Bloomsbury

Reissued&'My Name is Esther Fisher and I&'m about to walk out on the only man I&'ve ever loved...&'Esther has been angry all her life - angry with her impossible parents, and at a world that just won&'t play by the rules. Now working as a tabloid journalist, she takes up the fight once more - this time on behalf of a couple who are being evicted...

Every year, the race to grow the biggest pumpkin in the world draws a rowdy crowd of obsessive gardeners to county fairs and weigh-offs across the country. The competition is furious; there’s sabotage and treachery and the heartbreak of root rot, and many a weigh-off ends in tears. This year, more than just the grand prize is at stake. The...

The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their civilization existed well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and though theories abound, no one has ever been able to determine their origins. Their ancient tongue, Euskera, is equally mysterious: It is the oldest living European...

The Cross family’s new nanny is perfect. A natural with children, a whiz in the kitchen, and a gifted painter, the only thing Miss Washington can’t seem to do is make a mistake. But thanks to Stuart Cross’s artistic ambitions, his wife Andie’s mounting paranoia, and the nanny’s smitten ex-boyfriend, what should be domestic...

Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn’t stop her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe, Asia, and Africa and America, Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about your ancestors, no matter where they had the...

For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "e;outsider physicists,"e; many without formal training and all convinced that they have found true alternative theories of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy...