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Your friends neglect to RSVP to your party invitation . . . co-workers munch their pungent meals near your office . . . pedestrians shout into their cell phones and practically knock you to the pavement.Wishing that friends, family, colleagues, and oblivious strangers would mind their manners is lov... More

This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades. The result has been that explorations of how texts address, elicit, shape, and dramatize affect have become central to contemporary work in l... More

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe clas... More

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52, a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master story-teller Nelson DeMille and... More

Named by the proprietors from Gloucester, Massachusetts, New Gloucester began as a frontier town, as it was the most inland settlement in Maine at the time. Incorporated in 1774, the town has been called home by such notables as mapmaker and author Moses Greenleaf, artist D. D. Coombs, original prop... More

Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: THE ITALIAN'S CHRISTMAS SECRETOne Night With Consequencesby Sharon Kendrick When chauffeur Keira Ryan drives into a snowdrift, she and Matteo Valenti must find a hotel—and end up spending one sizzling n... More

Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes:A VIRGIN TO REDEEM THE BILLIONAIREBy Dani CollinsRuthless billionaire Kaine has just given Gisella a shocking ultimatum: use her spotless reputation to save his own or he’ll ruin her family for betraying h... More

Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! This Presents bundle includes Playing by the Greek's Rule by USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan, The Sultan's Harem Bride by USA TODAY bestselling author Annie West, Innocent in His Diamonds by Maya Blake and Claimed by the Sh... More

A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now exiled in Vienna, Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde looks b... More

This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on the practical that distinguis... More

The ability to read published research critically is essential and is different from the skills involved in undertaking research using statistical analysis. This New Edition of Thomas R Black's best-selling text explains in clear and straightforward terms how students can evaluate research, with par... More

This original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on the practical that distinguish... More

In the comprehensive <i>The New Testament: Its Background and Message</i>, the late Thomas Lea presented a clear and concise introduction to the New Testament giving readers the key that unlocks the door to understanding these important texts. This influential work presents the background of the New... More

Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics—and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among... More

2016 Top Ten Gay Romancebrings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.From first love to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to keep you turning the pages as you fall in love with... More

Junctures in Women’s Leadership: Health Care and Public Health offers an eclectic compilation of case studies telling the stories of women leaders in public health and health care, from Katsi Cook, Mohawk midwife, to Virginia Apgar, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Florence Schorske Wald, to Marilyn T... More

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences dras... More

Jack of Newbury is an incisive yet remarkably entertaining work of narrative prose—and one that was extremely popular when it was published in the 1590s. The title character, an apprentice weaver, marries his former master’s wife, expands her cloth business into an enormous enterprise, refuses Henry... More

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made d... More

Chilling works of literary noir: “Hopler has tracked down a remarkable number of hit-man stories by a remarkable collection of authors.” —New York Press This unique collection of writings about hired killers includes stories, screenplays, and even poems—plus an appendix listing hit-man films. In... More

Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout&’s legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.   If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout f... More

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More

Partenariats improbables, tome 1L'inspecteur Douglas Heavy Runner, après quelques années de liberté sexuelle à Miami, a dû retourner dans son Montana natal, dans la réserve indienne de Salish-Kootenai. Il est depuis deux ans adjoint du shérif d'Elkin, petite ville conservatrice et étroite d'esprit. ... More

Bryan fantasme sur les cow-boys depuis toujours. Il porte même un costume que son colocataire surnomme son « piège à cow-boy » quand il va à son club préféré, dans l’espoir d’attirer l’attention d’un véritable rancher. Le jour où Curtis lui offre une bière, Bryan n’a aucun doute que ça y est, c’est ... More

Partenariats improbables, tome 2Quand son cousin, un tueur, fait irruption chez lui au milieu de la nuit, l’inspecteur Ray Delgado récapitule une fois de plus les raisons qui l’ont poussé à rompre les ponts avec sa famille. Ray est censé retrouver Sophia, la sœur d’Alejandro, avant que le FBI s’int... More