The real crisis in medicine today is not about economics, insurance, or managed care--it's about the loss of the fundamental human relationship between doctor and patient. In this wise and passionate book, one of our most eminent...

"Cassandra Williams is twelve, and her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they're alone together, an accident happens and Wayne is lost forever. Or so it seems. Though his body is never recovered, their mother, unable to give...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift-and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now....

"[An] acute and powerful vision . . . offers a renaissance of humane values."-Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Plato called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park."-The Washington Post Book World Back from exile in the...

"Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a life of privilege in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother's strict...

In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves...

His style as playful as ever, Timothy Ferris explores inner as well as outer space in these essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, and their intersection. Other chapters look at comet...

Called a "remarkable story” by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as "very powerful,” Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown's disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."-USA Today • "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."-Entertainment...