When youre diagnosed with cancer, its easy to lose hope.Cathy Brown knows: In June 1989, she had an unusual skin blemish removed from her right forearm, which led to her being diagnosed with a melanoma.Desperate for knowledge, she visited the Western Australian Cancer Foundation and asked what she could do to prevent the melanoma from spreading. The woman she spoke with said, Theres nothing you can do. You just have to wait and see.Within ten months, the cancer ...

Zora Sullivan has spent years helping others navigate life's darkest valleys. But when a client's ultimate betrayal nearly costs Zora her life-and takes the man she loved most-it leaves her shattered. Grief, anger, and questions that shake the very foundation of her faith bury her heart.Haunted by trauma and imprisoned by pain, Zora struggles to believe healing is possible. Then Victor Edwards enters her life-a gentle soul with a quiet strength and a love that refl...

"Hello, lover.""You're not her. You're not Opal."The True Gentleman burns up the telephone lines searching for the woman who has seen through to his soul. But Opal has left the phone sex trade, her identity a closely guarded secret. Elusiveness is not a quality her admirer prizes, and in his relentless pursuit of his perfect mate, the caller reveals he is no gentleman and soon the Oregon backwoods become a dumping ground for dismembered body parts....

Welcome to the Learning Chair ...It wasn't much of a classroom. Subterranean, for one thing. And devoid of the raucous clamor and gleeful giggles that permeated most schools.This classroom held only one student.She was tied to a chair.And the chair was bolted to the floor.***Waitress Susan Merrick awakens in the hospital, the victim of a savage beating, to discover that her seven-year-old d...

Journey into the CyberDark ...Yoshitomo Tagawa never leaves his room. He lives in reverse, sleeping during the day and staying up at night, connected to a technological world of online games, chat rooms and cybersex. Yoshi, like over one million of Japan's youth, is hikikomori, completely withdrawn from society. When a cunning predator uses the far-reaching tentacles of the Internet to compel the depressed and disillusioned into forming suicide pacts, Yosh...

Come and play in India ...In Cypress Village, Oregon, a serial arsonist holds the residents hostage. Too afraid to leave their homes or fall asleep at night, citizens are frantic for a swift end to the crimes that threaten their tourism, properties, livelihoods and lives. With the advent of a long, dry summer, Lieutenant Carolyn Latham desperately strives to capture a malicious criminal who is always one step ahead of the law.Across the globe, in isolated a...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet's Chile & Easter Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Strap on your pack and hike through winding forests to behold the granite mountain spires of Las Torres; watch sunset turn the Valle de la Luna intense purple, gold, pink and yellow; and puzzle over the giant statues of Easter Island. ...

What would a frog want for Christmas? He would need a Santa to fill his wish list. What about other creatures like squirrels, camels and fish? Read this book and you will see what each creature would ask for Christmas if he or she only had a Santa too.

Robert Browning's classic adventure ballad. Three riders set off from Ghent to bring urgent news to Aix. They ride furiously through the night and the next day. Only one completes the journey and saves the fate of the town.

Frances Browne (1816-1879) was an Irish poet and novelist who is best remembered for her enchanting stories for children, published under the title of Granny's Wonderful Chair. The collection tells the story of Snowflower, a little girl left alone in the world with a magical chair belonging to her absent grandmother, which can take her wherever she wants to go and can tell her marvellous stories. She sets off and reaches the castle of a troubled king, where the nightly tales told by the ma...

Robert Browning's classic tale about a magical rat catcher. When Hamelin is overrun by rats, only the magical music of the Pied Piper can solve the problem. The town council tries to trick the piper out of his agreed reward, and he wreaks terrible revenge.

A modern, brashly flavorful guide to cooking Taiwanese-American food, from Brooklyn’s lauded Win Son, Win Son Bakery, and Cathy Erway, celebrated writer and expert on the cuisineJosh Ku, born in Queens to parents from southern Taiwan, and Trigg Brown, a native Virginian whose mentor was a Taiwanese-American chef, forged a friendship over food—specifically, excellent tsang ying tou, or "flies’ head," a dish of chopped budding chives kissed with pork fat. Their obses...