From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia.In the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, there lived a family with nine siblings, the youngest a girl named Barb. As the older children headed off to college and started their lives, only Barb was home to ...

In the shadow of Watergate and the Vietnam War, Gerald Ford’s presidency has long been dismissed as little more than an interim administration. Yet the administration and its British counterparts worked to manage economic crises, Cold War tensions, and international flashpoints, while also harnessing cultural diplomacy to sustain transatlantic partnership. Drawing on newly declassified archival sources and fresh historical analysis, The Ford Administration and Anglo-American Relations

"Superior noirish PI mystery, deftly blending action, sleuthing, and prewar New York" -BOOKLIFE (Editor's Pick)A FRESH INTERPRETATION OF NOIR, BORROWING FROM THE TRADITION OF RAYMOND CHANDLER AND DASHIELL HAMMETT.It is 1936, and the world, still in the grip of the Depression, is preparing for another war. But for Jack Kerrigan, a down-at-heel New York private investigator, things look up when Lola Deshaines walks unannounced into his office. She wa...

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1903 . . .After twenty years, the French attempt to dig a Panama Canal is at last faltering—and President Theodore Roosevelt smells an opportunity. But before he can send in American gunboats, he'll need eyes and ears on the ground in Panama. But whose?Roosevelt's Secretary of State, John Hay, schemes up the perfect solution. He'll ask two of his best young spies—Max Bellefonte and Hannah Black—to make a honeymoon trip to Panama. There they can observe and...

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel comes a spine-chilling graphic novel featuring nine gripping stories based on real events—including four all-new, never-before-shared tales—of the terrors that hide inside us allHave you ever wondered what you’re truly capable of? Or been afraid of what you might do when no one is looking?If so, you have experienced the terror wi...

A gorgeously illustrated edition of Robert Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, featuring some of his most famous works such as “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.Robert Frost is one of America’s most celebrated poets. Known for pastoral imagery and deep th...

Gotham Express magazine founder and editor Jonathan Daly had it all. Talent, money, fame, charm, good looks, and success. But he also had a huge ego, tremendous arrogance, a volcanic temper, and the ability to alienate even those closest to him. So there is no shortage of suspects when Jonathan is brutally murdered. And no shortage of danger when Jonathan's estranged spouse and widow, Ellen Foley, is threatened with the same fate.It's up to former Gotham Express star investigative ...

International trade is undergoing profound transformation. The liberalization paradigm that characterized much of the twentieth century has given way to renewed tariff conflicts, systemic disruptions caused by war and geopolitical rivalry, and mounting pressures to align trade with sustainability objectives. These shifts underscore the urgent need to re-examine the intellectual and policy foundations of global commerce in light of twenty-first century realities. This book offers a comprehe...

This book critically examines the development and operation of administrative justice in the UK.Every day, people have millions of interactions with government and public services. Administrative justice is concerned with the fairness of these interactions and the redress mechanisms people can use when things go wrong. Administrative justice is a large and expanding part of the legal system and of governmental activity in the United Kingdom. It inc...

Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He’s looking into a claim over the death of one Al Lund. But something about Lund’s death doesn’t quite make sense.Lund was a common mechanic living a quiet life. Yet he was murdered by a professional killer. Eggar suspects that Lund might have once been a criminal. He has to travel all over the Alliance and dig up the past to sort out why Lund met a violent end.

Originally published in 1988, Effective Psychotherapy: The Silent Dialogue, reissued here with a new foreword by the author’s son, explores various debates within psychotherapy. The book offers a transtheoretical psychotherapy seeking to explain its covert processes – its “silent dialogue” – together with an accompanying operative strategy and set of technical principles. The attempt is made to define the patient’s dis-ease, to describe its etiology, to outline a remedial procedur...

This book argues that while the interwar period is generally seen as a period of Evangelical withdrawal from American public life, Evangelical leaders of varying sub-groups remained acutely aware of foreign affairs, speaking on US foreign affairs to large groups of congregants and beyond. Contributing to the spread of themes that emerged during this era regarding concerns of anti-Semitism, skepticism of the League of Nations, and preoccupation on biblical prophecy seen in current events. S...