Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would 'unwind' them.

Nineteen-year-old university student, Megan Thompson is beautiful, cool, clever and sexy - the kind of girl boys fall in love with. She's mostly steered clear of family life since the death of her younger brother. That is until the day she hears her mother, Diana, has been found floating face down in their swimming pool.

Written by the author of Jurassic Park , this medical thriller won the USA's Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel. Was it murder, or horribly botched surgery, or was someone in the great Boston medical centre violating the Hippocratic oath? One doctor is willing to seek out the truth.

Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. The author shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.

Dr Susan Wicklund growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, had her own painful abortion at a young age. This work chronicles her emotional twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. It also reveals the truth about the women's clinics that anti-abortion activists portray as little more than slaughterhouses for the unborn.

A well written and researched book on a difficult topic, abortion.

Mary Ann Tierney, aged 15, takes on her own parents and US constitutional law in a bid to protect her future right to bear children. This story plays out the consequences when the media takes people's private lives and turns them into public entertainment.

Set against the distant voices of a country in upheaval, this novel shows two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. The strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly as they take their first, exhilarating steps towards adulthood. By the author of Self Help , Anagrams and Like Life .

Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War.

Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of imaginable propotions has began and Ralph has one chance to beat it. This book is reissued with a new graphic cover style.

When forced to tutor Sarah Gamble in trigonometry, Rhonda Lee recognizes all too well the symptoms - queasiness, puking, and exhaustion - that Sarah is trying to mask. On a sudden impulse, Rhonda shares her past with Sarah. Exchanging their secrets adds up to more truths than either girl would have dreamed.

Aims to convey the stark choices women with unwanted pregnancies faced before abortion was legalised. This book contains stories of illegal back room abortions and harrowing accounts of self-induced miscarriages, as well as the testimony of women who were forced to give birth on society's terms, not their own.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer.

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the US. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power.

Defending Life is the most comprehensive defense of the prolife position on abortion ever published.

Shares details about the author's own life and work in an effort to promote better understanding of the reality of abortion and the violent forces that threaten a woman's right to choose. This work offers readers a view from the clinic operating room as well as information on the abortion pill known as RU 486.