Immersive stories transporting readers to past eras, great empires, and pivotal historical moments.
Freya Berry
1932. Emily Blackwood, a skilled taxidermist, is summoned to a crumbling castle in the Scottish Highlands to catalog the legendary collection of Heinrich Vogel. As she unravels Vogel's cryptic diary and preserved specimens, she uncovers the chilling fate of two Victorian women who vanished into the estate's labyrinthine walls.
Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789. When the Kennebec River freezes over, a body is discovered entombed in the ice. Martha Ballard, an independent midwife and healer, is summoned to examine the corpse and record the evidence in her diary. A murder investigation unfolds in a tight-knit winter community where Martha must defy town magistrates to uncover the truth.
Bonnie Garmus
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with her mind.
Maggie O'Farrell
Florence, the mid-sixteenth century. Lucrezia de' Medici is thrust into a sudden dynastic marriage to the Duke of Ferrara, discovering that behind his cultivated courtly refinement lies a sinister and lethal intent.
Pip Williams
Set during the height of the women's suffrage movement and with the Great War looming, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a hidden history lost between the lines. Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.
Pip Williams
Growing up beneath the sorting table of the original Oxford English Dictionary in Victorian Oxford, young Esme collects discarded slips of words relating to women's daily labor and domestic lives.
Emma Donoghue
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders: Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney.
Allison Vale
At the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era. But only 111 of these blue plaques commemorate women. Over the centuries, London has been home to thousands of truly remarkable women who have made significant and lasting impacts on every aspect of modern life: from politics and social reform, to the Arts, medicine, science, technology and sport. Many of those women went largely unnoticed, even during their own lifetimes, going about their lives quietly but with courage, conviction, skill and compassion. Others were fearless, strident trail-blazers. Many lived in an era when their achievements were given a male name, clouding the capabilities of women in any field outside of the home or field. A Woman Lived Here shines a spotlight on some of these forgotten women to redress the balance. The stories on these pages commemorate some of the most remarkable of London's women, who set out to make their world a little richer, and in doing so, left an indelible mark on ours.
Madeline Miller
Banished by Zeus to the solitary island of Aiaia, the daughter of the titan Helios discovers she possesses the power of witchcraft, taming wild beasts and navigating treacherous encounters with Odysseus, Daedalus, and the Minotaur.
Amy Bloom
Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as "first friend" is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.--Provided by Publisher.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself.
Dr. Jack C. J. Wereldsma
Ook Rotterdam is, zoals elke Middeleeuwse stad, een ommuurde vesting geweest. Waar de muren moesten voorkomen dat vijanden binnendrongen - wat niet altijd lukte - en de poorten 's avonds werden gesloten om de bevolking tot de ochtend te vrijwaren van onwelkom bezoek. Maar liefst dertien poorten hebben op enig moment de grenzen van de stad gemarkeerd. Wereldsma schreef eerder het feuilleton 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 jaar feuilletons 2002-2012'. Deze publicatie vertelt over de (bouw)geschiedenis van de Grote Sint Laurenskerk en over onder meer de graftomben van Witte Corneliszoon de With en Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. Daarnaast verdiept Wereldsma zich in reisverslagen, gedichten en zelfs romans van de hand van meer of minder beroemde binnen- en buitenlandse bezoekers. Rotterdam, like every medieval city, has also been a walled fortress. Where the walls had to prevent enemies from entering - which did not always work - and the gates were closed at night to protect the population until the morning from unwelcome visitors. No less than thirteen gates have at any time marked the boundaries of the city. Wereldsma previously wrote the serial 'Laurenskerk in Rotterdam: 10 years of feuilletons 2002-2012'. This publication tells about the (building) history of the Grote Sint Laurenskerk and about the tombs of Witte Corneliszoon de With and Egbert Cornelis Kortenaer. In addition, Wereldsma explores travel reports, poems and even novels by more or less famous visitors from the Netherlands and abroad.
Sarah Perry
Set in 1890s England, The Essex Serpent follows London widow Cora Seaborne. Following the death of her abusive husband, Cora decamps to rural Essex with an interest in natural history. When rumors spread that a mythical winged monster has returned from the coastal marshes, Cora forms an intense bond with the local parish vicar Will Ransome.
Margaret A. Oppenheimer
"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who became Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. Yet by the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, a New York mansion and Saratoga Springs summer home, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she acquired a fortune from her first husband--a French merchant--and almost lost it to her second--notorious vice president Aaron Burr. Divorcing Burr amid lurid charges of adultery, Jumel lived on to the age of 90, astutely managing her property and public persona. After her death, a titanic battle over her estate went all the way to the United States Supreme Court--twice. Family members told of a woman who earned the gratitude of Napoleon I and shone at the courts of Louis XVIII and Charles X. Claimants to her estate painted a different picture: of a prostitute, the mother of George Washington's illegitimate son, a wife who defrauded her husband and perhaps even plotted his death. Eliza Jumel's real story--so unique that it surpasses any invention--has yet to be told, until now. "--
Kristin Hannah
Two sisters in France embark on their own dangerous paths toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France, celebrating the resilience of women during World War II.
Anthony Doerr
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. In a German mining town, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up enchanted by a crude radio he finds that brings him news and stories from far off places.
Jean-Marie Martin
"Ce volume présente la réédition de trente articles, contributions à des colloques et à d’autres volumes collectifs, publiés entre 1980 et 2009, et rassemblés de façon thématique, indépendamment de la date de leur première publication. Ils sont regroupés en deux sections ; la première (nos 1-12) a pour objet l’Italie méridionale byzantine et l’action de l’Empire et de l’Église byzantine dans cette région ; la seconde (nos 13-30) est consacrée à certains aspects de l’histoire médiévale de l’Italie méridionale, lombarde et normande aussi bien que byzantine, et regroupe des textes qui concernent l’économie (nos 13-18), la société – du droit personnel aux pratiques sociales (nos 19-22), certains éléments institutionnels (nos 23-25), enfin quelques aspects de l’histoire religieuse – du culte des images à l’hagiographie et aux cartulaires (nos 26-30). On s’est efforcé de mettre à jour la bibliographie et, parfois, de mettre en perspective certains points qui ont fait l’objet de recherches ultérieures."--
Eric Shanower
Graphic Novel. The Trojan plain fills with death as Achaean forces clash in blood with the Trojan army. In the city of Troy, Pandarus pulls the strings to put Troilus in Cressida's bed. But when Cressida is ripped away to the enemy camp, how far will Troilus fight to recover her?
Jennifer Chiaverini
"New York Times" bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini's compelling historical novel unveils the private lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln through the perspective of the First Lady's most trusted confidante and friend, her dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. In a life that spanned nearly a century and witnessed some of the most momentous events in American history, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was born a slave. A gifted seamstress, she earned her freedom by the skill of her needle, and won the friendship of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln by her devotion. A sweeping historical novel, *Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker* illuminates the extraordinary relationship the two women shared, beginning in the hallowed halls of the White House during the trials of the Civil War and enduring almost, but not quite, to the end of Mrs. Lincoln's days.
Jordan Mechner
Martin isn't exactly the most steadfast or pious knight, but he does manage to escape when the king of France and the pope massacre the Templars and steal their legendary treasure. In fact, Martin rises to the occasion. He rallies a small force of surviving Templars, and together the band hatches an audacious plan ... to steal the world's greatest treasure out from under the king's nose. A Templar Knight returns from the Crusades to find his love married and discovers that others are out to destroy the Order and steal their treasure. Templars band together to keep their treasure safe from the corrupt officials and the French king.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Born in 1800 into extraordinary wealth, Alma Whittaker inherits her father's passion for the natural sciences. An independent woman with a voracious mind, she becomes an extraordinary botanist specializing in mosses, tracing the mysteries of evolution and desire across nineteenth-century Philadelphia, London, and the South Pacific.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Born in 1800 to an arrogant botanical tycoon, brilliant bryologist Alma Whittaker spends her life classifying the forgotten microcosm of mosses while grappling with the unyielding mysteries of human passion and natural selection.
Nancy Peacock
"Drunken Bride, Texas, April 1875. Writing furiously in a jail cell in the days leading up to his hanging, former slave Persimmon "Persy" Wilson's last wish is to set the record straight. He may be guilty, but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his master's wife. Fifteen years earlier, Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking young house slave named Chloe. Persy and Chloe arrive bound together in chains, a circumstance out of which is forged a perilous love affair and dreams of escape. But on the eve of the Union Army's takeover of New Orleans, an outraged and jealous Master Wilson shoots Persy and flees with Chloe and his other slaves to Texas. So begins Persy's epic journey, a sweeping tale that takes readers from the sweltering exhaustion of plantation life to the final battles of the Civil War, from the isolation and bitter cold of the Texas frontier to the brutal yet life-affirming ways of the Comanche warriors who show Persy what it means to control one's own destiny. Facing unimaginable hardship in his quest to find Chloe -- the sole silver lining of an awful past -- Persimmon gradually regains the dignity and selfhood that years of brutal subjugation had eroded. Perfect for fans of Cold Mountain and The Invention of Wings, this is the moving testimony of a man whose remarkable odyssey reveals the power of love and the depth of the human spirit." -- From publisher's description. 1860. Persimmon "Persy" Wilson is sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape Wilson, their owner, who claimed Chloe as his concubine. On the eve of the Union Army's attack on New Orleans, Wilson shot Persy, and fled with Chloe and his other slaves to Texas. Determined to reunite with his lost love, Persy's odyssey sees him captured by the Comanche; teaches him the meaning and the price of freedom; and eventually ends with him sitting in a jail cell in Drunken Bride, Texas, accused of the kidnapping and rape of Wilson's wife.
James M. Morris, Patricia M. Kearns
The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy covers U.S. Naval developments, personnel, and engagements from the colonial times to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on people, places, events and other terminology of the Navy. --from publisher description
Anne Perry
In Edinburgh, Nurse Hester Latterly, a veteran of the Crimean War, is accused of murder after the rich woman she was escorting in a train dies from an overdose of medicine. It's a setup, of course, and Inspector Monk rushes to the rescue. By the author of The Hyde Park Headsman.
Amor Towles
On New Year's Eve 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent meets handsome banker Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz dive, catapulting her into the glittering orbit of New York's aristocratic upper crust.
Madeline Miller
A lyrical, breathtaking reimagining of Homer's Iliad told through the eyes of Patroclus, an exiled prince whose devoted love for the demigod Achilles leads both men to the blood-soaked shores of Troy.
Harvey Sheldon
"Harvey Sheldon music historian presents the Golden Age of Pop Music, collection of documented stories featuring big swing bands and the greatest pop stars and love songs of the 30's, 40's, 50's and classic gems from the early 60's. This was an era of incredible stars, fantastic voices, beautiful harmonies, and magical melodies. It was the music we'll always remember -- it was the Golden Age of Pop Music! This collection of historical biographies and history features the true legends of this era -- Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Johnny Mathis, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, The Mills Brothers, Al Martino, to name a few. The big swing bands of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Ray Anthony, Les Brown, Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Billy May, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Neal Hefti and lots more. Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, and the cast of Your Hit Parade. Many artists made their mark with pop standards, particularly interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Vie Damone, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tonne, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gorme, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, Billy Eckstine, Al Jolson, Nat King Cole, and Perry Como. Bring the nostalgia of the Golden Age Of Pop Music and the magical charisma of its performers and the history of authentic of The Golden Age of Pop Music!"--P. [4] of cover.
John Fea
Explores the question of whether America was founded as a Christian nation, discussing what it means to think historically, examining the history of the idea that the United States is a Christian nation, exploring the relationship between Christianity and the coming of the American Revolution, and investigating the specific religious beliefs of the founders.
Jill Pitkeathley
In Dearest Cousin Jane, an enchanting new novel that draws on historical fact, Jill Pitkeathley paints a luminous portrait of the true-life cousin of a literary legend—from her flirtatious younger years to her profound influence on one of the world's most beloved authors.Free-spirited and seductive—outrageous, precocious, and a well-known flirt—Countess Eliza de Feuillide has an unquenchable thirst for life and a glamorous air that captivates everyone around her. Rumored to have been born of a mad love affair between her mother and the great Warren Hastings of the East India Company, Eliza sees the world as her playground—filled with grand galas, theater, and romance—and she will let nothing hold her down. Even tragedy cannot dim her enthusiasm. Losing her only child at an early age and widowed when her husband—the dashing French count Jean de Feuillide—is claimed by Madame la Guillotine during the dark days of the Reign of Terror, Eliza is determined to remain indomitable, unpredictable, and unfettered. And it is this passionate spirit that she brings to a simple English country parsonage to influence the life, the work, and the world of her unsuspecting cousin . . . a quiet and unassuming young writer named Jane Austen.
Charles G. West
"Jason Storm has had a career any lawman would be proud of, but now he's ready to take off the badge and begin a peaceful life as a modest cattle rancher. With the help of a generous benefactor, Storm is able to make a fresh start in Paradise Valley. But trouble comes in the form of six outlaws who raid Storm's benefactor, killing him and ambushing his men. After the massacre, the outlaws decide to take over the town. When the sheriff resigns rather than face the gang, and the law in town is represented by a young and inexperienced deputy, Jason Storm had no choice but to climb back in the saddle."--Author's website.
Emily Arnold McCully
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Israel Knohl
"It features the first discussion of the recently discovered text 'The Gabriel Revelation' - an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. This tablet provides revolutionary paths to the understanding of the historical Jesus and the birth of Christianity. It explores the formation of the conception of "catastrophic messianism" in the Gabriel Revelation. According to this conception, the death of a messianic leader and his resurrection by the angel Gabriel after three days is an essential part of the redemptive process. This conception is a new key which enables us for the first time to understand the messianic vision of the historical Jesus. This important and fascinating book will thus shed new and revolutionary light on our basic view of Christianity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Tracy Chevalier
In the windswept coastal town of Lyme Regis, Mary Anning hunts for sea monsters in the jagged cliffs. When she uncovers the fossilized skeleton of an unknown creature, she rocks the scientific world. Alongside Elizabeth Philpot, an intelligent spinster with an eye for fossilized fish, Mary challenges the scientific establishment of 19th-century Britain.
David Leavitt
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy – eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age – receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time. Hardy determines to learn more about this mysterious Indian clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, and populated with such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, The Indian Clerk fashions from this fascinating period an utterly compelling story about our need to find order in the world.
Martin A. Gardner
"The Marx Brothers' films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes. But beneath the laughs is a serious condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners, customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ways in which the films were relevant in their era and today"--Provided by publisher.
Michael Landon, Jr. and Cindy Kelley
The 1930s were a decade of enormous uncertainty--for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son. Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief. When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Luke are out on their own in a world that has no room for the poor and disabled. Especially not at a time when most Americans are simply trying to survive their economic woes and job losses.But then arrives The Gift...Where has it come from, and why? How can a young boy who can neither hear nor speak provide comfort, direction, and sometimes challenges to seekers who learn of the special ability? Whatever the source, its presence brings a single shaft of light and hope to Mary and her beloved Luke. Will it be enough?
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the Man Booker Prize. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat away from disaster if King Henry VIII dies without a male heir. Enter Thomas Cromwell, a pragmatic blacksmith's son who orchestrates the seismic breach with Rome.
Kip Gayden
Based on actual events, Anna Dotson is a passionate modern woman of the 1900s who finds herself stifled by the lingering outdated rules of Victorian society. When her every attempt to rekindle romance and affection with her husband--a prominent local doctor--fails, she finds herself turning to the friendship of Charlie Cobb, a new man in town. But as their relationship becomes more intimate, smalltown tongues start wagging, and their starcrossed affair leads to a shocking public murder.
Syrie James
Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life—finally, the truth may have been found. . . .What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered after hundreds of years? What if those pages revealed the untold story of a life-changing love affair? That's the premise behind this spellbinding novel, which delves into the secrets of Jane Austen's life, giving us untold insights into her mind and heart.Jane Austen has given up her writing when, on a fateful trip to Lyme, she meets the well-read and charming Mr. Ashford, a man who is her equal in intellect and temperament. Inspired by the people and places around her, and encouraged by his faith in her, Jane begins revising Sense and Sensibility, a book she began years earlier, hoping to be published at last.Deft and witty, written in a style that echoes Austen's own, this unforgettable novel offers a delightfully possible scenario for the inspiration behind this beloved author's romantic tales. It's a remarkable book, irresistible to anyone who loves Jane Austen—and to anyone who loves a great story.
Inessa Medzhibovskaya
"The first book-length study on the subject in any language, Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time treats Tolstoy's experience not as a conversion moment but as the evolution of his religious outlook over half a lifetime. Inessa Medzhibovskaya bases her discussion on Tolstoy's religious ongoing dialogue with the tradition of conversion in Europe and Russia, from Saint Paul to Dostoevsky, while thoroughly reexaming several of his major works from this perspective: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Il'ich, A Confession, and On Life." "Medzhibovskaya emphasizes Tolstoy's openness to diverse intellectual currents such as German romantic philosophy, the natural sciences, and the historical school of Christianity, and argues that the major landmarks of Tolstoy's spiritual evolution occurred spontaneously, deliberately, and sincerely. The polyphony and autonomy of discreet spiritual moments that Tolstoy created by fusing his narratives of conversion with the religious and artistic realms is arguably his greatest contribution to spiritual autobiography."--BOOK JACKET.
Janet Paisley
Anne Farquharson is a Highland girl - tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of English King George, while there are rumours that Bonnie Prince Charlie, exiled to France, is raising an army in a bid for the throne.When Anne marries a clan chief and creates a shaky alliance, she is doing more than taking his bed. Soon she is drawn into the heart of a brutal and bloody conflict, and as the Jacobite rebellion escalates, she and her husband find themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield. White Rose Rebel is inspired by the true story of a Highland heroine who risked everything for her country and its rightful king.
Shawna Yang Ryan
A mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928, weaving history and mythology around the lives of the townspeople and the ghosts who haunt themLocke, CA, 1928— Three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River, and their arrival throws the community into confusion. Two of the women are unknown to the townspeople, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the local gambling parlor, who had left her behind in China many years earlier and had not yet returned for her.Richard's wife's unexpected arrival complicates his life in no small way—not least with two prostitutes at the local brothel he frequents. One, the beautiful young Chloe, depends on him but has eyes for someone else, someone even more forbidden—the local preacher's daughter. The other, Poppy, the psychic madam of the brothel, is desperately in love with him, and she begins to sink into despair as he grows further and further away from her.As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, Poppy's premonitions begin to foretell a deep unhappiness for all involved. And when a flood threatens the livelihood of the entire town, the frightening power of these mysterious women who arrived in the mist will be revealed.Shawna Yang Ryan's melodic first novel is a passionate, sophisticated intertwining of fact and fiction that examines mingling cultures, modern myths, and forgotten history. Locke 1928 beautifully chronicles separation and betrayal, loneliness and longing, and what happens when a Chinese ghost story begins to come true.
Charles E. Rosenberg
Historian of medicine Rosenberg presents an analysis of the current tensions in American medicine. Situating these tensions within their historical and social contexts, Rosenberg investigates the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think about disease, how the medical profession thinks about itself and its moral and intellectual responsibilities, and what prospective patients--all of us--expect from medicine and the medical profession. He explores the nature and definition of disease and how ideas of disease causation reflect social values and cultural negotiations. His analyses of alternative medicine and bioethics consider the historically specific ways in which we define and seek to control what is appropriately medical. At a time when clinical care and biomedical research generate as much angst as they offer cures, this volume provides valuable insight into how the practice of medicine has evolved, where it is going, and how lessons from history can improve its prognosis.--From publisher description.
Jean M. Auel
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Amanda Elyot
Emma Hamilton is renowned as the real-life heroine of the greatest love story in British history. Now, Amanda Elyot breathes new life into this remarkable woman, in what might have been Emma's very own words.The impoverished daughter of an illiterate country farmer, young Emily Lyon sold coal by the roadside to help put food on the family's table. By the time she was fifteen, she had made her way from London nursemaid to vivacious courtesan, and continued a meteoric rise through society, rung by slippery rung, to become the most talked-about woman in all of Europe, mistress of many tongues, a key envoy in Britain's and Italy's war against the French, and confidante to a queen.This novel, inspired by her remarkable life, recounts Emma's many extraordinary adventures, the earth-shattering passion she eventually found with Lord Nelson, and how they braved the censure of king and country, risking all in the name of true love.
Ken Follett
Two centuries after the completion of Kingsbridge Cathedral, four children witness a lethal secret in the forest. Decades later, they find their town ravaged by the Black Plague and church authoritarianism.
Hella S. Haasse
Een Nederlandse theeplanter isoleert zich aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw steeds verder op zijn afgelegen theeplantage op Java.
Bill Brooks
A talented healer forced to become a fugitive for a killing he wasn't responsible for, Jake Horn found sanctuary in the rough Dakota town of Sweet Sorrow -- and in the tin badge that marks him as the local law. Now his discovery of a dead ranch hand is bringing his demons home.As a doctor and a sheriff, Jake's witnessed death in all its dark guises -- and he recognizes a murder when he sees one. But asking too many questions of the wrong people is asking for trouble, and suddenly expert killers are gathering with their sights on a lawman who's got a need to see justice done. The big gundown is coming, as relentlessly as the winter snow whipping across the prairie. And there's nowhere for a good man to hide when five shooters blinded by hate won't leave Sweet Sorrow until he's dead.
Laurie R. King
Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes are back in Laurie R. King's highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling mystery series. This time the first couple of detection travel to San Francisco to unlock the buried memory of a shocking crime with the power to kill again - lost somewhere in Russell's past.