she falls victi[...]
Tess Noncoire, bestselling fantasy writer turned martial arts demon hunter, is back for another rollicking adventure. Trouble has followed Tess to her own doorstep, and now she and her sidekick Scrap must protect her mother from a demon she's fallen in love with while at the same time fighting off a[...]
Victor Holland comes flying out of the night into the path of Catherine Weaver's car. Horrified by his broken body, Cathy rushes him to the hospital, praying for his survival. But, her nightmare had just begun. Because Victor is running for his life, and their shocking encounter has put Cathy in mor[...]
"Guilty--Until Proven Innocent..."Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover--until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife.Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even guiltier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor[...]
"Your day starts by being jilted at the altar. It's about to get a lot worse."If Nina Cormier's wedding had taken place, she would be dead. But after the bride was left at the altar, the church stood empty when the bomb exploded. It wasn't until a stranger tried to run her off the road that Nina rea[...]
The cuisine of the Middle East has always had its devotees, and eating at Lebanese, Syrian, Turkish or Greek restaurants has delighted many people in recent years. But relatively few have tackled these dishes in their own kitchens. Now, with "The Complete Middle East Cookbook," anyone can produce de[...]
Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters, Jaccottet has published more than a dozen[...]
Fly Away, Pigeon tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative strands, recounting the history of three generations o[...]