Galaxies present a unique challenge to town dwellers. Amateur astronomers can't use narrowband filters to shut out light pollution or use ordinary techniques as they would in dark, open fields. As one can imagine, this discrepancy with light means not everyone who looks up at the night sky is capable of seeing all it has to offer. What a shame!Author Jane Clark, however, has spent two years going down blind alleys trying to get a technique to work to combat the amateur astronomer's...

For the woman who has been everything to everyone-except herself.You've held families together. You've swallowed words to keep the peace. You've quieted your own needs for years. And still, the world calls you "too sensitive," "too emotional," or "too much."This workbook is a reclamation. A space to unravel. A place to be loud on the page when life demands you be quiet in person.Written by a woman walking her own path through silence, self-erasure, and the slow work...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book shows readers how to calculate the orbit of Mars, based on their own observations and using observations made by the author. The historical, observational, and analytical aspects of the project to measure the orbit of Mars are all combined in this one book!Determining the orbit of Mars is particularly important, as originally solving this problem required the founding of modern science. Clark discusses how people came to believe in the Newtonian model of the Solar System,...

Viewing and Imaging the Solar System: A Guide for Amateur Astronomers is for those who want to develop their ability to observe and image Solar System objects, including the planets and moons, the Sun, and comets and asteroids. They might be beginners, or they may have already owned and used an astronomical telescope for a year or more.Newcomers are almost always wowed by sights such as the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter, but have little idea how to find these ob...

“Clark has perfected the suspense novel.”—BooklistNew York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television anchor Eliza Blake (Dying for Mercy, It Only Takes a Moment), To Have and To Kill introduces readers to actress-turned-wedding cake decorator Piper Do...

That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary French Quarter.Aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan has barely arrived in New Orleans to perfect her pastry skills at the renowned French Quarter bakery, Boulangerie Bertrand, when a ghastly murder ro...

“One of the most talented story tellers around.”—Associated Press“Clark has perfected the suspense novel…in classic Christie fashion.”—BooklistNew York Times bestseller Mary Jane Clark introduced readers to professional wedding cake decorator and amateur sleuth Piper Donavan in her acclaimed mystery novel To Have and To Kill. Piper’s back in The Look of Love, on cake creating assignment at a West Coast luxury spa fo...

“[Clark] deftly combines the clue-searching and puzzle-solving fun of mysteries with the action-packed, emotion-driven narrative thrust of thrillers.”—Pittsburgh Tribune Review“One of Clark’s—and the genre’s—best.”—Associated PressA very suspicious death and a sprawling mansion with secrets and puzzles built into the very architecture are among the elements that make Dying for Mercy an unputdownable mystery. The third riveting thri...

The paperback edition of the second book in Mary Jane Clark’s New York Times bestselling series.SELLING POINTS• Mary Jane Clark is a household name. Her books consistently place on the New York Times bestseller list and the hardcover edition was no exception.• Mary Jane Clark writes great stories. Her suspense is thrilling and her characters leap off the page.• With more than three decades of working in broadcast television...

Watch your back. Trust no one. And when a killer closes in, hide yourself away.It should have been an ideal week during a perfect summer in "America's First Resort." But just hours before the KEY News crew arrives for their broadcasts from Newport, Rhode Island, the skeleton of a socialite who disappeared fourteen years ago is found in a dank tunnel beneath a famous mansion.It doesn't end there. Next, the socialite's daughter is found at the bottom of the Forty Steps that lea...