A true crime memoir of international abduction, miraculous rescue, and the long road from trauma to forgiveness and redemption.At seven years old, Lauren Burns was abducted by her father and taken from her home in Texas. She was flown to the Middle East and thrust into a life she did not recognize with a future she could not understand. What followed was an extraordinary international rescue by a small team of former military operatives and a mother who, refusing t...

Mapping Medical Modernity explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Tokyo, a city undergoing rapid transformation from the seat of power of the Tokugawa shoguns of the Edo period to the capital of a modern nation-state and its expanding empire in the Meiji period. Tracing the development of institutions and policies designed to improve medical care and public health in a dense urban environment, Susan L. Burns e...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Make a onetime awkward lecture into a healthy ongoing conversation.As Christian parents, we want to guard our children from the flood of sexual imagery and inuendo, confusion around identity, and downright misinformation that pervades our culture. But where and when do we have those conversations with our kids? And how do we reduce the anxiety and pressure most of us feel when we do?Don't Stress Talking Sex presents an engaging relational model tha...

Haunted by a dark secret, Sebastian Rockwood, Earl of Melton, values emotional control above all else. Unlike his younger siblings, Sebastian never yields to the famed Reckless Rockwoods family trait of impulsive, rash behavior. But his prized self-control crumbles when he spontaneously outbids a debauched libertine to save Helen Rivenall from a horrible fate. Never has the risk to his heart been so great as his treasured willpower slowly gives way to temptation, and he discovers nothing c...

Penelope Presley has suffered through unspeakable loss and scandal. Forced to live under her cruel Grandfather's thumb, she finds herself both relieved and frightened when he tells her she will be marrying the man known as the Beast of Yorkshire.Having already lost two wives and a fiancée, Duncan Taggart, Duke of Yorkshire, is desperate for an heir. To have an heir, he must have a wife, but who is ever going to willingly marry a man with a reputation such as his? He takes ...

**A teenager’s idyllic summer of freedom is shaded by the growing weight of responsibility and a recognition of the fallibility of the adults around him.Actor and director Ed Burns returns with the continuing fictionalized saga of growing up on Marlboro Road.**In this his second Marlboro Road novel, Edward Burns continues the tale, loosely based on his own childhood. The Guardian called Burns’s first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, “keenly felt…vivid…a te...

The only book on preserving you'll ever need! A vast and ambitious hardbound cookbook featuring over 150 preserving recipes for drinks, condiments, salads, sweets, and more.Cultured draws on culinary traditions from around the world, employing techniques such as fermentation, pickling, dehydrating, salting, and sugaring. The recipes are organized by timescales—from quick pickles ready in a few hours to savory pastes that take weeks to ferment but can survi...

Claire Mercer comes home from France expecting to return to her husband and her old life. Instead, the government says she has been dead for eleven months.Her driver's licence is cancelled. Her bank records are closed. A death certificate exists in her name. Her husband insists he does not know her—and says his wife, Claire Mercer, is buried in a cemetery.Then the impossible becomes worse.The body in Claire's grave was identified with her fingerprints, her dental re...

A reverse May/December romance with a strong, independent, older heroine pitted against a hero who might be younger but is as sexy, mature, powerful, and alpha as they come.Quentin Blackwell, Earl of Devlyn, refused to marry a woman carrying another man's child. The price he paid for spurning the promiscuous youngest daughter of Baron Townsend was his fortune. Now, the baron's oldest daughter has come to him with an unexpected proposition. Devlyn seizes the chance ...

A suffering planet. The expansion of the human species. A corrupt elite. The truth is not what it seems.Earth is failing under the weight of human neglect. Nuclear fallout scars the land, famine spreads like wildfire, and rising PH levels choke the remaining crops. As the world suffers, The Collective—the ruthless titans controlling every major industry—tighten their grip, determined to preserve their own power at any cost. Under Anagen, a technology granting extended life to the c...

Lord Edgar Ashenbert and his fairy doctor, Lydia Carlton, continue to plan for their wedding. Unfortunately, it seems as though the road to the ceremony will be a long one, beset by troubles. While Edgar wishes for Lydia to think of nothing but their upcoming union, she struggles to do so. As he works to hide a terrible secret from her, she becomes increasingly suspicious. Meanwhile, the Carltons receive a pair of visitors from the Scottish Highlands. Not only do they claim that there is c...