A Critical Look at COVID-19 Public Health Failures and the Influence of Power and Profit on MedicineIt’s been six years since the COVID-19 pandemic threw the world into organized chaos. And though the masks are largely gone, the plexiglass has been taken down, and even as we have returned to normalcy in many senses of the word, nobody can deny that everything has changed.Herein lies the heart of the issue: How exactly did the CDC and other supposed...

As part of Busted, Matt Willis played to the biggest crowds, toured the world, and was the wild and daring face of noughties pop. But when the shows were over there was always something else on his mind - alcohol, drugs and keeping the party going.Twenty years later, Matt has forged a career as a solo musician, actor, presenter and podcast host. He's happily married to presenter Emma Willis, with three amazing children, and has been clean and sober for eight years. He is in recover...

'A beautiful and heartbreaking story of love, war, friendship, family secrets and the choices that can change lives forever' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A forgotten mansion. A wartime secret. What lies behind the door of the Cornish house?Cornwall, 1944: As her beloved brother fights the Nazis in Europe, Mary Trewallis works tirelessly on the makeshift hospital wards for injured servicemen that have taken over her family's grand anc...

Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Me...

How can you know something is real—especially when you can't see it?Hope and Joy are eight-year-old twins who love asking big questions. When kids at school say believing in God is silly, the girls begin to wonder: what if their classmates are right?With gentle encouragement from Mom and Dad—and the playful antics of their dog, Rufus—the twins begin to piece together clues in the world around them that point to something bigger than themselves.And a...

This vivid late-19th-century biography follows William Tecumseh Sherman from his New England and Ohio family roots to the end of his long public life, presenting him as both a product of American heredity and a force who helped reshape the nation. Introduced and reviewed by Major General O. O. Howard, the book draws on letters, reports, editorials, and eyewitness testimony to create a richly illustrated "graphic history" of war, duty, and national service. Sherman's story moves from boyhoo...

“Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel.Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the twenty-first century and...

Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk—a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes as one young woman abruptly finds herself with way more connectivity than she ever desired.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRIn the ...

Francie is a reluctant Maid of Honor, for several reasons.The first is that her friend Serena has terrible taste in men. Previous fiancés have included a storm-chaser, a shaman and a kamikaze base-jumper. This is the closest a wedding has come to happening, and it's to a UFO-chaser.The second is that, as a result, the wedding is being held in New Mexico. In Roswell. During the UFO festival.After a series of travel disasters that end with her car sharing with another...

A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica t...

A terrible accident. A gruesome murder. A litter of orphaned cubs.Illegal poachers on the Oregon Coast orphan a litter of rare white mountain lion cubs. At the big cat sanctuary, the cubs’ very existence puts their rescuers in peril. Darkness looms over the seaside hamlet of Grady when the sanctuary director is violently murdered and the cubs go missing.But reluctant medium Suri is plagued with doubt and remorse after a tragic car wreck le...

BLACKOUT is the opening movement of a vast, absorbing two-volume novel that may well prove to be Connie Willis' masterpiece. Like her multi-award winning THE DOOMSDAY BOOK, this stunning new work marries the intricate mechanics of time travel to the gritty - and dangerous - realities of human history.The narrative opens in Oxford, England in 2060, where a trio of time traveling scholars prepares to depart for various corners of the Second World War. Their mission: to observe, from ...