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Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before.

Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter many years earlier.

Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to th

It’s 1954 and young Sadie Wilder gets her big break at last – a chance to babysit for the posh Bannister family whose regular babysitter, Wanda Keeler, is down with the mumps.

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevita

Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite.

Lucy, a teenager from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis, Mariah, and their children.

The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.

Natalie DeAngelo lost everything when her two sons were killed in a school shooting. For relief from her loss, she volunteers as a veterinarian on an elephant sanctuary in Thailand.

Living with her mole-obsessed, gun-happy father on a farm, Sally has her work cut out. But with the love of local farm boy Johnny Hutchins, life can be full of frolics.

"According to what we've been told, the source of all knowledge is somewhere just south of Sunset Boulevard.

In a small working-class town, the building of a new dam uproots everyone and everything including the graveyard and those who rest beneath it.