Foreign Bodies

Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's _The Ambassadors_ --the work he considered his best--but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the co

### From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Cook (*Critical*) stumbles in this formulaic thriller about the timely subject of medical tourism, the trend in which U.S. citizens seek to save costs on expensive surgery through treatment overseas. At the center of the drama is Jennifer Hernandez, a fourth-ye

Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA whose world is shattered during an otherwise ordinary day. While half-listening to a news report on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery, she hears her beloved grandmother's name mentioned,

### From Publishers Weekly _Starred Review._ In volume eight of Cherryh's masterful Foreigner sequence (_Destroyer_ , etc.), Tabini, the deposed ruler of the _atevi_ home world, represents humanity's best hope of survival on this alien planet and the _atevi_ 's own best chance of maintaining indep

With a new introduction by the author The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, *Foreigner* begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the *Fo

The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fi