At the prime of her life, accomplished pianist Marcia Kleinman is forced to make some heart-wrenching decisions. She has a difficult husband, a difficult mother and her little boy, Max, has been diagnosed with a rare liver disease that will likely require a liver transplant. As Maxs health declines, Marcia is faced with challenges testing her spirit, her resolve and her sense of self. Will she donate a portion of her own liver to Max? Will her husband, Michael, support her efforts to save ...

We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings together perspectives from art history, visual science studies, science and technology studies, socio...

A killer's game is just beginning...NOTHING TO FEAR is the third fantastic thriller in the Chicago series, by Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose.'A pulse pounding tale that has it all: suspense, action, and a very hunky private investigator' COSMOPOLITAN'Rose's well-crafted story sets pulses pounding and pages turning' BOOKPAG...

Ethan Riggs is in love with a woman he can't have, and it's driving him out of his mind.She's his best friend's secret crush and his adopted family's adored baby sister, which locks her in the look-but-don't-touch category. It was easy to deny his attraction while she was away at veterinary school. But now that she's back, the temptation's growing stronger, and a man can only resist for so long before he finally claims what he wants.Doctor Louise Phillips doesn't have time ...

A Clouds and Rain StoryFlynn Tomlinson has drifted for several years, working odd jobs when he needs the money and moving on when he doesn’t. He’s content with his freestyle life, not tied down, not responsible for anyone but himself. Then he comes across a Help Wanted ad in a post office in Idaho and meets Gable Sutton. Gable can’t pay Flynn until he sells his horses, but a serious accident has left him unable to work his ranch alone.Working with ...

If you knew you may die soon, what choices would you make?From the bestselling author of HERE, HOME, HOPE and ALL THE DIFFERENCE . . .Jennifer Benson has it all: a successful career, a perfect husband, two kids and abundant friendships. The only problem is she may be dying. IN THE MIRROR is the realistic love story about a woman facing a deadly illness, and her loves past and present. It's a story that unfo...

Heaven Sent is the sixth, final book in the exciting The Mediator series by Meg Cabot.Suze should be on cloud nine. She's going out with Jesse, the most gorgeous ghost of all time. But her fellow mediator, Paul Slater, wants Suze all to himself, and he's hell-bent on making the happy couple ancient history.When creepy Paul threatens to travel back in time and stop Jesse from dying, Suze is seriously spooked. Her boyfriend has a ghost of a chance to live again – but...

Sometimes love doesn't play by the rules.Rebecca Lapp is a devout follower of her Amish faith and a firm believer in the Ordnung, the set of rules that govern her life in the tiny Pennsylvania town she calls home. When she meets Dylan Mahoney, however, the rules go out the window. During Rebecca's rumspringa—the four-year period during which Amish teenagers decide whether to join the church or leave it for the outside world—Dylan, a film buff and aspiring movie critic, shows Rebecc...

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. But when Jack's father takes him out rowing on a lake and tells his son that he's gay, nothing will ever be normal again. Out of Jack's struggle to redefine 'family', comes a work of enormous humour, charm and resonance, the most convincing, funny and insightful novel about adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye.

A mother will do anything to protect her baby, shielding it from the dangers of humans, animals and themselves! These stories of women suffering their worst nightmares to keep their babies out of peril will expose your natural protective instincts, and have you checking on your loved ones to be sure they're safe and sound.Stories include:• Baby On My Doorstep• Campground Kidnapping• Switched At Birth• “I’m Protecting A Killer’s Baby”• A Cop T...

Despite George's best efforts to rid himself of the curse of the burps, those magical and pesky belches are still following him everywhere he goes - even on his class trip to the science museum. If circulating through a human heart or sliding down the nostril of a giant nose sound wild, just wait until the burps attack! The sixth book in the George Brown, Class Clown series promises young readers, boys and girls alike, a whole lot of laughs.

One windy April afternoon, a young woman bicycles alone along a stretch of Iowa highway. She's pedaling hard, hurrying to get home in time for dinner . . .Alex Voormann is a cerebral thirty-year-old archaeologist married to the woman of his dreams--a beautiful, ambitious botanist named Isabel. When Isabel, an organ donor, is killed by a reckless driver, Alex reluctantly consents to donate her heart. Janet Corcoran is a young, headstrong mother of two, an art teache...