With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the preeminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.John Fleming offe...

Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career.With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and e...

Super-spy Eric Swan is back! This time he must face not only his most cunning enemy yet, but also stare down his most crippling fears.The brilliant scientist known as God Maker, the mother of the Q2 program, has been kidnapped.She's held by a psychotic former Q2 operative who went dark, but has now resurfaced with a sinister plan.Swan must track down God Maker and her captor, while fighting back the fear that he, too, is damaged beyond hope...

To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited.Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wife's death bearing them in 1...

Eric Swan, the spy who can never die, is on the hunt.He’s chasing down the most destructive hacker of all time. This shadowy figure, known only as Ceti, is laying the groundwork for toppling the world’s economy.But few people know Ceti’s true identity—and those who do have a habit of turning up dead.Swan finds himself in a battle against time and a distorted public image. How can he prevent a villain from creating international chaos when p...

A disturbing, darkly funny fictionalization of the life of Fred A. Leuchter, the garage tinkerer turned execution authority who became a darling of the neo-Nazi movement, and subject of the Errol Morris documentary, Mr. Death.He comes to fix your photocopier, but really, Fred’s an inventor. At night, he goes to work. He has goals, ambitions, and when offered the task of building a better electric chair, he jumps at the chance. People have to die—he believe...

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Written in 1958, it was first published in 1959. The story centres on the investigation by the British Secret Service operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot ...

The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in 1962. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book. Fleming wrote a prologue to the novel giving Michel credit as a co-author.

Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published in 1955. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax, an ex-Nazi now secretly working for the Soviets.

***Octopussy and Other Short Stories***is the final book in Wildside Press's "James Bond" series, collecting all of Ian Fleming's Bond short stories.

Although the need for improved care for dying patients is widely recognized and frequently discussed, few books address the needs of the physicians, nurses, social workers, therapists, hospice team members, and pastoral counselors involved in care. Care of the Dying Patient contains material not found in other sources, offering advice and solutions to anyone—professional caregiver or family member—confronted with incurable illness and death. Its authors have lectured and published...

It begins with just a few people falling ill. Another flu virus that spreads around the globe. And then the reports begin that people are dying…When most of the world's population is wiped out, a handful of survivors are left to pick up the pieces.Cities become graveyards. Technology becomes largely obsolete. Mankind must start again…1: Dark Rain by Ken BentleyIntroducing: Tim Treloar as Russell, Bernard Holley as RidleyMonths after the plague, storms ...