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Daughter of Fortune is a sweeping portrait of an era, a story rich in character, history, violence, and compassion.

The Dream Swimmer continues the odyssey of Tama Mahana, grandson and heir to the matriarch, as he assumes the mantle of leadership and, with it, his grandmother's battles with the Pakeha.

In 1909, in the remote Alpine village of Rosenau, the postmistress has gathered a group of village women to solve a problem.

In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never met, an Australian actor gradually pieces together the strange life story of the writer whose house he is living i

Surrounded by the lake that gives the school its name, steeped in history and overflowing with the emotions of teenage girls, Heart Lake guards its past - but cannot keep it hidden.

In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train.

The Sacred Hill rises above the land, drawing men to it like a beacon. But the men who come each have their own reason, their own dreams.

Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when

From modest beginnings, Willy and Abby Jennings have built the life of their dreams with their five-year-old daughter who they love beyond measure.

Seventeen-year-old Roland discovers that an unpopular girl in his school is studying alchemy and finds that their destiny is linked with that of a power-hungry magician.

In 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease -a degenerative neurological condition.

Investigating his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance, Will Klein learns that she is somehow tied to his brother's death, and he becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes that eve

November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast.

Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich.