Patricia Wallace: 17 books

An engaging and research-based text, The Psychology of the Internet provides a balanced overview of the psychological aspects of cyberspace. It explores crucial questions about the internet's effects on human behavior, such as why we often act in uncharacteristic ways in online environments and how...

Next to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, no other place on Earth holds as much esoteric symbolism as France's Rennes le Ch'teau. Its location and design are the subjects of countless rumors, myths, and legends. Mysteries of Templar Treasure and the Holy Grail, formerly published as The Secrets of Rennes...

Dr. Alan Kramer's clinic is the last resort for people with terminal illnesses. Through Kramer's innovative procedures and the use of a unique liquid called Affinity--designed to harness the healing powers of the brain--his patients recover completely. Is it a medical miracle? Or is the cure deadlier than the disease?

Hannah was the prettiest little girl that the town had ever laid eyes on -- so sweet, so innocent, so angelic, so they thought. All anyone ever knew about Hannah was that she was the sole survivor of a horrible plane crash that by all rights should have killed everyone in the plane, and all Hannah...

Eight year old Bronwyn knew she wasn't like other girls. She didn't have a mother. At least not a real one. Her mother had been in a coma at the hospital for as long as Bronwyn could remember. She couldn't feel any pain, her father said, it was just like sleeping -- only she never woke up. But on...

For young Caryn Dearborne, the cornea operation enabled her to see more than just light and shadow for the first time. For Todd Reynolds, it was his chance to run and play like other little boys. For these two children, the sudden death of another child had been the miracle they had been waiting for....

Ocean of Death Seven-year-old Kelly had always loved to romp in the surf of California's endless summer. Then tragedy struck--a sailboat accident which took the lives of her parents and her sister Melissa. Now Kelly felt drawn to the sea for a different reason. She knew her sister wasn't really gone....

It was an amusement park like no other in the world. A tri-level marvel of modern technology enhanced by the special effects wizardry of holograms, lasers, and advanced robotics. The brainstorm of billionaire developer Sheldon Rice, The Park catered to the luxury market of jet-setters, celebrities,...

From the day she brought her babies home, Morgan sensed they were closer to each other than to her. As they grew, their strange games began to disturb her, their whispered secrets to unnerve her, their malicious pranks to anger her. But it wasn't until their innocent eyes became twin mirrors of evil...

Eight-year-old Abigail was used to cold, uncaring doctors, domineering nurses, the unceasing round of pain and suffering. But from the day she was admitted to Valley Memorial's newly opened children's ward, she felt a sense of terror... At night the walls seemed to ooze with something dark...

He was a salty old sailor, weather-beaten superstitious and in desperate need of money. So he sold three pints of his pure red blood -- and the horror began... First, the brutally mutilated bodies of a honeymooning couple are found at a campsite. Next, a highly reliable nurse commits suicide during...

When Brian Clifford was brought into the Emergency Room of Coastline Hospital, a victim of a cerebral hemorrhage, the doctors did everything they could to save him. The situation appeared to be hopeless. Then it happened. Brian Clifford awakened. Disoriented and weak, there was something about him...

Jill Baker was such a pretty little girl, with long, honey-blond hair and haunting gray-green eyes. Just one look at her angelic features could dispel all the nasty rumors that had been spreading around town. Like the crazy old country doctor's story about Jill's mother vanishing right in front of...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...