Written in the form of a conversation with himself, Michael Frensch addresses and answers essential questions about Valentin Tomberg's individuality, work and impact on the 20th century. This helps to clarify many of the misconceptions and misunderstandings about Tomberg. He starts by describing the life experiences arising from his encounter with the life and the work of Valentin Tomberg and how this shaped his destiny. He recounts the circumstances that led him to translate the Meditatio...

An awkward girl's account of inexperience, sexual mishaps, and too much tequila...Needing a change, Rayne Meyers—a.k.a. Calamity Rayne—sets out to be a personal assistant for one of the wealthiest families in the world. What could possibly go wrong? Inexperienced with sophisticated settings, she does her best not to screw things up too severely, except there’s one complication she didn’t foresee—her boss’s devastatingly charming son, Hale Davenport.Hale is ...

For many gardeners, trying to establish a garden on clay soil is a difficult and costly exercise. Many plants which do well in other conditions die or fail to thrive when confronted with heavy clay. This informative guide to gardening on clay soils will help save you time and money. It provides specific information on planting, watering and mulching plants in clay conditions and lists both ornamental and edible plants which can grow in clay, with tips on how to grow them successfully.

If there's a problem in the galaxy no one else can fix, the Shadow Order get a call.A team pulled together because of their individual talents, the Shadow Order have little time for rest as they embark on one dangerous mission after the next, fighting volatile creatures on hostile planets.Although when their goals begin to clash with their morals, they start asking questions.Who are they really working for?What’s the link between the seeming...

The newest historical romance series from USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Jess MichaelsWidow Rosalinde Wilde wants only to protect her beloved sister and find out the truth about her mysterious father. It seems she can do both when her sister becomes engaged to an earl, fulfilling their wicked grandfather's desire to see one of them wed above her station. Now Rosalinde is on her way to the wedding when an unexpected storm waylays her at an overcrowded inn. The...

Although inattentive ADHD has now been recognised by the mental health community as a disorder which affects many children and adults, it's difficult to find specific information on this particular form of ADHD. There are many differences between inattentive ADHD and the hyperactive/impulsive form of ADHD, and much of the generic information about "ADHD" isn't particularly helpful for those with the inattentive ADHD. Adults with inattentive ADHD are neither impulsive or hyperactive, but of...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times**An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most ...

From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life.Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northea...

She once ruled the stars—pilot, hacker, covert operative.Now? Sparks is a ghost, drifting through dive bars and forgotten outposts on the edge of known space. Hunted by blood-soaked memories. Haunted by the things she’s done—and the ones she couldn’t save.But this shadow life can’t last forever.When a stranger—half-lit in neon and speaking in partial truths—offers her a way back, Sparks knows better than to trust him. It reeks of a trap. Maybe it is...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author“It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book WorldOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Ente...

From World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Moorcock comes the first book in his famous classic dark fantasy series, Elric of Melniboné, brought to vivid new life with stunning illustrations.In one of the most well-known and well-loved fantasy epics of the 20th century, Elric is the brooding, sickly, albino emperor of the dying Kingdom of Melniboné. With Melniboné’s years of grandeur and decadence long since passed, Elric’s amoral cousin Yrkoon set...

**AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIntroducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.**Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Dete...