John Gray

"Chase lands in the center of a new mystery when silent messages begin to appear, urging her to help those closest to her who are in peril"-- "From the bestselling author of Manchester Christmas comes a new adventure full of love, generosity, and heart-pounding intrigue. Following the runaway success of her first novel, Chase Harrington is hiding in Manhattan. Assuming the visions from her past are behind her, Chase takes an assignment that lands...

At the heart of human experience lies an obsession with the nature of death. Religion, for most of history, has provided an explanation for human life and a vision of what comes after it. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such beliefs came under relentless pressure as new ideas-from psychiatry to evolution to communism-seemed to suggest that our fate was now in our own hands: humans could cease to be animals, defeat death,...

For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a consumerist, globalized, peaceful future beckoned. The beginning of the twenty-first century has rudely disposed of such ideas-most obviously through 9/11and its aftermath. But, just as damaging has been the rise in the West of a belief that a single model of political behavior will become a worldwide norm and that, if necessary, it will be enforced at gunpoint. In...

John Gray is the acclaimed, bestselling author of many books, including Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Al Qaeda and What It Means To Be Modern, Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings, The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death, and The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths. He is professor emeritus of European thought at the London School of Economics...

En amour, il nous semble parfois que nos partenaires proviennent d'une planète opposée à la ntre. Sous la couette, c'est une évidence, mais nous ne réalisons pas toujours ce qui distingue précisément nos différences. Dans cet enregistrement audio, John Gray, l'auteur du best-seller Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes viennent de Vénus, applique ses connaissances profondes du cœur humain à l'intimité des relations amoureuses. Lorsqu'il...

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by relationship expert Dr. John Gray is a self-help guide to understanding the opposite sex so that romantic relationships can be more fulfilling, healthy, and loving. The key to lasting, successful partnerships is understanding and appreciating gender differences by recognizing that men and women operate so differently that they might as well be from different planets. Men and women think and communicate differently,...

"Vancouver is in an uproar over the death by gunshot of a Scottish nanny, Janet Stewart. An almost deliberately ham-handed police investigation has Constable Hook suspecting a cover-up. The powerful United Council of Scottish Societies is demanding an inquiry. The killing has become a political issue with an election not far away. The city is buzzing with rumours. Miss Stewart's fellow nannies have accused the Chinese houseboy of murder, capitalizing...

"The President's Affair" is a dramatization of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It can be dubbed a "historico-tragi-comedy" and contains elements of all three genres. It is written in Shakespearean metered verse and has many playful allusions to Shakespeare plays. The play is mainly concerned with the human drama, which unfolded in the course of the scandal, with the backdrop of the White House frenzy and the wider acrimonious political context in Washington....

"An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel driving big business, big government-- and major crime. In this spellbinding follow-up to his mystery The White Angel, John MacLachlan Gray captures the spirit of Vancouver in those gritty, gin-soaked days, as the city was remaking itself between wars. Alcohol is once again legal in Vancouver after the failed experiment of prohibition, but pro-temperance...

"I mark this day most especially with a White Stone." ---Lewis Carroll, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll Edmund Whitty, a London newspaper correspondent who can usually be counted upon for crisp and lurid copy, has fallen upon lean times. After his triumphant exposé of a notorious serial killer, he has inexplicably lost his knack for sensational reporting. Broke and desperate, he seizes upon a generous offer from a mysterious American to discredit...