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Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and long-banished--butler, unaware that he d

Maggie runs a group that dubs voices for movies. She spends much of her time fending off her three pushy daughters, and gets her kicks with her far older Sicilian lover.

The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four!

After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation.

Hoping to get away, a man suffering from writer's block washes up at the rundown Hotel Honolulu, where he becomes the manager after the hotel's boozy owner fires himself.

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) fought to free Algeria from French rule and rallied against the oppressive grip of colonialism.

Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career.

Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.

Jack, Baron Warnefleet, narrowly avoids marriage when he flees London for the refuge of his estate. But there waits Lady Clarice Altwood, whose beauty is impossible to ignore.

Viscount Torrington is the hottest commodity in town as London's matchmaking season begins.

Tristan, fourth Earl of Trentham, laments his return to England after so much adventure during the Napoleonic Wars.

The distinguished veterans of the Bastion Club represent England's finest eligible bachelors.

Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is.

Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah.

After an influential supporter of deaf education is found dead, NYPD Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy quickly determines the slain man--an advocate of eugenics--was bludgeoned with a trophy.