William Hope

Adrian the Undertaker, a gloomy and silent man, doesn't have many friends. Nevertheless he decides to throw a party and invites only his favourite people: his deceased clientele.

Unwrap Christmas cheer with Thomas & Friends. Percy delivers Santa's Christmas letters while Marion discovers a talking Christmas tree! Glynn the coffeepot engine gets restored for the holidays and races against Stephen. Annie & Clarabel learn that two wrongs don't make a right, while Donald & Douglas have double trouble. Have a holly, jolly Christmas with Thomas and his friends!

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the original fabulous stars, and many were enthralled by their illicit romance, two tempestuous marriages, frequent break-ups and extravagant reunions. This is the story of the first celebrity couple. Beyond alcohol, pills and the trappings of fame, was love the ultimate crutch that allowed them to escape the realities of their extraordinary lives? Funny, glamorous, tempestuous and dripping with diamonds -...

"With Russia on the brink of nuclear annihilation, there's only one man who can save it: The Marksman (Snipes). An elite U.S. Special Forces operative, he's been ordered to take out a Chechen nuclear power plant befor terrorists set off a live reactor. Infilitrating the heavily-guarded facility, The Marksman indicates the target for an American missile strike and makes his escape. But when he discovers it's the missiles and not the terrorists that'll...

"Ben Koenig used to head the US Marshal’s elite Special Operations Group. His team hunted the bad guys—the really bad guys, and he could find anyone. Then one day Koenig himself disappeared. Koenig has been on the run for six years. Now suddenly his face is on every television screen in the country and his cover is blown. A woman has gone missing, and her father will do anything to find her. He wants Koenig to discover what happened, no matter...

"How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society"--Provided by publisher.

Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping--Darwinian...

National bestselling author and teacher Steve Hagen strips away the cultural and religious jargon surrounding meditation and provides an accessible and thorough manual for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike. Inside you will find: • Simple practices to avoid needlessly complicating meditation • Where most of us get stuck in meditation-and how to get unstuck • A unique focus on meditation not simply as a spiritual technique, but as...

Zane Grey fished up to 300 days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really BIG fish-the giants of the sea. Blue fin tuna are (even today) still sometimes pursued with harpoons! There's the story of a swordfish that was hooked at 10:30 in the morning and played until 11:30 that night-only to...! “Tales of Swordfish and Tuna” will dazzle and thrill any fishing heart.

In the sequel to the terrifying science fiction thriller, One Way, returning home from Mars may mean striking a deal with the very people who abandoned him. They were sent to build a utopia, but all they found on Mars was death. Frank Kitteridge has been abandoned. But XO, the greedy--and ultimately murderous--corporate architects of humanity's first Mars base made a costly mistake when they left him there: they left him alive. Using his skills...