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While on a singles tour of Europe, Seattle's own Pia Thomason is looking for a man and trying not to think about her 40th birthday. Too bad her choice of suitors is less than appealing.

An extremely successful author named Kloster and an unnamed, up-andcoming writer have one thing in common--they've both employed a typist named Luciana.

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forev

Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings are stolen from a museum in Boston, and are never recovered.

The ruthless Batu Khan has forged an empire across Mongolia and central Asia.

The hilarious story of Fanny Hill and her erotic exploits in London shocked the religious and literary hierarchy, who condemned the book, thus immediately increasing demand for it.

The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fuchau with cargo 200 Chinese coolies on board.

London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens.

A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals, finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

In this classic, Professor Challenger summons Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and E.D. Malone to his sitting room with one unusual request: bring your own oxygen.

Have Holmes and Watson finally met their match in the dreaded Molly McGuires and the diabolical Moriarity?

Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.

The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery.

Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice.