Investigating the twenty-five-year-old murder of the wife of a gubernatorial candidate, Montana detective Phoebe Siegel finds her life threatened by what she learns and confronts dramatic changes in her personal life.

Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself up against a killer who hids his crimes with fire

The author of "The Female Eunuch" examines parent-child relationships in the West, Middle East, India, and Africa and explores the possibility that Western culture hates its children and takes little pleasure from family life

#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense classic. An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult task. But as she sorts through conflicting forensic clues, Gault claims his next victim. He has infiltrated the FBI’s top secret artificial-intelligence system developed by Scarpetta’s niece, and sends taunting messages as his butchery continues, moving terrifyingly closer to Scarpetta herself.

An examination of the Nancy Drew stories and their influence on American girlhood since the 1930s explores mysteries related to the character's creators, and her role in shaping the modern American woman's identity.

Between 1973 and 1984, sixty-one countries participated in a ground-breaking survey of human fertility organized by the World Fertility Survey (WFS). By interviewing thousands of women between the ages of 15 and 49, the WFS made available for the first time a survey of this size and scope.This volume follows the cycle of the monumental project--from the design and execution of the survey through the analyses and dissemination of results to the implications for future approaches and government policies.

Traces the development of human personality from infancy to old age, paying attention to occupational choice, marital adjustment, and parenthood

Details the public and private lives of Margaret Scott Olmsted, revealing her enormous contributions to the expansion of world peace that included the foundation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other valiant endeavors.

The diary of an ordinary woman of the early twentieth century documents the life of an outspoken feminist who struggled with the conflicts of career, marriage, children, sexuality, and spirituality

The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car lead medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Pete Marino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group. 1,200,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

"A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence.Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!' " -from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.

When Helene Stapinski was just five years old, her grandfather tried to kill her entire family. A dramatic memory, yet commonplace in Helene's family - in 1922 her great-grandfather murdered her great-grandmother, and even her daily bread was stolen. These stories are part of Helene's heritage.