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Sixteen year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder.

In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel.

Ingrid Langley and her husband and colleague Patrick Gillard, late of MI5 and now working for the Serious and Organized Crime Agency, decide to holiday in Bath.

Charley Noonan, a rough-tongued young farmer, has been pursuing Christine Summers, a pretty young teacher in a country school in the 1930s, for years.

The current and 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, inspires perennial fascination.

A legendary beauty and outback identity by the time she was 20. She handled snakes, horses and trucks in her fifty years behind the bar, and she could spin a yarn with the best of them.

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga.

Most readers know Jane Brody as a staunch advocate of living a healthy life, to the fullest. But even the healthiest of lives end.

A Darkness at Sethanon is the third and final book in The Riftwar Saga.

Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the WWII.

"With more than 3 million copies sold, the #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a special gift edition.

COPING WITH ILLNESS. While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down.

Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.

"Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L.